Ellis Genge: ‘Not everyone’s going to like you – you’ve just got to be yourself’
Certain perceptions can be hard to shake. If Ellis Genge had a quid for every time he has been called a hothead or a potential liability on social media he could retire to his own tropical island. “People on social media still throw out comments about things they’ve seen five years ago,” murmurs the Leicester and England prop. “Everyone says: ‘He’s got such a bad track record.’ I don’t know if it’s my problem that people are still that blind and don’t do their due diligence.”
