Andy and Owen Farrell: 'You’d hear one of them talk and you wouldn’t know which one it was’

Of the myriad storylines that always surround an England-Ireland clash, there are very few that can match this week’s narrative of the home captain going up against the visiting head coach.

Andy and Owen Farrell: 'You’d hear one of them talk and you wouldn’t know which one it was’

Of the myriad storylines that always surround an England-Ireland clash, there are very few that can match this week’s narrative of the home captain going up against the visiting head coach.

We have had Farrell v Farrell contests before, since father Andy became Ireland’s defence coach in 2016 and had to plot a path to stopping son Owen, whether he was pulling the strings for England at fly-half or inside centre.

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