In the grand scheme of the life and times of the Matildas, what a non-week this was.

If a “non-week” in the very week that Sam Kerr returns from an intensely documented 725-day international absence feels like an anomaly, you are not alone.

But the build-up to Australia’s friendly against Wales, and the texture of the 2-1 win itself, really was more notable for what it wasn’t rather than what it was.

It was the week of the non-question, when Football Australia advised the media that Kerr “will not be taking questions around the court case”.

On Friday, Australian media respectfully observed the prohibition and asked just about everything over Zoom except for February’s high-profile trial in London, where she was unanimously found not guilty of racially abusing a UK police officer, and

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