It’s been a challenging year for one of Australia’s biggest sporting stars, to say the least.
Over the course of two weeks in January 2024, Sam Kerr ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and was charged with racially aggravated harassment against a police officer, and she has spent the last 12 months picking up the pieces as off-field events threatened to derail everything she had worked for on it.
Now a jury has delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict and Kerr can look forward to moving on with purely footballing matters.
It’s worth mentioning that this may hang over her for some time, though, for a 31-year-old who one Australian journalist described at the start of the trial as the ‘best thing to happen to Australian sport since Shane Warne’.