The Daily Mail's Chris Foy provides his take on the legend that is Jonny Wilkinson.
"It shouldn’t have ended the way it did. After all the graft and the glory, the acclaim and the commitment, all the injury, pain and all those hours and years of lonely practice and rehab, Jonny Wilkinson deserved better.
The last image of the iconic No 10 was captured at Eden Park, Auckland, on October 8 this year as England imploded against France in a World Cup quarter-final that was there for the taking. In the final moments of that grim ordeal, there was Wilkinson on the bench, head in his hands.
It was a stark, sad sight. Here was the man who had done so much to deliver Test success having to accept desperate, crushing disappointment."
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