THE road up to England’s Holiday Inn digs in Le Touquet was decorated with shirts emblazoned with the entire squad’s names plus coach Steve Borthwick’s. Also the main square near their hotel had a huge rugby ball in the middle surrounded by metallic red roses. The most English of French towns is supporting them, until they play France, according to mayor Daniel Fasquelle. The local airport is even being named after the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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