On This Day: England win the 2003 Rugby World Cup

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It's been 20 years since Jonny Wilkinson drop-kicked England to a dramatic extra-time victory over Australia.
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00:00 With someone like Johnny in that position, you know he's not going to miss those opportunities.
00:05 To be in that team in 2003, going into the final against Australia,
00:26 probably the most I've ever felt under pressure in my entire career.
00:32 We went through bits that created the team
00:45 and to get to that point that when we needed to make sure we could deliver, we did.
00:50 We were just so excited to be in that position and to be able to deliver.
00:55 It's all the training he's ever done, that's what he was made to do.
01:11 With someone like Johnny in that position, you know he's not going to miss those opportunities.
01:19 That's all the training he's ever done, that's what he was made to do.
01:30 What it represents and embodies is every minute of every game that people fight for.
01:39 They spend their lives preparing for doing whatever it takes to try and just be near
01:45 enough to that to get to a final, to be able to pick it up and say I did it.
01:49 And that thing embodies that.

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