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Matildas captain Sam Kerr has been charged over alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer in London early last year.
Kerr appeared in court in London on Monday, where British media is reporting she pleaded not guilty, and is set to face a trial in February 2025.
The 30-year-old is among the biggest names in Australian sport, and overcame a calf injury to dazzle at last year’s World Cup.
In a statement, the sport’s governing body Football Australia said it was aware of the legal proceedings.
She has won the Golden Boot award in three different continents — the W-League in Australia and New Zealand, the NWSL in North America and the Women’s Super League in Europe.
Her father Roger Kerr said on Friday she was “definitely” out of the Paris Olympics, which the Matildas qualified for in a 10-0 thrashing of Uzbekistan in Melbourne last week.
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Exactly what she is alleged to have said hasn’t been revealed anywhere, as far as I know. But I’ve seen people guessing based on her lawyer’s statements that it might be something that’s less offensive in Australia than it is in Britain, where this occurred. “Wog” and “Paki” have been suggested.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 8 months ago
People are saying Wog and Paki are less offensive in Australia?
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
wog is extremely audience specific. You trot that in melbs and it’s often nbd because it’s considered by many to be a reclaimed slur by the community. You say that in any other state and it’s considered reason to punch your teeth in.
“paki” reads to some as australian shorthand, of the kind we are renowned for. It’s really fucking not.
Any rate, there is zero good faith reason to use either word when talking to a fucking cop about a taxi fare.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re not where I live. My mate who is a wog himself uses that word at least ten times a day.
Marsupial@quokk.au 8 months ago
Why would Paki be racist here?
It’s like how in America ‘Jap’ is racist, whereas here ‘Nip’ is racist. Both are short hands for the country name Japan/Nihon(Nippon).
Or the British turning Ning-Nong/Nig-Nog into their version of the n word because some politician used it as such in the 60s or something, whereas here we shortened it to nong and it’s kept its original meaning of a foolish person.
It’s the cultural history behind the words that make them racist and just because we speak dialects of English doesn’t mean our words have followed the same trajectories.