Italy’s Conor O’Shea: ‘We’re going into our Colosseum this weekend’

Two heavy home Six Nations defeats have given the new Italy head coach an early experience of the pitfalls of the job, but also extra motivation for the daunting prospect of facing England at Twickenham on SundayConor O’Shea knows how Italian rugby is perceived by many outsiders. He has only been the Azzurri’s head coach for a few months but the noises off are wearily familiar. “Everybody is having a pop,” says O’Shea, clearly irritated beneath his ever-positive exterior. “People look for cheap and easy headlines. I would question whether some actually believe it but the world in which we live…