Jonny Wilkinson has backed the plan to make an example of simulators, after it was announced that players who feign injuries may be sin-binned at the World Cup.

A last-minute World Cup return by Steffon Armitage would have been “disruptive” for England, according to Jonny Wilkinson.

Jonny Wilkinson will play his final game on British shores this weekend lauded as a "once-in-a-generation" talent.

Jonny Wilkinson, who seems to have been groomed as England’s rugby captain ever since he was a 10-year-old schoolboy, knows he has been handed the job for one match only because of injury to regular skipper Martin Johnson.