“Rugby football is a game I can’t claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line [...]
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Jonny Wilkinson has been spotted practising his kicking in Trafalgar Square; he was trying to hit the square’s pigeons with the ball.
“That is what it is all about now,” he said, “the execution of ruthlessness. Our survival depends on it.”
“I missed three from seven; one of those I knew immediately I’d executed wrong, but I was happy [...]
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