Manchester United have been handed a boost in their pursuit of Bologna forward Joshua Zirkzee with AC Milan looking at alternatives.
27.05.2024 - 16:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
On the pitch she is charismatic and passionate. Both Manchester United and England have reaped the benefits of Mary Earps' big personality and skills.
But the goalkeeper has not always been the confident and inspiring woman she is now. She has revealed how she was bullied at school - an experience which left her "faded and dimmed".
"My childhood was really great. I struggled when I went into secondary school. I had things in my backpack that were potentially weighing me down a bit. I moved around schools a bit and my first secondary school I did not have a good experience with at all. I struggled to find my feet, to find friends."
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She is supporting the BBC Children In Need "The Heaviest Backpack" campaign aimed at helping children weighed down by mental health issues, anxiety, and problems at home.
In a BBC Children In Need Youtube channel interview she said: "I had a lot of instances where I didn't understand maybe why things were happening in a certain way. I definitely experienced bullying 100 percent. And because I am quite a bubbly character people maybe wouldn't expect that. But you know, people throwing Blu Tack in my hair - chasing me around the school and not in a fun way. Definitely in my early teens that was the time when I realised I was carrying something in my backpack.
"I think I was really timid about it to start with. Probably quite embarrassed, You know there were days when I didn't want to go in. But I was brought up in a family where you didn't do that - you go and you don't take time off school.
"Maybe I would say I was ill when I didn't want to go. It just became a bit of a
Manchester United have been handed a boost in their pursuit of Bologna forward Joshua Zirkzee with AC Milan looking at alternatives.
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