Nathan Collins - The Football Interview
Football Daily
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ποΈ 13 March 2026
β±οΈ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this weekβs edition of the Football Interview, Kelly Somers speaks to Brentford and Republic of Ireland captain Nathan Collins. They discuss his journey into football coming from a footballing family and moving to England at the age of 15 to join Stoke City's academy. He talks about being the first in his family to play for Republic of Ireland and their chances of making the World Cup this summer. He also speaks about life at Brentford under Keith Andrews.
0β30 - First memories of playing football and always being around football 1β30 - Could he have ended up in Gaelic football and first football team 2β40 - His first big break and coming over to England at 15 3β53 - What game would he relive? 5β00 - Has he allowed himself to think about making the play off with Ireland? 5β30 - Keith Andrews coming in and his relationship with him 6β45 - What was he like as a youngster and family 8β36 - How he spends his spare time 9β40 - What do people get wrong about him? 10β49 - What would he be if he wasnβt a footballer? 11β00 - Post football 12β00 - Proudest moment and what else he wants to achieve
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| 0:59.9 | And this week's guest is the Brentford captain Nathan Collins. |
| 1:03.1 | Let's firstly talk about your first memory of playing football. |
| 1:07.6 | One memory that always pops into my head, it was my first goal at like four or five and I took it around the keeper and I scored. I don't know if it actually happened. I don't think anyone know if it actually happened, but it always just popped into my mind. There's no witnesses to this. Potentially not. I've never actually said it really openly. So I think it happens, but I'd be surprised if it didn't. If I just had no with had no, it's so clearly. Take me back to that time in your life. Was football a big thing? I grew up at football, basically. Like, everything I'd done throughout my whole life was with football, or any kind of ball, really. I played a lot of Gaelic football as a kid. I would have trained football twice with my team during the week, and then I would have trained twice with my Gaelic team and then I had a football match on the weekend and then a Gaelic match on the weekend. So when parents would drive me to my match, watch that match, finish that match, go home, eat something really quick, straight back out the door from another match and then they'd go to the pub and relax and they were finishing with me then. They were happy. Was there ever a chance you could have gone into Gaelic football rather than football? Well you could admit it. I was not bad. I was, when I was that age, I was bigger than everyone. I'd have to run over everyone. So I had that advantage. I'd love it. I'd love to go back and play one day or when I finish football. I really enjoy it. Talk me through your first football team then. You've told me about this goal that the jury's out on whether it got scored or not. |
| 2:19.6 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 2:20.6 | What was the first proper team that you played for? First proper team would have been Cherry Orchard. I think my granddad was a coach in some time. He might have played for them. My dad played for my uncle played for my cousin played for them. My other uncle played, my older brother played, my younger brother played. |
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