A muddy building site next to a retail park on a grey, wet Thursday is not the place you’d expect to find one of English rugby’s most high-profile players. But Ellis Genge is certainly no ordinary sportsman and his club, Bristol Bears, undoubtedly like to do things differently.
‘If you walk 400 metres back that way, you’ll see my childhood house,’ said Genge, gesturing over his shoulder after swapping the white England shirt he wore in front of 80,000 people at Twickenham last month for a new look of hard hat and high-vis jacket.
‘Mental, isn’t it? It is a bit emotional to be here. I love it. Home will always be home.’
The Knowle West area of Bristol is where Genge grew up. And it is there, next to neighbouring borough Hartcliffe, where the England prop this week officially launched his first venture with the charity fund that bears his name.
The Genge Fund was set-up by the 29-year-old – who is a proud Bristolian –…
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