Tom Burrows

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Senior Journalist @BBCNewsround. ✍🏻 Man United fan 🔰 ⚽️ Star Wars nerd 🎞 dad to a daughter. Had a blue tick for a bit. 📧:[email protected]

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Articles

Sam Kerr, a nightmare two years and now the chance to look to the future

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.
Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment of police officer

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.
Kristie Mewis tells court Sam Kerr was ‘speaking her truth’ in comments to police officer

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.
Sam Kerr felt she was treated differently by police because of skin colour, court hears

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.
Sam Kerr repeatedly called police officer ‘stupid and white’, court told as trial begins

Feb 3, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Tom Burrows

Chelsea striker Sam Kerr repeatedly called a police officer ‘f****** stupid and white’ inside a police station after a night out, a court heard on Monday. Kerr, 31, was present in court on the first day of her trial for an offence of causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress. The incident happened at Twickenham police station, south-west London, in the early hours of January 30, 2023.
Explained: Benjamin Mendy's legal win over Manchester City

Nov 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Burrows

At a rare moment when Manchester City are struggling on the pitch, they have also been dealt a defeat off it. Benjamin Mendy, their former defender, has won the main part of his employment tribunal against the club which saw him claim £11million ($14.2m) in unpaid wages. The hearing was told City stopped paying Mendy's wages in September 2021, a month after he had been charged with multiple counts of rape and one of sexual assault. He was later cleared of all criminal charges.
Manchester City ordered to pay majority of Benjamin Mendy's unpaid wages after employment tribunal

Nov 5, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Burrows

Manchester City have been ordered to pay the majority of Benjamin Mendy's unpaid wages after their former player won an employment tribunal. Mendy had claimed the Premier League champions owed him £11million ($14.1m) when they stopped paying his salary after he was charged with multiple rape allegations and one of sexual assault in August 2021.
The pain, *that* Al Pacino speech and... pub trips

Nov 1, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Burrows

"It's not easy. You get that feeling of 'When your luck's out, your luck's out.' But you have to keep morale as high as you can."Harry Redknapp is reliving his experiences of managing a team in a sticky spot and how to best come through it. Redknapp inherited a dire situation when he replaced Mark Hughes as Queens Park Rangers manager in November 2012. The west London club were bottom of the table and had gone 13 matches without a win at the start of the season.
Explaining the legal delays

Oct 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Burrows

It's almost one year since Nottingham Panthers ice hockey player Adam Johnson died after he was cut in the neck by a skate worn by an opponent. His death, which occurred on October 28 last year in a cup match against the Sheffield Steelers at the city's Utilita Arena in front of 8,000 spectators, left the ice hockey world in shock and prompted changes around the sport's safety measures, specifically on the use of neck guards.
The tragedy of Matija Sarkic

Oct 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Burrows

"When your phone goes at 6am on a Saturday as a football manager, or as a parent, it's not going to be good," Neil Harris, the Millwall manager, tells The Athletic. "It's either the wrong number or it's bad news. And it's that moment of fear."The voice at the other end of the line that June morning belonged to Andy Marshall, the Championship club's goalkeeping coach. He informed Harris that he had something to tell him. "My immediate thought was, 'What have you done? Are you OK?'," Harris recalls.