Piers Morgan wasn’t happy that Mary Earps won the BBC’s Sports Personality prize and this response deserved an award all of its own
It was time once again for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year awards on Tuesday night and while it’s not the event TV it once was, we’d be very sorry to see it go the way of most of the BBC’s sports rights.
And last night’s overall winner was England goalkeeper Mary Earps who described her prize as the ‘ultimate all-round sporting accolade’. And very well deserved it was too, the first time women have won the prize for three years in a row.
The 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year is MARY EARPS!! #BBCSPOTY pic.twitter.com/Z99Nn9NSF8
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 19, 2023
And with a depressing sense of inevitability, there was a certain sort of person who wasn’t happy that Earps won. And when we say a ‘certain sort of person’, we mean Piers Morgan.
No offence to Ms Earps, but shouldn’t it have been given to someone who actually won something in 2023? https://t.co/0VtuzMyzgh
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 19, 2023
And while it prompted no end of totally on-point and super satisfying replies …
https://t.co/0DDQTOdGJQ she’s won plenty.
— Emma (@UTDEmma_) December 19, 2023
‘sports personality of the year’ not sports winner of the year. You wouldn’t know much about a personality
— REF (@ReviewEveryFoul) December 19, 2023
behave yourself @piersmorgan she thoroughly deserved to win it she played a critical role in helping England to the final and giving them a shot to win it she has done a missive amount for goalkeeping as well as woman’s sport so well deserved in my opinion
— Cairon lee (@lee_cairon) December 19, 2023
this was enough to win it icl https://t.co/XzoZC6IZk1 pic.twitter.com/y6MlUwsbfj
— kaz (@kaz_muw) December 19, 2023
… this was surely the best.
Like Prince Harry? pic.twitter.com/pDqyvbCHkL
— Davey Six-Toes (@HutchinsonDave) December 19, 2023
Boom.
— (@thatjimdavis) December 20, 2023
Last word to Mary Earps.
“It’s not been the easiest journey and I wouldn’t be where I am without a number of incredible people in my corner.”
Mary Earps thanks her support network as she wins the BBC Sports Personality of the year award.#BBCSPOTY pic.twitter.com/oZKHR55BQB
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 19, 2023
And also.
Once a Lioness, always a Lioness
Look how happy @JillScott and @AlexScott are for Mary Earps #BBCSPOTY pic.twitter.com/Tjkcwkaktu
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 19, 2023
And finally.
Gary Lineker: *makes a goalkeeper joke*
Mary Earps: *finger guns*#BBCSPOTY pic.twitter.com/hafJ0FIfUH
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 19, 2023
And in the unlikely event you need a reminder …
Source @HutchinsonDave
