Before Will Greenwood started breaking down moves off the field, he was doing the business on it – and no match better illustrated the type of marauding centre he was than in a virtuoso performance against Wales.
Greenwood, now a pundit with Sky Sports, rocked the Millennium Stadium at the 2001 Six Nations with a hat-trick that went down in folklore and arguably kicked off England’s golden era. To watch Will Greenwood’s hat-trick against Wales click here. First Greenwood received a Jonny Wilkinson pass while bursting up the middle and then finished a move he was at the heart of, timing his run perfectly to collect Iain Balshaw’s offload and squeeze his way across the try-line. The treble was completed shortly after the interval, combining with Austin Healey before rolling around to his right and applying another clinical finish. Little more than two years later, a renewed Greenwood remained a central piece as England marched towards the 2003 Rugby World Cup – and that victory in Wales was the game that foreshadowed it all. Check back in tomorrow for memories of a Welsh Dragon turned commentator, Jonathan Davies.
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