Tyne and weary: Truro City’s 914-mile round trip makes English football history

<ul><li><p>National League club’s 12-hour journey ends in 2-2 draw</p></li><li><p>First 90 fans to arrive at Gateshead shared a £920 bar tab</p></li></ul><p>For the players, staff and travelling supporters of Truro City, the gruelling 914-mile round trip to Gateshead was a mixed blessing in the end. The 12-hour bus journey from Cornwall in the south-west all the way up England’s spine to the north-east bore a single point and a free pint or two.</p><p>Truro drew their National League match at 2-2 at Gateshead International Stadium on Saturday having led 2-0 in the 54th minute, in what is turning out to be a season of epic train journeys and unrelenting hauls up and down English A roads and motorways. After goals from Dominic Johnson-Fisher and Christian Oxlade-Chamblerlain, Gateshead rebounded through Kain Adom and, in the 70th minute, Frank Nouble.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/25/truro-city-914-mile-round-trip-makes-english-football-history">Continue reading...</a>