MORE THAN JUST A GAME!

TO SOME people, England C’s Bank Holiday Monday meeting with Nepal at Aldershot Town’s EBB Stadium might seem like just another random end-of-season fixture in search of a home.

- Steve Gibbs

But to residents of the town proud to be known across the world as ‘Home of the British Army’, it is a match steeped in history and rich in cultural significance.

Many will think it’s the long-overdue second leg of a 2015 tie, when the Shots’ Academy side became the first ever European team to play in Nepal. Or, for some of Aldershot’s 10,500 Nepalese residents, it is the latest milestone in a journey which began in 1815.

That was the year the first Gurkha troops were recruited into the British Army.