Owen Farrell: ‘If you’re not growing with rugby you get left behind’

The Saracens fly-half’s relentless dedication has taken him to 540 Test points and, aged just 25, he has every chance of breaking Jonny Wilkinson’s England recordRomantics are few in professional rugby union nowadays. The drone hovering in the grey afternoon sky above Saracens’ training ground is an illustration, tracking the players’ every move. Human assistants stare unblinkingly at GPS readings on their iPads, almost as if the distant on-field figures are remotely controlled. It is not an environment for the shy or diffident; literally and psychologically there is nowhere to hide. To surviv…