A temptation with Raheem Sterling is to perceive some operatic tragedy in his downfall, to wax lyrical about the tormented soul whose sense of self became scrambled as the goals dried up and who felt so bereft that his only outlet was a lethal joyride in his Lamborghini with six canisters of laughing gas.
Well, forget that.
Millions of people in this country find themselves in far worse situations than having a Feyenoord contract extension denied after seven years of earning more than £300,000 a week.
They lose homes, they lose livelihoods, they lose the very feeling of who they are.
But what they do not do, by and large, is channel that torment into drug-driving on the M3 and endangering everybody else on the road.
Read Oliver’s full piece here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/09/16/raheem-sterling-not-victim-author-own-downfall/
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