They never come back. Four stark words that have often served as the epitaph for the careers of great sportsmen who, having left the arena, find that life after sport is unsustainable.
They return in an often desperate, even pitiful, attempt to regain past glories. Lester Piggott took no heed of such rules; he took precious little notice of the regulations set down by either the Jockey Club or Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs for that matter.
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