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It is late summer 2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing Englishman, is given 20 minutes to decide whether he wants to coach Fiji's rugby sevens team, with the aim of taking them to the nation's first-ever Olympic medal. He has never been to Fiji. There has been no discussion of contracts or salary. But he knows that no one plays rugby like the men from these isolated Pacific islands, just as no one plays football like the kids from the Brazilian favelas, or no one runs as fast as the boys and girls from Jamaica's boondocks.

A rugby 7s podcast from Joe Byrnes, Great Britain 7s Captain Tom Mitchell and England's Rich de Carpentier (the one who wears the scrum-hat) giving you the inside scoop on the HSBC World Series 7s in the year where all roads lead to the Tokyo Olympics with the help of some of the biggest names in the game.Your Celestial one-stop pod for all things rugby 7s#OneNightin7thHeaven Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.