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What happens to those managers who suddenly find there’s no longer a place for them in the game? Like Michael Henchard, the tragic lead in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge who dies bankrupt and discredited, one fears that there’s no way that Paul Sturrock will be able to correct his sullied record and that he will see out his Saturdays in front of Jeff Stelling & co. The comparison runs deeper. For the guilt that hangs over Henchard’s head for much of his life after selling his wife and child at market, read Sturrock’s regretful decision to leave the…