“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 ...

Andy Farrell has revealed the level of ‘disgusting’ abuse that his son Owen had to cope with while growing up playing rugby league in Wigan. The Ireland head coach was only 16 when he learned that his ...