For a player who relied on a second chance from England head coach Sarina Wiegman to set her career on the path to worldwide success and stardom, Mary Earps should be best placed to understand most what it's like to be brought back in from the cold.

Surely in most walks of life, people should be given the opportunity to amend for past mistakes and given the chance to flourish in their chosen careers?

Which is why it makes Earps' revealing comments in her soon-to-be-released autobiography 'All In', which lifts the lid on tensions with England No 1 Hannah Hampton, all the more surprising and disappointing and has led to a backlash on social media.

Earps said she felt Wiegman was "rewarding bad behaviour" for recalling Hampton. Hampton, then 21 years old, had been left out of the Lionesses

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