Freddie Burns last night told how he delivered his “Jonny Wilkinson moment” to kill fears that history would remember him as the Nearly Man.
Leicester’s back-up fly-half came off the bench to land the last-gasp drop goal which so dramatically won Tigers their first Premiership title for nine years.
“Every fly-half needs a Jonny Wilkinson moment, right!” he said, referring to the England legend’s World Cup-winning kick in 2003.
