Owen Farrell: ‘I enjoy giving this everything. It’s an obsession’

The Saracens and England player has enjoyed remarkable success of late but those victories have only sharpened his appetite for improvementOwen Farrell is in a striking mood today. It is almost surprising to compare how relaxed and amiable he appears in contrast to the intense and often fiery man who plays for Saracens and England. There is a new lightness to Farrell, at least in the comforting surrounds of Saracens’s training ground in St Albans, and it is only when transcribing his words that it becomes clear how a concentrated ambition beats even more strongly inside him. Related: How the B…