The Big Interview: Light at the end of the tunnel exists for David Collins

It doesn’t take long to realise David Collins is not your typical county player or young man.

As you wait for him at the reception of Hewlett Packard in Galway, Sky News is on the TV screen and Sepp Blatter is on Sky News.

Watching old Sepp on a swivel chair just showered by a comedian’s dollar bills, you can’t help but laugh at the thought that someone once as hip as Tim Roth who starred in two Tarantino masterpieces stooped to play a cleaner-than-clean Sepp in the unintentionally-farcical recent FIFA propaganda movie United Passions (“Everybody, be cool, this is a robbery!”).