Former England Player Claims Owen Farrell ‘Hated’ Him After Drunken Toilet Row

“On the pitch, I struggle a lot with Owen Farrell. We just don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things.”
“He’s the best 10 in the world — incredibly good — I’ve got enormous respect for him as a player. But he frustrates the hell out of me when I play against him.”

“He hates me with a passion … I bagged rugby league once jovially — said it was ‘a bloody sport for peasants’ — and he f***ing hated it.”
“Out in Italy or maybe France he fully lost the plot … he had a bit of a shout at me and stormed off to the toilet, so I followed him.”

“His dad Andy walked in. Owen was like, ‘I don’t want to f***ing hear it,’ and tried to slam the door into me. The door hit the stopper and nearly bounced back into him.”

“It was a drunken bit of argy that went too far. Owen’s incredibly competitive … in every game between us there’s an edge. A tackle, a run, a collision. I’m sure he’s sometimes thinking, ‘Don’t even know Dave’s playing’ — but for me there’s always something.”