England’s 2003 World Cup heroes discover that winning doesn’t take care of everything
Jonny Wilkinson of England kicks the winning drop-goal against Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final at the Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia. 'What I was suffering from was a disconnection from myself.' Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Getty Images
The top 25 women’s sporting moments of the year: top spot revealed with Katie Taylor, Rhasidat Adeleke and Kellie Harrington featuring One of the great themes of the programme is vulnerability. As rugby players, they did everything in their power to reject it or conceal it. For all of them, though, weakness was the enemy within that needed to be routed at all costs. In their pomp, that team was the embodiment of unblinking ferocity.
Woodward talked about a gruelling scrum session two days after his first international cap against New Zealand in 2002. He said he suddenly felt like somebody had “stabbed me in the back”. The physio cleared him to continue with the session and he hit the scrum machine “10 or 12 more times”. Vickery has been told by specialists that he probably has CTE which causes the death of nerve cells in the brain and is commonly linked to repeated head injuries.
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