Mid-career autobiographies often grate and in a sporting context, in the knowledge that retirement comes with half-a-life still to live, they tend to feel needlessly premature.
Lewis Hamilton released his, titled ‘My Story’, in 2007, before he had won any of the seven Formula 1 World Championships for which he is known. A year later came Wayne Rooney’s first book, with the same imaginative title and well over half of his 120 England caps still to be won.
