A lot can happen in 20 months. However the qualification to this broad generalisation is that although 600 days is probably enough time to succeed in anything it is definitely enough time to fail, 600 days over.
Success and failure are like good and bad reputations. It takes ages to properly attain the prior yet you can wash it away in the drop of a hat, a ball, a place, a position, a wicket, a girl, a share price, a standard, a sms, a baby etc...
It is this theory that makes it so easy to go off the rails, but so hard to get back on. [especially if being off them is sooo good] Now that I have gained your undivided attention through such hard work I better get along with it before it drops off...
You see. This saturday sees the return of someone whose success broke the recently unveiled mould as it was close to meteoric. He extended the continuum of fucking with my theory and by spending a long time failing. [I am just going to call them unrelated pockets of individual failures than one big long one so as not to rebut my argument]
"Off-field controversies [fat girlfriends, controversial autobiographies and speeding fines can ruin a man] , injury, suspension and a loss of form over the last 20 months have all combined to keep Henson from fulfilling his true potential." That's a direct quote from www.planet-rugby.com. Well guess what, he is back and you better put down your study notes to witness his return at 16h30 on saturday against Australia.
It may just surpass the All Blacks turning out at Twickenham as the best thing to watch on TV this weekend...
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