These days it can be more lucrative to await a pay-off than to fall on your sword. The Sun’s Mr Swann, however, showed there can be any number of less honorable factors still, such as deadlines and exclusives!
I Surrender by Rainbow… for cricket’s Graeme Swann
Was this noble part-time lead singer making way for youth or simply sick of being tonked by the Aussies? You could have been first to decide if you opted to wake up to the Sun of a Sunday. Pic: Paddy Briggs
Back To Life by Soul II Soul… for cricket’s Jonathan Trott
Also the title of depression survivor and former footballer Sebastian Deisler’s autobiography, sport may or not soon seem like a vainglorious distant memory for the first man to leave England’s Ashes 2013 tour
Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon… for F1′s Juan Manuel Fangio
Text-book retirement by the Argentinian genius at Reims, France in 1958, having secured his fourth consecutive world crown and fifth in total
Move Over Darling by Doris Day… for cricket’s Nasser Hussain
However pouty Essex boy Hussain was feeling at the time, he made a neat story of it by claiming that to stay on might deny the progress of the promising Andrew Strauss…
Demons by Super Furry Animals… for football’s John Terry
Not much to add!
Moving On by Paramore… for golf’s Lorena Ochoa
Getting out at the top at the age of 28, Lorena showed how it should be done, if you can only conquer that pesky ego
Should I Stay Or Should I Go by The Clash… for boxing’s Ricky Hatton
The speculation alone surrounding the subject of quitting can be so seductive for a lickle tease like our Ricky
Return by The Fall… for football’s Ben Foster
Following a trend established by somewhat more welcome French comebacks from Zidane and Makelele, goalkeeper Foster is widely expected to be on the plane, as the phrase goes, bound for Brazil come June
Always On My Mind by Willie Nelson… for football’s Howard Kendall
While he gave greater service at Maine Road than plenty before or since, Kendall famously described City as his mistress and Everton as his wife…
Wild Thing by The Troggs… for cricket’s Shaun Tait
Just to prove quitting is not the sole preserve of English cricketers, Australian Tait, whose nickname you can guess, retired from everything but T20 in March 2011, at the ripe old age of 28
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