One of the most striking aspects of Andy Farrell is that he remains a physically imposing man – even when he is sitting down.

As a chubby 10-year-old, Andy Farrell was on a rugby league team who were collected for training in a clapped-out minibus ...

“I’m judged every day by my accent,” says Andy Farrell, in that distinctive Wigan inflection, neither Lancastrian nor Mancunian but a sound all its own. He concedes, too, that there was once a time ...