REED IT AND WEEP, ANGE

From Back Page Marinakis (inset), comparing his survival battle to his boyhood scraps on the playground.

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The 60-year-old said: "Seriously, what's wrong with something being hard? What's wrong with that? Why do we want everything delivered nicely packaged?"

"I'm sure your parents had a struggle in their life and they didn’t give up.

“You might even have been a lost cause at some point, but they didn’t give up on you.

“It seems these days as soon as something goes wrong, it’s right, that's it, it's wrong, we'll change it.