Despite the fact that Candice Warner and Robbie Slater work together, the former Ironwoman criticized the legendary Socceroos player on live television on Tuesday night.
Slater's now-famous News Corp piece from January of last year, in which he claimed that Matildas superstar Sam Kerr's accomplishments pale in comparison to those of Socceroos legend Tim Cahill, was criticized by Warner, a mother of three daughters, in dramatic scenes on The Back Page.
Slater, 58, claimed in an opinion piece that Kerr's incredible international success as a striker was inferior to Cahill's goal-scoring record for Australia.
The Chelsea attacker has just eclipsed Cahill's mark of 50 goals for his nation.
In the Disney + documentary Matildas: The World at Our Feet, Kerr, who was incensed, referred to Slater's remark as "literally the most sexist thing you could say — not equal."
Kerr raged, "Imagine little girls reading that."
"I cannot believe that someone could write this in this day and age, let alone have young girls read it, and that News Corp would actually publish such a sexist comment on the front page," the author said.
On the program, Warner also didn't hold back, calling Slater "out of line" and "incredibly sexist."
I truly don't agree with you, Robbie, she said.
"I thought it was inappropriate." Your two daughters are young. It seemed terribly sexist to me.
What advice do you provide to young females who may want to play professional football?
The girl claimed her famous father Kerr was'so much better' than him as a player when the tale was published last year, despite her father's 44 times as a Socceroos representative and 1995 Premier League championship with Blackburn Rovers.
"I don't regret the column," Slater said, "because I stand by the fact that I separated Tim Cahill from Sam Kerr and said Tim is our greatest Socceroo goalscorer ever and Sam is our greatest ever women's goalscorer."
"I don't believe that was inappropriate."
But if I had listened to my daughter, who is nine, I might have made a mistake. What have you done to Sam Kerr, Dad? She's so much better than you, remarked Indigo, approaching me.
On the wall, she has a poster of Sam Kerr.
"I've had to respond to several inquiries. However, I believe the column was balanced.
Slater continued by saying that in his opinion Kerr is the finest female player in the world and that the Women's World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand in July and August, will be the biggest athletic event to take place on home soil since the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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