The Nottinghamshire-born Lionesses' goalkeeper spectacularly saved a penalty in the Women's World Cup final.
By Greig Watson & Shannon SameckiThe Lionesses' Women's World Cup goalkeeper Mary Earps is to have a Nottingham tram named after her.
Tram operator NET has confirmed it will unveil a tram in honour of the West Bridgford-born footballer, who was awarded the tournament's Golden Glove.Tram bosses said she was "really excited" by the honour and wanted to attend the unveiling. Earps will join football legends Brian Clough, Jimmy Sirrel, Jack Wheeler and Viv Anderson in having one of theTim Hesketh, chief executive of Tramlink, the group of companies behind the city's network, said it was a "fantastic thing to do".
He said: "[Mary] wants to come along to the depot to do the unveiling. It's a lovely thing we can do with the trams - all our trams are named after the famous sons and daughters of Nottingham who put Nottingham where it is."Trams in Nottnigham are named after some of the city's famous sons and daughters"The biggest challenge we have is we only have a certain number of trams so it's really difficult, you can't just keep adding people forever," he said.
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