The redemption myth: sporting comebacks are as predictable as they are overblown | Geoff Lemon

Success that follows a lack of success is often labelled a redemption story. But in the churn of sports results, that isn’t a narrative, it’s a sequenceAmong the overblown themes of sports writing, through all its stained and dog-eared lexica, the one that comes up most is surely redemption. Across the dirt of suburban outfields and the paint of city lanes, redemption and the seeking of it. Blessed is its pursuit. Something to be striven for, to be craved, to be grasped, to be squand