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Football on Sundays

Gurpreet was devoted to Wolverhampton Wanderers with a consistency and good humour that the club did not always deserve. He went to home matches for twenty years. He took Navneet for the first time when she was nine and she immediately became more interested in the pies than the football, which he found hilarious and slightly disappointing. He kept going. He watched them win the championship in 2024 on television at home, standing up for the last ten minutes, which was as demonstrative as he ever got about sport.

Harpreet Kaur · 8 Jun 2026

He Fixed My Boiler

I know this is a small thing against everything else people are saying but it is the kind of thing that tells you who someone is. My boiler failed in January, the coldest week. I mentioned it at work in passing and Gurpreet drove over that evening, looked at it for twenty minutes, found the part, came back the next morning and fixed it. He refused money. He brought naan bread for my children. He said the naan was from Harpreet and the repair was from him and both were free of charge. That is who he was.

Khalid Rahman · 8 Jun 2026

The Infrastructure Project

I worked with Gurpreet on the Wolverhampton ring road drainage scheme in 2019 and he was the best engineer on the project — not the loudest, but the one whose assessments you could rely on. He had the quality of saying exactly as much as was needed and no more. When something was wrong he said so clearly and without drama. When something was right he said that too. It made him easy to work with and it made the project better. I did not know him well outside work but I am very glad I knew him in it.

Ravi Venkataraman · 8 Jun 2026

The Langar Kitchen

He ran the langar kitchen for five years and he cooked every Sunday he was not travelling for work. He was up at four to have the dal ready by seven. He never delegated the seasoning to anyone else because he had strong opinions about it and was not prepared to compromise. After the new kitchen was finished he stood in the middle of it for about five minutes and did not say anything. I knew he was very pleased. He said "well, that'll do" and then went and washed up.

Harpreet Kaur · 8 Jun 2026

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