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- 1 2 Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David. Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation. pp. 89–111. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
- 1 2 Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David. Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
- ↑ "France (3) 3 - 0 (0) England (FT)". ESPNScrum. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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