Jannik Sinner v Alexander Zverev: Wimbledon men’s singles final – live
Live updates from match starting at 4pm BST Get in touch: you can contact Daniel on email Can we ever heal our deepest wounds? For
Live updates from match starting at 4pm BST Get in touch: you can contact Daniel on email Can we ever heal our deepest wounds? For many of us, that’s a question we barely acknowledge, the pain of childhood and thereafter buried because we have neither time nor confidence nor inclination to engage.
Instead, it gnaws at our convictions, integrity and identity, stopping us from connecting to those closest to us and also to ourselves. Sport, though, is not like that: rather, those wounds are dangled in faces, often in public, becoming the subject of debate, conjecture and gags.
It’s fair to say, say, that Jimmy White has an inkling he never became world snooker champion, just as Chris Waddle well recalls chriswaddling his penalty an acre or so over the bar when England lost to Germany in the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup.
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