OWEN Farrell was part of an England squad that, a year ago, Eddie Jones believed did not have a single world-class player.
While there is still a sense that England’s strength is more as a collective than as a team stacked with stellar individual talents, there has also been a significant shift, with Billy Vunipola, Maro Itoje and George Kruis pushing their Saracens team-mate, Farrell, all the way to the world-class line.
However, it is the 25-year-old Farrell who has been the first to break the tape, and when he takes the field for his 50th cap against Italy at Twickenham this afte...