Having gone 35 days without a game, and almost five months since he pulled on a green jersey, Ireland centre Keith Earls is possibly the last person you will find complaining about four games in as many weeks.

He knows very little about Sunday’s Heineken Cup Munster and cannot name one prop that really troubled him, but All Black legend Craig Dowd ia not an arrogant player, merely an honest one. Hugh Farrelly met the family man who is loving his rugby with the Wasps.