A few days ago I read a news story that resonated with me.
The story wasn’t about a heroic act, or a political crisis, it was about a sportsman who might have to retire from the sport he loves.
For those of you don’t know, and don’t hail from the UK, the tennis player Andy Murray is likely to retire after this month’s Australian Open tournament due to persistent issues with his hip.
Murray is one of the greatest sportsman the UK has produced. He won 3 Grand Slam titles, which included becoming the first British man to win Wimbledon in 77 years.
Growing up in the UK, this was a national obsession every summer when Wimbledon came around. The clamour for a homegrown winner of the tournament was relentless.
This was only compounded by a number of near misses from Tim Henman and Murray himself. Winning Wimbledon in 2013 cemented Murray’s legacy as one of the country’s greatest sportsman.
However, despite all his achievements it took a long time for Murray to be loved by the British public. Indeed, there are probably still some people who remain ambivalent towards him now.
A lot of this is down to Murray’s character. He is honest, fiery and had a reputation, wrongly I might add, as being boring early on in his career. There was also the issue of him…
