Manu Tuilagi: ‘I always expect to be good and that is the pressure’

The Leicester centre is feeling the benefit of sessions with a sports psychologist and expects his team’s fortunes to improve quickly despite a torrid start to the Premiership seasonManu Tuilagi is reflecting on a run of injuries that have plagued his career at the very point the Leicester centre should have been in his prime. “Life is never a straight road,” he says, unless, that is, he has the ball under an arm and a hapless defender in his sights. It was not an observation he would have made when the rugby world seemed to be at his feet five years ago, an England international and a Lion wh…