Ben Cousins

Ben Cousins, whose full name is Benjamin Luke Cousins, was born on 30 June 1978 and is an Australian former professional Australian rules footballer and media presenter. He played 270 games for the West Coast Eagles and Richmond in the Australian Football League between 1996 and 2010, captained West Coast from 2001 to 2005, won the 2005 Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player and was a member of West Coast's 2006 premiership side. Journalist Mike Sheahan lists him among the fifty greatest players of all time. He joined Richmond with the sixth pick of the 2009 pre-season draft, retired at the end of the 2010 season and has since worked in Perth media as a sports presenter.