Former England international Will Greenwood is delighted by the Rugby Football Union’s successful bid for the 2015 World Cup but admits in The Telegraph to being a little jealous of those who will get the opportunity to try to lift the Webb Ellis Cup on home soil.
"I feel relief that our bid had been accepted by the IRB Council; excitement about what a festival of rugby England will host; humility at the honour we have been given to host the third largest sporting event on the planet.
“I also have to confess to feeling a little envy. It is not an emotion I feel often. I have fulfilled many of my life's ambitions. I have won a World Cup winners' medal and have a great job and a wonderful family.
“But I do envy those England players, and in fact all of those players who will now appear on the global stage at the home of English rugby, Twickenham, and a host of other iconic and world-renowned stadiums around the country.”
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