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Watson stuck my head in toilet – Johnson
- Updated: October 24, 2016
Mitchell Johnson has revealed how his long-standing friendship with Shane Watson made a rocky start when the allrounder stuck the future Australia fast man’s head in the toilet during a wrestle at the Cricket Academy in Adelaide.
Back in 2000, the Academy was very much an alpha-male environment helmed by Rod Marsh and featuring tutorials from the likes of Ian Chappell, John Inverarity and Dennis Lillee. Johnson told the story of how that year’s intake had a habit of watching the Australia soap Neighbours together, although this seems mainly a pretence for the bouts of wrestling that took place in commercial breaks.
“Every night we’d pile into the common room and watch Neighbours before dinner,” Johnson wrote in his autobiography Resilient, which released on Monday. “I was always a bit willing as every time there was an ad break …
