How to go out like a champion

There are good ways to go, and bad ways. We're not talking about shuffling off this mortal coil, but the departure closest to it: retiring from sport. It's always hard to get it just right: a final wave to the crowd, a few years of feet up followed by dignified anonymity. Phil Mostert tossed his rugby boots over the stern of the ship bringing home the Springbok team of 1937 that had been victorious in New Zealand and retired to his farm in KZN.