By PAUL REES

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Leicester v Gloucester
Saturday December 24. Kick-off 3pm

Learning fast: Skivington

George Skivington does not expect the loss of head coach Steve Borthwick to England to make a shred of difference when his side travel to Leicester’s lair on Christmas Eve.
Borthwick turned the Tigers from basement battlers to champions in two years, one reason why he was Twickenham’s first choice to succeed Eddie Jones.

“Anyone who did not know that appointment was coming would have had their head in the sand,” said Skivington, Gloucester’s head coach. “I do not think it w...