By Kevin Quigley | Daily Mail | Britain |
Welcome back to the Soul of Sport. For the latest episode of the series, KEVIN QUIGLEY travelled to Kent to watch Guru Nanak FC in action.
Founded in 1965, Guru Nanak FC are one of grassroots football’s greatest stories having become one of the first clubs to start running and hosting Asian tournaments in the mid-seventies.
After attracting non-Asian players in the mid-seventies, the club have since become entirely inclusive and welcome all players, regardless of ethnicity, into the teams and out onto the pitch in Gravesend, beneath Europe’s largest Gurdwara.
On this occasion, their veteran side held a fiery encounter that encapsulated all the splendours of grassroots football.
Our cameraman was on the ground to take in the best moments on a day to remember…
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