Maro Itoje: England beating Ireland won’t be easy – but we will be ready

Lock is chilled and into politics but able to switch into a fierce competitor, focused on the Six Nations and World CupWith the majority of sports people what you see is essentially what you get. With Maro Itoje it is more complicated. “Are you asking about Maro the person or Maro the rugby player?” he says, more than once. Not everyone would draw a major distinction but, in Itoje’s mind, there is clearly a sizeable gap. That familiar terrace refrain – “There’s only one Maro Itoje!” – is not really applicable in his case.This is no identikit jock, thinking only of his next training session. He…