Saying goodbye one last time

OLD habits die hard. Although now officially retired, Keith Wood automatically hauled his weary and slightly hungover body from his bed yesterday morning and headed for the swimming pool for a session with his teammates.

"I thought it was a compulsory swim and I was one of the few players to turn up for it. I was a little confused and don't know whether that was professionalism or pure amateurism."

Wood agreed that he was "very emotional" at the end of Sunday's World Cup defeat by France.