Over and out

THEY say hard men don’t cry. Don’t believe a bit of it.

I doubt if they come any tougher than Keith Wood but an hour after yesterday's draining World Cup defeat by France, he'd done little but shed tears since Jonathan Kaplan blew full time on an amazing career.

"It's doubly emotional for me today, losing a World Cup quarter-final and facing up to the fact that I must retire from rugby. I have the desire, I'd love to play on for another 10 years but the honest truth is that the body has had enough."