EP. 346 | World Cup Hero Mary Earps: The Moment I Nearly Quit Football – “I Sold My Stuff On eBay To Survive”
That Peter Crouch Podcast
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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast, Crouchy, Sids, and Chris sit down with Mary Earps — 2022 Euros winner with England’s Lionesses, World Cup finalist, and Golden Glove winner — for an incredibly raw and inspiring chat.
Mary opens up about her toughest career moments, including being dropped from the England squad, struggling to pay rent, and nearly walking away from football altogether.
The lads dig into how she bounced back to become one of the world’s best, her move to Paris, and what it’s really like living life under the spotlight after the Euros win. Plus, the usual chaos: Sids’s FA Cup draw dilemma, tough gameweek 11 predictions, and why Erling Haaland’s robot dance might be crossing the line...
This one’s part football, part life lesson — and fully That Peter Crouch Podcast.
Chumbawamba
00:00 – 02:00 | Crouchy & the lads debate Haaland’s “robot” celebration
04:00 – 07:00 | Crouchy’s Orlando trip and the “67” mystery
10:00 – 11:20 | Breaking news: Do we get a paint sponsor deal live?
12:00 – 13:10 | The lads’ “What Three Words” discoveries
14:00 – 19:30 | Man City vs Liverpool predictions and robot outrage
22:00 – 24:00 | Sids’s Arsenal rant — “They think they invented football!”
25:00 – 27:00 | Spurs vs Man United — “Is it time to panic?”
29:00 – 30:30 | Sids’s FA Cup draw nerves and “one ball” plan
32:30 – 33:00 | Introduction of guest Mary Earps
34:00 – 36:00 | Mary on being dropped by England and struggling during Covid
37:00 – 38:00 | “I was in debt — selling stuff on eBay to survive.”
40:00 – 41:30 | The Euros win and how it changed her life
43:00 – 45:00 | Mary on her dad, her upbringing, and young girls in football
47:00 – 49:00 | Sir Alex Ferguson’s praise — “He remembered my save!”
50:00 – 52:00 | Mary on fame, fear, and adjusting to life after success
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the ACAST Creator Network. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello, I'm welcome to that Peter Crutch podcast with me, Peter Crudge. |
| 0:07.7 | Notorious, SID and Chris start with me. |
| 0:09.7 | How are we? |
| 0:10.7 | Very good, Erling. |
| 0:11.6 | How are you? |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.1 | Hey, trying to pinch it. |
| 0:19.8 | Well, you know, the thing is, it's like, it's all over the place, |
| 0:22.4 | you don't mean? |
| 0:22.7 | Like, it's part of my DNA. Do we need to lawyer off? I've got nothing left. Are we strapping up? Are we, uh, are we, uh, I think we've got to be careful here. I just think we're lawyering up here. I think we got a lawyer up here. He's come, mate. |
| 0:35.6 | He's going to go down as one of the greatest goal scorers of all time. |
| 0:38.5 | That could easily become his signature. lawyer. He's coming, mate, he's going to go down as one of the greatest goal scorers of all time. |
| 0:38.5 | That could easily become his signature celebration unless we do something here. Yeah, well, I've certainly... Don't we have a lawyer? I thought one of our listeners was a lawyer. Yeah, we've got a podcast lawyer. We have got a podcast lawyer. He stepped in a couple of times. Do you know how many stuck in when we wanted to do you know what we wanted to do um Crowchella that was it |
| 0:56.3 | and we and Colchella? He stepped in a couple of times. Do you know when he stepped in when we wanted to, do you remember we wanted to do |
| 0:54.5 | Crouchella? |
| 0:55.9 | That was it. |
| 0:56.8 | And Coachella actually got in touch of us and said we couldn't do it. Yeah. Do you remember that? That was it. As if we were going to arrive with him or something. I can't remember his name. We'll find him. But what we should get him to do is, you know, when players leave the training ground and they sign a couple of autographs, right? |
| 1:11.6 | We get a kid to serve him papers. |
| 1:14.6 | Stateful. you know when players leave the training ground and they they sign a couple of autographs right |
| 1:11.4 | we get a kid to serve him papers you know straight through the window he won't be expecting that |
| 1:16.8 | sign this yeah and we'll get him there i think we've got to go aggressive on this crouching |
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