Peter FitzSimons, a Sydney Morning Herald star columnist, paid the price this week for rushing to judgment with sparse facts to hand when he penned a column arguing Sam Kerr should lose the captaincy of the Matildas for allegedly “uttering racist epithets”.
“Curveball must cost Matildas captaincy for now” was the headline on the comment piece that ran in print, arguing the news of the Kerr incident came as such as shock because the footballer was a woman, a lesbian and ethnically diverse herself.
