Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face

Raheem Sterling’s sporting career may have come to a hard stop at the age of 31. Raheem Sterling’s sporting career may have come to a hard stop at the age of 31. Soccer Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face Jonathan Liew Winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned

This is how a story ends. At 9.13 on a glorious May morning, by the side of the A327, sitting in the passenger seat of a wrecked Lamborghini, feverishly stashing canisters of nitrous oxide into the back, having to recite one’s name from scratch. A police officer asks him who was driving the car at the time it smashed into a metal pole on a country road in Hampshire. Sterling says nothing. There’s nobody sitting in the driver’s seat.