England goalkeeper Mary Earps receives MBE at Windsor Castle

OK. Mary, Are you ready? OK, nice and near see your eye line if you could. That’s perfect. Keep smiling. A bit closer. Thank you. And in him. Sorry, sorry. I’m just in here, please. Thank you and again. Very congratulations. Thank you. What does it mean to you professionally? And first. Yeah, I mean this, this award is, I don’t know how to explain it. It’s really surreal. You don’t dream of this stuff growing up. So obviously you’re just really focused on what you’re trying to achieve on the pitch. So yeah, very, very privileged. Very honored. Yeah. Yeah. I’m really, really looking forward to the to the game. I feel like I’ve been counting it down for for weeks now. So, yeah, looking forward to it. Lots of excitement around the WSL title race. Yep. Who do you think is going to get? I don’t know, it’s pretty tough. I think City have been in great form this year and Chelsea, you know, they, they know how to win, they win you know, year in, year out. So I think it will be a tough battle between between the two of them. But unfortunately I’m I’m nowhere near the title race, so all the best of them. Congratulations. Thank you. Who is the amazing and first of all sort of mixing with all kinds of people with weight and good in there, Did you Is that nice to sort of see all those people and find out what they were getting awards for? Yeah, I I met a couple of really nice people in there and and learned a little bit about them which was, which was cool. And then I was able to have a little quick read through the program. It was a few people from Nottingham in there as well. So that was, that’s that’s always nice. But yeah, just just really surreal really and trying to take it in this beautiful beautiful place beautiful day. And you you know you just had the most extraordinary couple of years you know from a point where you your name wasn’t in the shirts. It’s now getting a deal with Pula. You’ve got an MBA and I don’t even know what I was chatting to Ridley Scott. I know we say to him that I think he’d be a great gladiator. I’ve said he should have a chat with you, a gladiator. Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know if I can act. I don’t know if I’ve got in the locker. But I’m. I’m willing to give most things a go. But there’s still so much I want to do in football. That’s all I think about, really. So very fortunate to to pick this up today. And and and and yeah, incredible couple years. But there’s so much more I want to do. I think it’s a weird, a weird thing in life. Like you get to these places that you can never imagine and then all you can think about is all the other things that you want to achieve. So yeah, but I’m. I’m also, I know that I’m very lucky and very grateful. So I’m so pleased.