JUST OVER SIX months after retiring in a blaze of glory, it seems as though Jonny Wilkinson got a little ahead of himself for the first time in his life last night.
England’s World Cup-winning out-half was widely expected to be honoured with a knighthood in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s honours list and even tweeted out what looked like the gist of a humble acceptance speech.
However, HRH obviously isn’t as big a fan of Top14 rugby as everyone thought because rather than arising this morning as Sir Jonny, he remains just a simple OBE after being omitted from the Queen’s list.
The European and French champion with Toulon did manage to row back on his original (now deleted) Tweet to offer congratulations to all the non-perfect people who did make it on this year’s list.
Maybe next year, JW.
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