Saffrons are older and wiser

THERE are any number of ways to deal with defeat.

Some people are able to rationalise their disappointment, to place it in its proper context. Like Boris Becker. The German once reacted to a shock exit from Wimbledon by remarking that he hadn’t started a war and no-one had died.

Sonny Liston took the opposite view. The heavyweight champion of the world was so despondent at having lost his crown to a young Cassius Clay that he was prompted to remark that even elevators didn’t stop for him anymore.