Stuart Lancaster has made a positive impression as England's interim head coach
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The Telegraph's Mick Cleary talks to Stuart Lancaster about how he is dealing with extra pressures and scrutiny of being England head coach.
“You’ve got to keep ahead of things and early morning is the best time to get peace and quiet,” said Lancaster, who routinely rises at 5am to work for two hours before breakfast.
“You’ve got to have a certain resilience to be England head coach in any sport. There are a lot of demands on you and you’ve got to have an inner strength to deal with it.
“One of the big challenges is to ensure that your family is happy with it all. You’re in your bubble with England so that takes care of itself. But you have responsibilities to your family to deal with, of course you do. You’re likely to be away 20 weeks of any given year. That’s a lot of time apart.
“That’s why it was important to get home last Sunday, even if only for a few hours, see everyone, take the kids [Daniel and 10-year-old Sophie] to school the next morning, and then leave again.
And the West Park kids? “Well, I’ll have to ask for dispensation.”
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