British and Irish Lions 2025: Owen Farrell on criticism he faces
When Owen Farrell deepened in the interview room in the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, he was talking about the honor and excitement that he felt that he was called the Captain of British and Irish lions against the first nations and Pacific XV on Tuesday.
Deep and attractive. Honest and rivet. After not playing any ragbi within nine weeks and taking a break from the UK within 20 months, after playing in the test arena, there was a protest between sports followers.
Very few players in the global game have the capacity to turn calm conversations into oral wars such as Farrell. Barmy but real.
The name was professional and con – provoking the heated debate and that was when his father called him in the middle of the tour. Leather and hair flew in Cyberland.
At the Marvel Stadium, he was asked whether he understood this phenomenon, and this incredible passion provoked in Rugby people.
“Not really, no,” he said. “No, not much,” he repeated 33 -year -old.
“But now I understand that it’s different. I understand that time is different and that things hurt faster.
“Things grow legs, take their own lives, where do you go and there is momentum behind. But no, I don’t always understand.”
There was a confusion there. A touch of sadness, almost. The former England captain, one of the biggest players of the generation, was not only about talent and leadership, but also on the capacity to allow it to be washed on all the stamps he faced.
Still, it is damaged. He’s not a machine. When the obstacles spoke on Monday, we fell into a touch and took a look at another side. And it was interesting.
As online, there is a lot of poison and a lot of praise for him. Can it block them all?
“Both are a poison,” he said.
As they both?
“Good and bad. Not to say that everything is bad, but the important to me, and players are important to us, things that should be important,” he added.
“If you go and knock on someone’s door and ask for your ideas about how you play at the weekend, you will not really listen to your answers.
“I think the people we have to listen to are suitable rugby people – your friends.
“There are people to tell you where it is at the same time, but they will give you a real answer.
“If you do this and you are in a good place yourself, you can deal with it.”
Nevertheless, is it difficult to freeze all the negativity and all kindness directed to you?
“At that time it depends on which place you are connected to because the times when people can say it, the other and only pass over you,” he said.
“And there are times when you are not in the best place of all time, and you are waiting for almost something to close you.”
