PATRICK KIDD
Oct 28, 2021
3 minutes
“WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY, they first call promising.” Cyril Connolly was writing about authors, and said they needed three-to-seven years of maturing after they are first hailed as great in order to “live down their promise”, but it applies in every walk of life. Some of those young meteors who burn brighter than everyone else at the dawn of their career soon fizzle out.
Sports writers always want to spot the Next Big Thing. Sometimes they come off, often they are like . The Ghana-born footballer was hailed as the next Pelé when he
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