If you think Football Australia should have stripped Sam Kerr of the Matildas captaincy for her verbal altercation with London police ... you probably weren’t at Leichhardt Oval on Tuesday.
As a train-on player only,she won’t wear the captain’s armband on Friday night at Allianz Stadium in the first of two friendlies between the Matildas and South Korea. But she will wear it again.
Spare me the psychobabble. None of us own the truth. It’s not something we can sculpt to suit our personal preferences.
Short of words and desperate for a donut,a mother country scribe has decided to attack this columnist for his piece on the Matildas star.
Just when you think you have seen an athlete do something indefensible,you are told it was all a justified reaction to the patriarchy,to the white establishment and to a system of entrenched injustice.
Football Australia will be looking for maximum mea culpa,and if they get it,she’ll be back as skipper.
This case is the biggest attack on an Australian sports star from the mother country since Bodyline.
The Matildas’ star will face no sanction from her club after her court case.
I’ve been in Sam Kerr’s shoes – a terrified woman of colour trapped in the back of an Uber – and I don’t blame her.
Having left court on Tuesday in London after being found not guilty,Sam Kerr is about to meet a new set of challenges.