A message that no longer rings true
A chilling phone conversation with an Irish terrorist four decades ago convinced Ted Corbett that sportsmen will never be the target of terror attacks because the people the terrorists want to impress love their sports stars
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
A chilling phone conversation with an Irish terrorist four decades ago convinced Ted Corbett that sportsmen will never be the target of terror attacks because the people the terrorists want to impress love their sports stars. But the Lahore shootout has changed everything and the vision of Chris Broad in his blood-stained shirt has only dampened Corbett's wish to see the world. Read on in Sportstar.
One morning I arrived at the office to be told that our man in Belfast had died suddenly and that I had been chosen to cover football in that city until a permanent replacement could be found. There had been threats to newspapermen in the city, two had been kidnapped when they wandered into forbidden territory and the hotel they all used had been blown up a number of times. I left the sports editor’s office full of joy, sure my family would understand this brief posting, glad to have a proper job instead of sitting round the office waiting for one of the big name writers to give way to me.
As I got back to my desk, my phone rang....
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo