Stewart left India to face pandemic pandemonium
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“The final over there was surreal. I think there were only 70 people allowed in between the two clubs and also officials and television technicians and people like that.
“I had never experienced that before. With two days' notice we were told it was to be played behind closed doors.
“If people had asked beforehand do you want the final played but it was going to be behind closed doors, everybody would have agreed and in the circumstances it was the right thing to do.
“The strangest thing was the fact that you knew it was a final and the biggest game in the Indian League.
“I had watched Wolfsburg against Shakhtar Donetsk in a closed-doors game on television and you could hear every player shouting, it was a strange feeling and it was the exact same in the final.
“But when the game started you just got into the game that much, you blocked everything.”
Stewart and former Airdrie team-mate Coyle's travels have taking them from
Wigan to Ross County to Houston Dynamo among other destinations and their success in India has elicited interest that will be considered in due course, after much-needed family time.
Stewart said: “My daughter had just had my first grandchild before I left so it is time to catch up.
“It was only meant to be 11 weeks over there but because we did that well, going from joint bottom of the league into the play-off and then the final, that extended the season for us.
“It was a very enjoyable experience. The football was good, the pitches were good, it was well organised.
“It was better than I would have given it credit for before I went out there.
“Each team is allowed seven foreigners who bring the standard up but there is some good young Indian players and they are only going to get better.”