🔗 Share this article The Cornish club's Record-Breaking 914-Mile Round Trip Creates English Football Record Regarding the players, staff, and travelling supporters from the Cornish outfit, the gruelling 914-mile round trip to face Gateshead proved bittersweet ultimately. The 12-hour bus journey from Cornwall in the south-west all the way up England’s spine to the north-east region bore a single point plus complimentary drinks. The team tied the National League fixture two goals apiece away at Gateshead this past Saturday having led 2-0 in the 54th minute, during what is becoming a season of epic train journeys and tireless road trips across England's highways. After goals from Johnson-Fisher and Oxlade-Chamberlain, Gateshead rebounded via Adom and a 70th-minute equalizer from Nouble. “Clubs that come down to us, most of them are flying down and staying over on the Friday, so for us to have to do it on the coach is not ideal, but because we have so many long journeys, that’s the way we have to do it.” — John Askey Earlier in the season Truro have made a trek to Carlisle for a 3-0 defeat covering 878 miles. Due to the team's remote location, even their nearest away game is against Yeovil Town, around a two-and-a-half-hour schlep via the A30 to Huish Park, 130 miles each way. Unifying Effect from Extended Journeys On Saturday the initial 90 supporters were treated to a £920 drinks tab, courtesy of the EFL sponsor, Sky Bet, the complimentary beverage fund equating to £1 per mile covered. Fortunately, the squad could interrupt their travel with a pause at Derby's training facility. Their chairman from Canada, Eric Perez, who appreciates long-distance travel since he regularly flies seven hours from Toronto to London, understands the challenge facing the club he took over in 2023 aiming to emulate Wrexham's success. All this time on the road has benefits too for Cornwall’s first professional football club, he believes. “I’m not going to say it’s a short journey, It’s a ridiculously long journey in context,” Perez stated. However, it serves to strengthen our squad further – everybody spends time together, we’re used to travelling together.” Loyal Fans Endure Lengthy Travels One of Truro’s stalwart supporters, John Joyce, accepts the reality of extended travel yet stays devoted, notwithstanding occasional flight issues and wearisome train treks. He calculated the recent trip at roughly £400 in expenses and lost earnings, noting, “I worked for Nato in the last six years of my career in the navy, and it was a shorter drive from Brussels back to Cornwall than it is from Cornwall to Gateshead.” As Askey said, following the Carlisle expedition: “The thing that makes Truro special as a club is that the supporters get behind the team no matter what. I know last season we were very successful so it was easy to get behind the players, but from what I know the fans never even moan and they value the players' efforts.”