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MARTIN PAGE-RELO

ITALIAN RUGBY has been in thrall to Ange Capuozzo for the past couple of years, and it turns out that Azzurri supporters have the elfin attacker to thank for Martin Page-Relo too.

Before moving to Lyon last summer, the livewire nine was at Toulouse, where team-mates included not only Antoine Dupont but Capuozzo, the French-born full-back who qualifies to wear the (other) blue shirt through grandparents from Naples.

It came up in conversation that Page-Relo also has Italian heritage – his maternal grandparents, André and Leonilda, are from the

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