Home and away

The recent incident involving Australian batsman David Warner and England opponent Joe Root may have astonished the world of cricket, but it came as little surprise to me. It took place in Walkabout in Birmingham, you see, and having had the misfortune to not only be there but be there in the company of an Aussie (on Australia Day, no less), I can well imagine that witnessing our bastardisation of Antipodean culture might drive someone to violence...