Truro City: after years on the road history beckons for Cornwall?s former nomads

The Tinners are back on home soil and four games away from a remarkable promotion to the fifth tier
This time last year Truro City were simply trying to limp through the season, in the middle of a ludicrous grind of 10 National League South games across 20 days. This exact week 12 months ago brought four matches, a period that could have been a Craig David 7 Days remix: Torquay United on Monday, Eastbourne Borough on Wednesday, Yeovil Town on Thursday and Maidstone United on Saturday. Sunday offered a little respite before the final stretch, three matches across four days. Just completing the campaign was an achievement.
But arguably that was not even the biggest challenge. Truro spent the final two months playing home games at Gloucester City, a 390-mile round trip and the final bizarre but memorable chapter in a nomadic existence that spanned four years. Until that point they had been groundsharing with Taunton Town, 120 miles away, and before that across the Devon border at Plymouth Parkway, 55 miles away, but a cocktail of inclement weather and pitch problems left them searching for another home. The league pushed them towards Gloucester?s synthetic surface to fulfil their fixtures. ?I think we would have played on a local patch of grass on a roundabout if they would have allowed us,? says Gareth Davies, the club?s head of media and communications and a local BBC commentator.
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