It’s June 17, 2013. On some waste ground in an industrial park in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, lies the body of Odin Lloyd. The semi-professional American football player shot multiple times, execution style.

As local police retrace Lloyd’s final movements, the investigation quickly leads detectives to the door of Aaron Hernandez, tight end for Tom Brady’s NFL Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots. All this happens in the context of Pro Bowl-er Hernandez signing a five-year $39.58m contract extension with the Patriots the previous October.

From Germany’s first proper tennis champion to prison in South London; a flame-haired hero flames out.

From youngest-ever winner of Wimbledon to doing eight months (of a two-year stretch) at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, few have trod the line between idol and idiot with the panache of Boris Becker.