Isabelle Westbury suggests that sports fans prefer stories of stars turning their fortunes round to tales of wunderkinds

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There are some sporting clichés so ungainly you can only ever imagine them being uttered by the likes of Rocky, shadow boxing atop those iconic Philadelphia steps. “It’s not about how many times you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up,” is one of them. Still, they’re romantic, alluring and look good in large print plastered a...