Mary Earps on England farewells and giving back: 'I want to leave the game in a better place than where I found it'

Mary Earps is approached casually, calmly and with visible triumph. Someone’s sister is a goalkeeper. Cousin. Themselves. They’ve saved a goal. Two goals. A penalty. They did that thing where they leap to the right but save the shot with their left toe. One of them roared like her. “All of which could be a total lie,” qualifies the Paris Saint-Germain and former England No 1 as she recalls a trip to the shops in Manchester last Friday.Advertisement