No Wilkinson worry for Johnson but England still facing injury setbacks

MARTIN JOHNSON finds himself in the rare position of being an England coach finalising his Test selection without having to fret over the fitness of Jonny Wilkinson.

Neither Andy Robinson nor Brian Ashton before him enjoyed that same pleasure too often as Wilkinson spent the years after his 2003 World Cup-winning heroics battling through a succession of 13 injuries.

Whenever Wilkinson was available for England it was, by his own admission, no more than a “funny little cameo” before he was sidelined by another frustrating medical mishap.