OWEN Farrell is the embodiment of the ‘all for one, one for all’ ethos that is the foundation for winning Lions tours, and also for those that finish on the wrong side of the ledger but are close-run, like South Africa 2009.
Farrell is so stalwart in his defence of the principle that when he was asked in the build-up to the Crusaders match if he knew it was being billed as the fourth Test, his deadpan reply, in an accent that is still broadest Wigan, was: “No. I haven’t heard that.”
Farrell’s message was that there will be no division in the 2017 ranks, h...