‘I’m doing the best job in the world’: Billy Sharp finds a new dawn in LA

The former Sheffield United forward has made an instant impact in MLS. He's still scoring goals, and leading a late-season revival for LA Galaxy

Billy Sharp has entered the sunset phase of his career. The phase where he admires the setting sun from his home near the beach, that is. The phase where he drives along Sunset Boulevard.

This is not, he stresses, the time when he fades away, light dimming as he sinks silently out of view. Even though Sharp is 37 and he is, as far as English football is concerned, almost beyond the horizon.