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Engage
Paul Kimmage
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Riveting reading, Engage is ultimately an uplifting true story about one man's strength and determination to overcome the odds. On a cold, grey, overcast Tuesday morning in March 2005, the cream of young English rugby gathered at Franklin;s Gardens in Northampton to prepare to play Scotland in the Six Nations Championships. Matt Hampson was one of them. He had dreamed of playing rugby for England ever since he had picked up a rugby ball and had learnt his trade at the hardest school of all - Leicester Tigers - under the tutelage of Martin Johnson, Richard Cockerill and Dusty Hare. He was eight months shy of his 21st birthday, dating a beautiful girl, and playing in an England Under 21 team that included James Haskell, Tom Rees and Toby Flood.
