Boris Becker might be going to jail a hero to so many in the UK in the tennis world in general. After winning Wimbledon as an unseeded 17 year old many years ago, he was once worth 38 million. Now he's not only bankrupt but guilty of hiding assets to avoid tax. This is not the end of a hero. It's just the act of a man, any man and would find himself in possession of so much money at a young age. But he wasn't young when he did these things. This is the first time he's been in trouble with tax. So just because you're gifted in sports doesn't mean you're gifted in businesses we've seen by so many sportsmen and women ended up in bankruptcy court later in life after discovering that the money tap does actually get turned off and some advisers, and not as well meaning is that they should be. Dear Keith. I never meant to break the line ever meant to do anything wrong. I was following advice from people who knew better than me, and now I have nothing. What can you be when you were once great? It's been very hard to cope with being an ex tennis player for longer than I was a tennis player. I've coached commentated, but the main part of my life, felt over a long time ago on for too long have been tabloid fodder. I didn't mean to do anything wrong, Dear Boris. In 2000 and two, you received a suspended prison sentence and a fine for tax evasion. It's one thing to say you didn't mean to do anything wrong. It's another to have done it before and continue to do so. Taxes, complex and innocents get caught up. But it's also possible to recognise the language being used to prompt such deception. Then you're not a stupid man. I'm sure it's hard to lose the status of hero when your career ended. But paying tax isn't even heroic. It's boring, unnecessary. But by this active evasion, you will surely never again gain the status of hero
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