How Jonny's World Turned All Black ; Thought World Cup Hero Jonny Wilkinson Was a Mere Goal-Kicking Rugby Machine? Think Again. In This Exclusive Interview, He Talks with Compelling Honesty About the Obsession That Broke His Body, His Mind and His Belief in His Own Invincibility.

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Everyone knows that Jonny Wilkinson, the world's most celebrated and handsomely paid rugby player, is in the middle of the most difficult game of his life. Famously crocked, and therefore cut off from the game and training regime for which he lives, the opposition now consists not of South Africans, Australians or even All Blacks, but of demons mental and physical demons, those of his own making, and those that have arrived seemingly out of the blue.

What no one may have realised is quite where this contest appears to have taken him mentally.

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How Jonny's World Turned All Black ; Thought World Cup Hero Jonny Wilkinson Was a Mere Goal-Kicking Rugby Machine? Think Again. In This Exclusive Interview, He Talks with Compelling Honesty About the Obsession That Broke His Body, His Mind and His Belief in His Own Invincibility.

In a little under two hours, a man who is supposed to be single- minded to the point of being let's be honest something of a bore, talks so compellingly and with such utter honesty of his conflicts that it's a complete revelation.

He has, he says 'massively lost my way'; he talks of plumbing the depths of depression, of his mind wandering, of the time he broke down in a dressing room in France after yet another physical collapse and shed bitter tears of frustration...

and then of fate, of universal 'balances of energy', the...

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