Brad Barritt: ‘I had to be selfish and tell my three-year-old son to fill the ice machine’

The Saracens captain has relied on the goodwill of his family to recover from an ankle injury in time to tackle Munster in Saturday’s Champions Cup semi-finalLittle escapes the TV cameras now poking into every pre-match huddle but, in Brad Barritt’s case, armchair viewers do not know the half of it. Have you ever heard of a player so determined to be fit for a European semi-final that even his three-year-old son has been assisting his rehab? Simply running out for Saracens against Munster in Coventry will be a remarkable achievement for a player who, three weeks ago, feared his season was over…