{"id":35,"date":"2009-11-04T07:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:15:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T16:15:20","slug":"wilkinson-and-thompson-recalled-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wilkinson-and-thompson-recalled-for-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinson and Thompson recalled for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"jonny_wilkinson_rugby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/jonny_wilkinson_rugby-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"jonny_wilkinson_rugby\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/jonny_wilkinson_rugby-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/jonny_wilkinson_rugby.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Jonny Wilkinson (Fly-half) has been re-called for the International against Australia after an 18 month absence from the International arena along side Thompson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hooker Steve Thompson who has not played for England since 2006 and flanker Lewis Moody return to the squad along side Wilkinson after long time absences.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson and Wilkinson will feature in the same England team for the first time since the 2003 World Cup final triumph against the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Lawes and Ayoola Erinle who have yet to be capped are both on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>11 of the original 32-man squad that England boss Martin Johnson had has been lost to injury including 7 probable starters leading up the game.<\/p>\n<p>The England side will have four members of the squad which lost to Australia 28-14 last season which are captain Steve Borthwick, Tom Croft, Ugo Monye and Care<\/p>\n<p>Thompson who had retired from Rugby after a serious neck injury, has made a remarkable comeback the former Northampton hooker paid back a \u00a3500,000 insurance cheque which he received due to his early retirement and returned to Rugby with club side Brive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Wilkinson (Fly-half) has been re-called for the International against Australia after an 18 month absence from the International arena along side Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[702,77194,698,701,700,695,693,691,692,699,694,690,696,689],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby","tag-2003-world-cup","tag-australia","tag-australia-rugby","tag-ayoola-erinle","tag-courtney-lawes","tag-england-rugby","tag-hooker-steve-thompson","tag-jonny-wilkinson","tag-jonny-wilkinson-fly-half","tag-martin-johnson","tag-steve-thompson-hooker","tag-thompson","tag-thompson-wilkinson","tag-wilkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}