- James Standley - ±«Óãtv Sport journalist
- 31 Jan 07, 07:13 PM
London - I’ve seen Jonny Wilkinson in an England shirt and he looked good.
OK, it was an England training top and the opposition was only England’s Under-20 side, but all the same it was marvellous to see the gambolling happily around a paddock like he’d never been away.
England held an open training session at Bath University on Wednesday and the first man out on the pitch was, you guessed it, Wilkinson.
He was fully involved throughout the session, talking lots, calling the shots and looking like a man doing what he was born to do.
Continue reading "Here's Jonny!"
- Andrew Cotter - ±«Óãtv Sport commentator
- 31 Jan 07, 01:58 PM
London - "What might have been?" Four words that never should be spoken in professional sport.
So is it ok to at least think them? Because I can't help it when I consider two players on either side of the Calcutta Cup divide on Saturday.
The first is, of course, Jonny Wilkinson - a name which, for the past three years, has been uttered by rugby fans only in conjunction with a furrowed brow, a rueful shake of the head and increasingly wild (and possibly untrue) speculation about his health.
"He'll never play again, of course". "I heard he had to have a stair-lift installed at his house"."Friend of mine said they had to replace his entire left leg with a titanium job. Japanese technology."
Continue reading "The fly-half who never was"
- James Standley - ±«Óãtv Sport journalist
- 31 Jan 07, 08:23 AM
London - Ireland may be favourites for the 2007 Six Nations and there is no doubt they have the most settled team.
For all their strengths they do have one glaring weakness which surely must cost them sooner or later, but the rest of the sides may have even greater problems of their own.
Here, I cast my eye over what will be keeping Messrs Ashton, Jenkins, Hadden, O'Sullivan, Laporte and Berbizier awake at night.
Continue reading "Six Nations weaknesses"
Wales 27-18 England
