Piers Morgan in fresh savage Mary Earps attack as he brands save from 'worst penalty in World Cup history'
Piers Morgan has delivered yet another brutal jibe at Mary Earps, branding her World Cup Final spot kick save as coming from the “worst penalty in World Cup history”.
His savage social media dig comes after the media pundit cased a storm of controversy for questioning the merit of the Manchester United and England goalkeeper winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award earlier this week. Earps won it thanks to a public vote following a brilliant year, saving a penalty in the Lionesses World Cup Final defeat to Spain and winning the tournament's Golden Glove award.
Earps saved a penalty in the final from Jennifer Hermoso in the final and ITV shared a clip of it on Twitter, saying: “We had to bring back this legendary moment in honour of that well deserved BBCSPOTY.” But Morgan hit back with this reply: “Saving the worst penalty in World Cup history?”
It comes after Morgan said on Tuesday when she got the award: "Trying to get my head around two of England's women footballers winning BBC SPOTY in successive years… while male sporting superstars with great personalities like Rory McIlroy, Frankie Dettori and Ronnie O'Sullivan have never won it. No offence to Ms Earps, but shouldn't it have been given to someone who actually won something in 2023? It comes after Beth Mead won it last year.
That saw him earn criticism for going “full Joey Barton” after the Rangers flop’s recent criticism of female pundits in football. But Morgan followed up his public criticism with another dig on his recent episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, his talkTV show. He said: “Mary Earps seems a thoroughly decent human being with bags of personality and is an excellent women's goalkeeper, playing for England at the peak of her career,"
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