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Sam Kerr’s racially aggravated harassment charge puts Football Australia in a tricky place

  • Written by Tracey Holmes, Professorial Fellow in Sport, University of Canberra

Football Australia has been engulfed in a crisis it never saw coming.

Global football superstar Sam Kerr – captain of the hugely popular Matildas national women’s team – has been charged in England with the racially aggravated harassment of a police officer. She stands accused of using insulting, threatening or abusive words that...

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