Danny Cipriani turned down French clubs to keep England hopes alive

• Cipriani: ‘I’ve played the game just to play for England’• ‘I am the best version of myself right now,’ says fly-halfPatience has not often been a virtue credited to Danny Cipriani but the Wasps fly-half’s reward for sitting on hefty financial offers from French clubs was his first call‑up to the England squad under Eddie Jones and a two-year contract with Gloucester that will make him available for the World Cup next year.When Wasps decided at the beginning of the year not to offer the 30‑year‑old a new contract it was expected he would follow another player who last season turned exasperat…