Since moving to the UAE I have watched the development of the Arabian Gulf League with interest. When I arrived it was a league that was aspiring to be something much better than it was. They were desperate to make the league a credible league, not a backwater…

Four years ago I took an opportunity to head out to the UAE and left my native North east England on a grand adventure. Not quite like TE Lawrence but in many ways I have never looked back, experienced some amazing things in a land of real opportunity…