Stuart Broad broke our fantasy

Sport and the workplace.

Stuart Broad broke the fantasy the other day. 

On our side of sport, it's clear that it's something bigger than life and death. It's just south of Nuclear codes and, more important than eradicating a pandemic. 

I'm not sure I would have believed that before Covid, but the last year has been a lesson in the way many people think about sport. This article by Matthew Syed was written a year ago, it's really an amazing piece of work. 

Especially as so many fans have made it look reasonably tame now. 

And it's not just Virus related; I saw two sets of fans arguing recently about coaching. The crux of the argument was one side saw this as a spiritual position, and the other side as a business. But even when fans are complaining about the Glazers, or how their team has stuffed up the salary cap, they're still thinking about this separate to normal work.

Heroes. Villains. Epic quests. Destiny, fate and jinxes. The standard stuff you get from fans. 

But every now and again - even for the most ferven…