"Let's talk about you. How do you feel you've conducted yourself during the past few days? How would you rate your words and actions? To what extent do they stack up against your own personal morals and values? When the time comes to write the chronicle of the Great Mary Earps Book Furore of late 2025 a chronicle that, on reflection, Earps should probably not attempt to write herself what will they say of your role?"
"Will they say you carried yourself with dignity and class? Or will they say you spent your time lapping up the hectares of coverage, revelling in the drama, indulging in the discourse, firing off bombs in the group chat, furiously scrolling your feed, expressing blunt and forthright views about people you've almost certainly never met? This has, after all, been one of the main incongruities of the whole affair."
Mary Earps's new autobiography and the resulting fallout triggered intense public attention, speculation, and division within women's football. Questions arise about individual conduct: how people feel they have acted, how they would rate their words and actions, and whether behaviour aligns with personal morals and values. Many profess regret at the controversy while continuing to consume and amplify it, reveling in drama and tribal disputes. The episode exposes an incongruity between stated dismay and evident enjoyment of spectacle, with feuding figures, clashing egos and online escalation becoming the focal point rather than the sport itself.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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