A few weeks after playing in front of more than 60,000 people in the Indian Super League, Jamie McAllister is back in the UK and set to sample the delights of League Two with Exeter City.

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His new surroundings are a far cry from the heat and humidity of the south west of India, where he spent the second half of 2014 playing for Kerala Blasters. Former Yeovil captain McAllister, 36, was player-coach of Kerala, who were runners-up in the inaugural competition and are co-owned by India cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. "He's got a big passion for football and he wants to try and drive football on and try and make it as big as cricket, if it can be, in India," McAllister told BBC Sport. "Sachin's a very humble man, he's a nice man," he reminisced on a cold January afternoon at Exeter's Cat and Fiddle training ground.