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ENGLAND7s head coach Simon Amor hopes the feel-good factor created around English football by good friend Gareth Southgate filters through to his side with the Rugby World Cup 7s in San Francisco less than a fortnight away.
Amor, 39, has struck up a close relationship with Southgate through UK Sport’s elite coaching programme, in which the nation’s leading head honchos meet regularly to exchange ideas and adopt best practice in pursuit of trophies.
Amor, below, who names his World Cup squad on Tuesday, told The Rugby Paper: &ldq...

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