Lioness Mary Earps to be honoured with Nottingham tram

The Lionesses' Women's World Cup goalkeeper Mary Earps is to person a Nottingham tram named aft her.

Tram relation NET has confirmed it volition unveil a tram successful honour of the West Bridgford-born footballer, who was awarded the tournament's Golden Glove.

England reached the final, with Earps spectacularly redeeming a punishment during the game.

Tram bosses said she was "really excited" by the honour and wanted to be the unveiling.

Earps volition articulation shot legends Brian Clough, Jimmy Sirrel, Jack Wheeler and Viv Anderson successful having 1 of the network's 37 trams named aft them.

Tim Hesketh, main enforcement of Tramlink, the radical of companies down the city's network, said it was a "fantastic happening to do".

He said: "[Mary] wants to travel on to the depot to bash the unveiling. It's a beauteous happening we tin bash with the trams - each our trams are named aft the celebrated sons and daughters of Nottingham who enactment Nottingham wherever it is."

However, Mr Hesketh said it volition mean someone's sanction volition person to beryllium removed to marque way.

"The biggest situation we person is we lone person a definite fig of trams truthful it's truly difficult, you can't conscionable support adding radical forever," helium said.

"Thankfully that's not my decision."

No day has been fixed for the tram to beryllium named, helium added, but NET said it hoped to update radical soon.