{"id":109449,"date":"2019-09-09T01:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/09\/jonny-wilkinson-it-took-a-few-years-for-the-pressure-to-really-build-and-then-it-exploded-andy-bull\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T01:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:01:59","slug":"jonny-wilkinson-it-took-a-few-years-for-the-pressure-to-really-build-and-then-it-exploded-andy-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109449","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Wilkinson: \u2018It took a few years for the pressure to really build. And then it exploded\u2019 | Andy Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Wilkinson, England\u2019s World Cup winning fly-half, speaks about his battle with mental illness and why no amount of trophies can ease the pain of depressionIt is October 1999, and a 20-year-old Jonny Wilkinson is sitting on the edge of a bed in Clive Woodward\u2019s hotel room in Paris. Woodward has just told Wilkinson that he is dropping him to the bench for England\u2019s World Cup quarter-final against South Africa at the Stade de France that weekend. Woodward has chosen instead to play Paul Grayson, who is eight years older and has a dozen more caps. \u201cI remember it so well,\u201d Wilkinson says now. \u201cI looked at Clive and I said: \u2018Mate, I think it is a great idea, I think he is a brilliant player and the team will go brilliantly with him. I\u2019m young. My time will come.\u2019\u201dWilkinson wonders what happened to that 20-year-old, and what he would have thought of the player he grew into. \u201cI look back now, and I can\u2019t believe the maturity I had then, how free I was, compared to the player I became, so wrapped up in my own self-importance and reputation.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/sep\/08\/jonny-wilkinson-mental-iilness-rugby-union\" target=\"_blank\">Jonny Wilkinson: \u2018It took a few years for the pressure to really build. And then it exploded\u2019 | Andy Bull<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Wilkinson, England\u2019s World Cup winning fly-half, speaks about his battle with mental illness and why no amount of trophies can ease the pain of depressionIt is October 1999, and a 20-year-old Jonny Wilkinson is sitting on the edge of a bed in Clive Woodward\u2019s hotel room in Paris. Woodward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}