By PETER JACKSON
OWEN FARRELL has emerged as a candidate to captain the Lions this summer according to one of the game’s most revered figures.
Jim Telfer, a four-tour Lions veteran as player, coach and head coach, believes England’s matchwinner has pushed himself into consideration at the age of 25 as an alternative to the leading contenders, Alun- Wyn Jones and Rory Best.
Telfer, part of the management team behind Martin Johnson’s inspired choice as Lions captain in 1997 before he led England, is in no doubt that Farrell could make the same quantum leap this summer.
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