Jonny was great but Jason made the real difference

JEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

I MUST admit I get slightly irritated with seeing social media best players posts that seem to be put up by people who really don’t seem to know what they are looking at.
This even goes for our World Cup win in 2003 with everybody proclaiming Jonny Wilkinson as our match winner, whereas in fact it was someone else who made the difference that enabled the team to win.
No, I’m not decrying Jonny’s drop goal, it was a masterful piece of work under the pressure of such an important opportunity at that stage of the game whic...

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