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Legendary Swedish screen siren Greta Garbo declared in 1941 at the ripe old age of 36 that she would be taking a "temporary" retirement.

There's Alex Ferguson, who has lived to a ripe old age, but he's in the same camp.

But then he had discussed it with ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone and US racing mogul Roger Penske, who are both, as he put it, "still working at quite a ripe old age and are still very mentality agile".

Can — at the ripe old age of 25 — had been judged and weighed by soccer’s elite, and found wanting.

"A lot of the old American bluesmen I grew up listening to didn't start their careers until they were already a ripe old age, so I'm not going to let nearly turning 60 bother me," he added.