Tristan Lavalette

@trislavalette
On the eve of the 2013-14 Ashes, Stuart Broad was public enemy number one in Australia. Sensing an opportunity, Brisbane’s Courier Mail – hardly the bastion of objective journalism – capitalised on the drunk patriotism sweeping the country with a front-page mocking of Broad.
Letting its Rottweiler reporters loose, the tabloid refused to refer to Broad by name and, instead, rather childishly called him “a 27-year-old English medium-pace bowler”. Of course, it all stemmed from the infamous incident just months earlier when Broa...