Alex Corbisiero: ‘Even now people will frown if you say you need a rest’

The England prop who has excelled for the Lions is taking a year out to save his career, and talks of the pressure on rugby players to compete“My body feels great and my mind is refreshed,” Alex Corbisiero says on a sleepy Monday morning in Cobham. Mondays are usually days etched in pain for rugby players. An international prop like Corbisiero is more often seen shuffling around a training ground in the hope that, by the time he plays again the following weekend, he will not feel like an old man who has been hit by a bus.Corbisiero is not recovering from yet another brutal game of rugby. Inste…