Owen Farrell stays positive despite enduring a horror story of a season

Owen Farrell is putting a brave face on it.

But the inescapable truth is that this season has been a horror story.

“I’ve taken it for what it is,” he says philosophically.

“It is all part of being a rugby player.

I’ve just got to keep working hard and keep trying to get better, whether I am injured or not.

” It has, however, been injury that has proved the cruellest of enemies for Farrell this season.

He has started just nine matches for his club Saracens, and though he started three Tests for England last autumn (the third of them in the centre), he has rarely been anywhere near…