Bompastor rushes to Hannah Hampton’s defense after Earps’ comments of her disrupting the team atmosphere in England.
Bompastor springs to Hampton’s defence after keeper helps Chelsea win.
After the Chelsea manager saw her custodian keep a clean sheet in a 2-0 victory over London City Lionesses, Sonia Bompastor criticised Mary Earps for showing disrespect for remarks made about her player Hannah Hampton and the England manager, Sarina Wiegman.
The accusations made by the former England No. 1 in passages from the book that were published on Friday night overshadowed Chelsea’s hard-won Women’s Super League success. Earps told Wiegman that she was rewarding “bad behaviour” by bringing up Hampton because of a breakdown in the relationship between the two goalkeepers and the Lionesses’ manager. Earps retired from international football prior to the summer’s European Championship.
“I think Hannah is fine,” Bompastor said. “It’s tough because Hannah is an athlete but also a person and it is never nice to hear these comments. The only thing I want to say about Hannah is that, since I joined Chelsea, she has grown so much. She’s such a professional athlete and also a good person. We have a really good relationship together and I want to show her my support in this situation.”
The Chelsea manager continued: “I just feel like with what I read in terms of comments coming from Earps it is not acceptable not to show respect to your teammate or your manager. We are talking about Hannah but I am also raising my voice for Sarina. I just think when you use some words saying something about someone who won the European Championship three times in a row, you should probably think about it before you speak. Hannah has been fine with us and all the club, myself, the staff and the players are all behind her.
“If you look at what Hannah said in the previous comments about Mary Earps then what Mary is saying about her now, one of them is class and Hannah is the class one.”