Wilkinson wants to go out kicking and screaming in Cardiff and Paris

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

Wilkinson wants to go out kicking and screaming in Cardiff and Paris

England’s 2003 World Cup final match winner leads Toulon into Heineken Cup battle against Saracens at the Millennium Stadium this afternoon with his magnificent career nearing its conclusion.

He is set to bow out for good after next week’s French Top 14 final appointment with Castres in Paris and Toulon coach — former France national team boss Bernard Laporte — has lavished praise on a player who won 91 England caps and scored more than 1,000 Test points.

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