Livingston attacker Kurtis Guthrie needed to fly halfway around the world to rediscover his love for the game.Now he’s hoping the Lions will see the benefits.The 29-year-old admitted he’d grown weary of the grind in lower league English football after a decade spent at various fourth and fifth tier clubs down south.So he took a chance and signed for Indian side RoundGlass Punjab in the I-League, the country’s second tier.Turns out, it was just what was needed and he’s now back in the UK with renewed passion and determination.He said: “It had become mundane.
You knew what’s coming before the day had begun and I’d lost that love.“I wanted to go abroad to see if it would reinvigorate me and it did exactly what I hoped it would.
It made me fall back in love with the game. It was a whole new culture, new people, new style of play, new managers. It re-lit a fire and gave me the passion to carry on playing.”He added: “It was a massive culture shock.
Even the Indian boys were all from completely different backgrounds, different religions, different cultures.“In that way, we all galvanised together and you had to learn how to respect other people’s ways of being, religion and stuff like that.
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