Big b**ls are required to leave Scottish football and carve out a career on the continent and beyond. Sadly, I just didn't have them.
As confident and cocky as I can sometimes come across, when it came to the crunch I lacked the confidence in myself to do it. New country, different food and language and style of play? I was just happy to remain under the comfort blanket. It's a regret that I couldn't do what the likes of Aaron Hickey and Liam Henderson have achieved in Italy.
Sometimes it takes a few trailblazers to show others the way but traffic from our top league to foreign European clubs is the latest trend and almost non-existent when I played. Maybe it's our mentality to be a bit parochial. Winning a move to England was everything and I did that, unfortunately I did it back to front by starting down south at Chelsea and coming home to spend most of my career north of the border.
