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To support your club for more than 70 years is some feat, and Henry Amphlett, aka Alfred Lord Tension, the bard of Kingsholm, has done just that.
His first recollection of seeing Gloucester in action dates back to 1947 when his father and he stood in the Tump end of the Kingsholm ground.
“Like many people in Glouces-ter, supporting the Cherry and Whites is in the blood – you fol-lowed what your father and your grandfather before you had done, even stood where they used to stand. I was bro...

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