Owen Farrell: ‘Confidence can be elusive – you don’t know you’ve lost it’

The England and Saracens fly-half on how a degree course has helped him examine his mistakes and become calmer on the pitch“The thing I liked about it most,” Owen Farrell says, “was having a look at yourself and what you’re doing. Seeing and understanding how things happened.”On the verge of a new year, after a tumultuous 2018 in which he became England’s captain amid the team losing five Tests in a row following a winning run of 18 games, Farrell reflects on his recently completed university degree rather than his crucial role in steadying a country’s fluctuating rugby fortunes. Yet it is int…