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Mansell sees ‘fantastic opportunity at Gloucester

Lee Mansell is ‘immensely proud’ to manage hometown club Gloucester City – and eager to help the Tigers make up for lost time.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 July 2022

Tigers have to recapture lost territory – and do it quickly
By JOHN LYONS

WEMBLEY WINNERS: Lee Mansell, left, and Torquay teammate Kevin Nicholson savour winning promotion and, inset, celebrating his penalty shoot-out winner for Bristol Rovers
PICTURE: Paul Harding

ROOKIE manager Lee Mansell is ‘immensely proud’ to manage hometown club Gloucester City – and eager to help the Tigers make up for lost time.
Devastating floods in 2007 submerged City’s Meadow Park home and sent them on a nomadic journey that saw them take in stints at Forest Green Rovers, Cirencester Town, Cheltenham Town ...

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