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AAP Sports News (Australia)
11-14-2003
RU: Cares of the world on Wilkinson's shoulders

By John Mehaffey

SYDNEY, Nov 12 Reuters - Careworn, tortured, burdened obsessive.

These were not adjectives that were meant to be tumbling from the word processors as
the world media considered England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson.

But as the Rugby World Cup enters its final stages, they are being freely used to describe
a man hailed by some English writers as the best player in the world.

What has gone wrong? On the surface not a whole lot. Wilkinson has been hesitant and
sometimes laboured. So have England.

But Wilkinson has also kicked most of his goals. And England, who meet France in Sunday's
...

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