Let the wheels of British justice turn and all that, but here’s hoping sense prevails and Kerr is soon free to shoulder-barge her way back into our hearts.
When Australia went nuts for the Matildas last year, an old video of Captain Kerr did the rounds. In the clip, from 2021, Sam Kerr stands on the football field during a Champions League game for her English club, Chelsea. Play is stopped by a pitch invader who saunters into the game with his mobile phone held aloft, ignoring the discomfort of the women, apparently taking a selfie with the team.
Would we cheer a male player who had shoulder-barged a female pitch invader to the ground? No, for much the same reasons that we would have been horrified if Kerr had racially abused a cop who was black or brown. Although
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