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[Scallop Industry Thug]

London: Matildas captain Sam Kerr allegedly called a police officer “a stupid white bastard” during a dispute over a taxi fare last year, UK newspaper The Sun has reported.

Kerr, who has pleaded not guilty and is fighting to have a charge of racially harassing the police officer thrown out of court, was reported to have been sick in the cab after a night out and is then alleged to have unleashed the slur when police arrived.

Australian football star Sam Kerr is fighting to have a charge of racially harassing the police officer thrown out of court.[emoji767] Getty
Her English club Chelsea had not commented on her case for almost two days, but ahead of their League Cup semi-final against Manchester City on Thursday manager Emma Hayes said Kerr had the club’s backing.

“Sam has our full support, she knows that. It’s a difficult time for her,” Hayes told reporters on Thursday morning, Australian time.

“Of course I can’t comment, you know that. I can say that I know she’s pleaded not guilty and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardise anything for Sam by speaking about it. For that reason, I’m sure you can appreciate that’s all I’m going to say on the matter.

“Difficult moments, tough times. That’s what my role is in this football club – to make sure I look after our people.”

With the offence carrying a potential prison term or fine or both, her glittering career and millions of dollars in endorsements are hanging by a thread following the revelation of the alleged incident. The Daily Mail on Wednesday reported a variation of the allegations, citing police sources who claimed she called the officer a “stupid white PC” [police constable].

Her legal team will head back to court on April 26 in a bid to have the charge thrown out or downgrade ahead of a criminal trial scheduled for February next year.

Related video: Kerr has our full support, says Chelsea boss Hayes after police charge forward (Reuters)

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Kerr is accused of using insulting, threatening or abusive words that caused alarm or distress to an officer in Twickenham, south-west London, on January 30 last year. She was not officially charged until six weeks ago and appeared in court via videolink on Monday, local time, to enter a not-guilty plea.

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[Del191229]

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Fascinating how everyone here is focusing in the race stuff not the rich entitled Premier League acts like massive arseh*le to The Little People element.

 

[Chadwiko]

Fascinating how everyone here is focusing in the race stuff not the rich entitled Premier League acts like massive a-hole to The Little People element.

Fascinating how you stick up for Cops when it suits your argument, but it's ACAB when it doesn't.

 

[Del191229]

Fascinating how you stick up for Cops when it suits your argument, but it's ACAB when it doesn't.

I'm more talking about the taxi driver in who's workplace she drunkenly vomited then acted like a complete arseh*le to the point where they called the rozzers.

That's the bit that is being overlooked.

What happened when the cops arrived is a different matter, and given the history of The Met in particular, yes ACAB and their bootlicking civilian accomplices still applies.

 

[Chadwiko]

I'm more talking about the taxi driver

Man, **** taxi drivers.

Bunch of scamming bastards these days. After the Blink 182 gig at Rod Laver last week, there was a line of taxis at the rank outside the venue, but NONE of them were being used because they were all refusing to use their meters and instead demanding exorbitant upfront fees for trips to the CBD or South Yarra etc.

**** em.

 

[Del191229]

Man, * taxi drivers.

Bunch of scamming bastards these days. After the Blink 182 gig at Rod Laver last week, there was a line of taxis at the rank outside the venue, but NONE of them were being used because they were all refusing to use their meters and instead demanding exorbitant upfront fees for trips to the CBD or South Yarra etc.

* em.

Well, this happened in London which has a very different taxi system.

I am quite interested in the lengths people are going to in order to protext Saint Sam's image in the culture though.

Maybe she's just a bit of a rich entitled araehole like so many other footy players?

Especially Chelsea players

 

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[Makeshift Park]

I'm more talking about the taxi driver in who's workplace she drunkenly vomited then acted like a complete a-hole to the point where they called the rozzers.

That's the bit that is being overlooked.

What happened when the cops arrived is a different matter, and given the history of The Met in particular, yes ACAB and their bootlicking civilian accomplices still applies.

Well, this happened in London which has a very different taxi system.

I am quite interested in the lengths people are going to in order to protext Saint Sam's image in the culture though.

Maybe she's just a bit of a rich entitled araehole like so many other footy players?

Especially Chelsea players

Working class people don't chunder in taxis?

 

[Chadwiko]

Maybe she's just a bit of a rich entitled araehole like so many other footy players?

Especially Chelsea players

Do you apply this standard to AFL players too?

Or only soccer players in the UK?

 

[Del191229]

Working class people don't chunder in taxis?

Yes, and when they do, they pay the driver, and if they and don't and get the cops called on them and abuse them too, they face the consequences.

They just don't have any army of highly paid lawyers and PRs to help them.

This is what I mean about the very odd efforts to deflect and defend re Kerr at all costs.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Yes, and when they do, they pay the driver, and if they and don't and get the cops called on them and abuse them too, they face the consequences.

They just don't have any army of highly paid lawyers and PRs to help them.

This is what I mean about the very odd efforts to deflect and defend re Kerr at all costs.

How do you know she didn’t offer to pay the driver?

 

[Del191229]

Do you apply this standard to AFL players too?

Or only soccer players in the UK?

If one of our players got so hammered after a game they spewed in the back of a cab, then got into an argumentative dispute with the driver so bad the cops were called, yes, I'd be bloody disappointed and would expect a small club imposed suspention.

(Noting above I have deliberately omitted any reference to what they may or may not have said to the cops)

You seem to be of the belief Sam Kerr can never do any wrong ... for reasons.

I don't think her career should end over this, but ffs, she doesn't a free pass on being an arseh*le simply because a certain portion of Australia have declared her a secular saint lol.

 

[Del191229]

How do you know she didn’t offer to pay the driver?

Well, the offer can't have been very good if the driver ended up calling the cops hey?

Why is it so difficult to just say maybe Sam's a bit of an arseh*le like so many high achieving professional sportspeople?

Its this belief that she has an almost mystical purity and goodness that I find so puzzling.

She's just a person dude, yes she shags women and yes she's mixed race but at the end of the day, she's a Chelsea footballer earning squillions who seems to have got very used to being treated differently to the rest of us.

You do know she wouldn't give you the time of day unless she was being paid to right?

 

[Chadwiko]

You seem to be of the belief Sam Kerr can never do any wrong ... for reasons.

What are you basing this on?

 

[Makeshift Park]

Well, the offer can't have been very good if the driver ended up calling the cops hey?

London taxis can charge a maximum of 60 pounds for a clean.

That's about $120.

Pretty steep if it was just a little dribble.

This is the talkback banter Australia is crying out for. "Have you ever spewed up in a taxi? How much did you pay? Was it too much? We want to hear from you, give us a call, but right now its time for the news."

 

[ferball]

London taxis can charge a maximum of 60 pounds for a clean.

That's about $120.

Pretty steep if it was just a little dribble.

This is the talkback banter Australia is crying out for. "Have you ever spewed up in a taxi? How much did you pay? Was it too much? We want to hear from you, give us a call, but right now its time for the news."

Not if you're on three or four million like her.

Its still about 1/100th of the equivalent male salary too.

 

[Chadwiko]

Not if you're on three or four million like her.

She is on a $600,000 (AUD~ equivalent) contract with Chelsea.

Tarryn Thomas earned more than her.

 

[Del191229]

What are you basing this on?

Posting on the topic here ... first it was the cops, then the taxi drivers.

But fair enough, what do you think of the incident as reported so far?

 

[Del191229]

London taxis can charge a maximum of 60 pounds for a clean.

That's about $120.

Pretty steep if it was just a little dribble.

This is the talkback banter Australia is crying out for. "Have you ever spewed up in a taxi? How much did you pay? Was it too much? We want to hear from you, give us a call, but right now its time for the news."

Hilarious stuff, genuinely hilarious.

"London taxi cleaning costs are the issue here!"

 

[Del191229]

She is on a $600,000 (AUD~ equivalent) contract with Chelsea.

Tarryn Thomas earned more than her.

Yes, her only income is from playing football. This is what I mean about the bizarre desire to minimise and defend and deflect at every turn.

Kerr’s eye-watering salary, big gap to fellow Matildas stars revealed

Kerr’s eye-watering salary, big gap to fellow Matildas stars revealed

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She's got hammered and acted like a spanner. She shouldn't be driven from the game for it lol, but jeez, this desperation to maintain she's a quasi-religious figure incapable of evil is just ... weird.

 

[ferball]

She is on a $600,000 (AUD~ equivalent) contract with Chelsea.

Tarryn Thomas earned more than her.

She also has sponsorships that are worth alot of money. The Nike one alone is worth a million dollars a year. Still peanuts compare to the men.

But her income is pretty consistently quoted as 3.3 million dollars. Not $600K.

 

[Del191229]

Not if you're on three or four million like her.

Its still about 1/100th of the equivalent male salary too.

My personal view is that lots of people bought into an idea about the Matildas and Kerr that they are "better" and "different" from other sports.

This isn't without some evidence - nobody is jumping the fence and attacking the oppo keeper with a bucket at a Matildas game, the crowds seem strong and generate a fun kid friendly environment.

But Kerr herself has been elevated to a quasi religious figure, especially by "progressive" Australians who privilege identity over everything else.

There's no argument that having a gay POC as such a national champion is a frigging good thing compared to deadshits like David Warner for example.

Kerr's rise is great because she does prove that Australian sporting success comes in all sizes, shapes and colours.

But some, especially the sPoRtSbAlL crowd who have made it know 'the Tillies" are the only time they've ever attended a sporting event don't have the understanding of fandom we long suffering nuffs do.

This is the first time they've invested emotionally in a sporting figure due to their own personal/political allegiances and identity - "she's one of us!!!" - so the first time they've experienced the horror of realising their hero is just another person capable of doing dumb stuff like the rest of us.

And because they're invested in Kerr and the current Matildas squad on a parasocial level, they don't have the "well, its best for the club" psychological crutch we can use for the likes of Tarryn.

Its not Kerr's FAULT she was elevated to this kind of status - it happens in all sports, soccer especially - but if she wants to drag home $4m a year largely from big corporates, she can't be doing shit like getting hammered, spewing in cabs and hav ing the rozzers called on you.

Fwiw its a crying shame that she was born ten years too late for AFLW, she'd be the number one player in the comp and WAPol would have happily made any "misunderstanding" like this go away well before it hit the papers.

She's not a legit danger to herself and others like her ******* brother and his crew of ******** mates were (and still are)

 

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[SpiderBurton22]

Beware of the Kerr's on the piss.

It starts with a taxi incident. Next thing you know they'll be caught on a phone tap looking for Ket then they'll burn down your house.