Richard Williams, of the Guardian, looks at back at happier times for Martin Johnson.
"Rewind the past three and a half years, then erase the tape. Remember Martin Johnson the way he deserves to be remembered, as the dark-browed, monosyllabic, iron-clad lock who led England to the finest hour in their rugby history and then retired to watch his small daughter grow up. Not as the man who sat down at Twickenham to announce his departure from a job he should never have been offered in the first place.
There are people you don't mind watching take a bit of pain, usually as a payback for getting above themselves, but Johnson is not one of them. No one reaches the heights he scaled as a player without acquiring a certain confidence in their own abilities, yet neither as captain of England nor as team manager did he display anything you could reasonably describe as arrogance. Impatience with those he considered fools or timewasters, now that was another thing."
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