"We so wanted to rouse the French people and it would have been magnificent to bring the trophy home to them.
"Scott Brown had a fantastic game yesterday - led his team on the pitch, picked up the trophy - magnificent," said Collins.
He told BBC Radio Humberside: "It is a magnificent feeling to lift trophies and to do it here would be special.
My boss agreed that these trophies would be magnificent.
John Higgins was magnificent in securing a fourth world trophy, but it was the 21-year-old from Bristol that has left players, supporters, media and kids not even fans of the baize drooling with admiration.
For $40,000 each, the Namibian government recently began allowing trophy hunters to kill these magnificent beings.
The world must get past an era of a handful of people killing the most magnificent animals in the world to adorn their trophy rooms.
Over drinks in the Trophy Room of the New York Yacht Club, a magnificent space crammed with models of past America's Cup yachts, Ellison's consigliore in yachting matters, Tom Ehman, maintains DoGZilla is a bargaining chip.
Finally, and with great portent, there arrives a bull with a magnificent antler, one to take to Boone & Crockett, the trophy scoring club based in Missoula, Mont.
Further evidence of what it still means to win a trophy at Wembley could be seen in the magnificent noisy backing of Sunderland's supporters.
