Roy Keane admitted recently that, when playing, his 'hard-man image was just an act'. He used it as a means of intimidating both his team mates as well as his opponents.
What issues does this give rise to in coming to terms with the 'real you' when sportspeople retire from active sport and seek to make a transition to the next stage of their life? In the words of Paul Gascoigne " I was living a plonky life, being a plonky person, being Gazza instead of being Paul Gascoigne".
On the same theme, Matthew Syed of the Times wrote the following, when at The Masters tennis tournament in London, December 2004 "Wilander and Mikael Pernfors were most at home with their post-tennis identities for the good reason that they never surrendered their pre-tennis identities. With Scandinavian common sense, they partook of the fame without ever believing in it"
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