Kallum's Kash Flow Problem

Striker was in lockdown hell long before rest of us at Real Kashmir

- Fraser Wilson

Kallum Higginbotham flew into the centre of a lockdown nightmare long before Scotland was brought to a halt by coronavirus.

Stuck in a hotel thousands of miles from home with no phone lines or internet permitted and where cows and wild dogs roamed the streets, the former Dunfermline winger could have been forgiven for doing an immediate U-turn.

Higginbotham couldn’t have timed touching down at Real Kashmir worse as the state’s partial autonomy was put under threat with a militarised lockdown imposed last August.

Now back home with fiancee Nicole and kids Mia and Alfie in Edinburgh the 30-year-old lifted the lid on the crazy world that became his normal.

It was centre stage in the hit BBC Scotland documentary Return to Real Kashmir, following former Rangers and Aberdeen star David Robertson’s life and strife in the Indian football outpost.

English ace Higginbotham said: “That documentary was just a fraction of the story.

“I ’ve never experienced anything like it – but I’d be kicking myself if I never took the opportunity.

“The manager had warned me about some of the things that had happened out there, bombings and stuff like that, but nothing could have prepared me for what I landed in.