The Daily Telegraph's Oliver Brown talks to Jonny Wilkinson about the fly-half's future post international retirement.
After a decade’s worth of monastic dedication, complicated by a heartbreaking injury sequence and his own self-reproach after every performance he perceived as imperfect, the hero of 2003 surely merited as much.
But in the wake of his international retirement this month Wilkinson has become, if anything, even more obsessed — to the point where every kick he makes in the red-and-black of Toulon assumes the significance of ‘life and death’.