{"id":2376,"date":"2014-06-01T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2014-06-01T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T10:33:08","slug":"wilkinson-ready-for-swansong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/wilkinson-ready-for-swansong\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinson ready for swansong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris &#8211; Toulon captain Jonny Wilkinson will take to the field in the Top 14 final against Castres on Saturday for the final match of his professional career, but he insists he&#8217;s had lots of practice for this moment.<\/p>\n<p>The former England fly-half, who famously kicked the last-gasp winning drop goal against Australia to hand his country their only World Cup victory in 2003, says he&#8217;s always played every rugby match as if it was his last.<\/p>\n<p>So for that moment to finally arrive, Wilkinson says it all feels normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a relatively simple mindset and everything because it&#8217;s been the same throughout my career because I&#8217;ve always only ever worried about and concerned myself with the game that&#8217;s coming,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/sport\/rugby\/world\/wilkinson-ready-for-swansong-1.1696694#.U4sAKvmSync\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Rugby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris &#8211; Toulon captain Jonny Wilkinson will take to the field in the Top 14 final against Castres on Saturday for the final match of his professional career, but he insists he&#8217;s had lots of practice for this moment. The former England fly-half, who famously kicked the last-gasp winning drop goal against Australia to hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[186,185,183,1268,114,120,80,40,184,43,1270],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-castres","tag-jonny-wilkinson","tag-paris","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-toulon","tag-toulon-captain-jonny-wilkinson","tag-wilkinson","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}