Sam Kerr: 'When the goals come you have more fun – it’s a ripple effect' | Matthew Hall

The hottest property in women’s football at the moment says the Matildas have grown so much recently now is the time to deliver on their rich promise

Three days after Samantha Kerr made football history by scoring four times in an incredible 5-4 Sky Blue FC comeback in the NWSL last weekend, a team-mate declares it is “hotter than Satan’s ball sack”. The player is filing an improvised weather report during a morning training session in the humid New Jersey summer sun but it’s fair to say everything around Sam Kerr right now is hot. Very hot.