| In Chris Ryan's Strike Back, the much-hyped combat fest from Sky One, we had John Porter, an SAS hardman with scant regard for protocol and a score to settle. |
| His image as an obdurate hardman culminated in the notorious case where he bit reporter Frank Oliver's nose. |
| On a flight to Japan, the former football hardman is said to have sworn at one woman passenger before grabbing her male companion by the throat. |
| Jesse Eisenberg is great as the scaredy-cat anti-hero helped by gun-toting hardman Woody Harrelson. |
| But hardman was out hunting, and there was no gun left there. |
| Now Jonathan Trott, for four years the embodiment of the self-absorbed sporting hardman, has followed suit, leaving Australia on Mondayafter one test of the Ashes series. |
