Summary
SEVERAL times while watching the World Cup my mind drifted to another sport, another stadium and an incident that involuntarily made 60,000 of us wince in horror at someone else's pain.
It was that afternoon at Twickenham when New Zealand's Jonah Lomu launched his pulverising but perfectly legitimate collision with England's Johnny Wilkinson. It was like being hit in the chest by a Panzer tank.See the full content of this document
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Jonny Lifts the Diving Standards
There was only the briefest pause before Wilkinson, shades paler in the face and badly shaken, was back in the fray. No histrionics, no surrender.
There was much to be admired and much to be denigrated at the World Cup, particularly the blatant diving and the constant elbowing, arm-grabbing and shirt-tugging aff...See the full content of this document
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