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    WORKING WONDERS

    Aug 20, 2019 5 minutes
    Words Alan Dymock
    Main Picture Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

    WHEN ENGLAND head coach Eddie Jones calls someone a “tough bugger”, it is up there with the highest praise the Australian can bestow. Then England forwards coach Neal Hatley Hat adds that the same player “works his his backside off” while 77-cap back-row James Jam Haskell lauds their leg-tackling and and engine. You get an image of a grizzled colossus; a monosyllabic beast.

    Then Th Mark Wilson comes in with a smile , puts out a palm and sits to talk about England’s World Cup prep.

    His story is not so much Jekyll and Hyde – or should that be Tackle and Kin Kind? – but England’s new favourite back-row dynamo is respected for both his eye-watering work-rate on the field and his softly-spoken nature off it. Having finally got his Test breakthrough at 27, in 2017, many voiced relief that a key

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