Tom Burrows

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Tom Burrows

Image source, Getty ImagesIt's coming home, football's coming home... It's a phrase you might hear over and over, especially when England are competing in major tournaments. But could the home of football actually be in... Scotland? For centuries, England has laid claim to being the birthplace of the beautiful game. But now one football historian believes the origins of the world's most popular sport could lie in Scotland.

Feb 12, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Tom Burrows

For Sam Kerr, an ordeal that started more than two years ago is finally over. The decision handed down by a jury on Tuesday means Kerr can put a protracted legal saga behind her, as she prepares to mark her return to football in the next two months. For seven days over the past two weeks, Chelsea striker Kerr, Australia’s captain and a star of the women’s game worldwide, has battled past a scrum of flashing cameras, stationed outside Kingston Crown Court in south-west London, to attend her trial.

Feb 11, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Tom Burrows

Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment of police officer following a seven-day trial at Kingston Crown Court. Kerr, one of women’s football’s highest-profile players, had been accused of intentionally causing “racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress” to PC Stephen Lovell during the incident inside a police station in the early hours of January 30, 2023.

Feb 6, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Tom Burrows

United States international Kristie Mewis told a court on Thursday that her fiancee Sam Kerr was “speaking her truth in how she was feeling” when she called a police officer “stupid and white”. Kerr, one of women’s football’s most decorated players, is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to PC Stephen Lovell during the incident inside a police station in the early hours of January 30, 2023. That followed a night out Kerr had been on with Mewis.

Feb 5, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Tom Burrows

Sam Kerr said she felt she was treated differently by police officers based on “what they perceived to be the colour of my skin”, a court heard on Wednesday. The Chelsea striker is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to PC Stephen Lovell by calling him “stupid and white” during an incident inside a police station on January 30, 2023. That followed a night out Kerr had been on with her partner, Kristie Mewis, the U.S. Women’s National Team and West Ham United player.