• National League club?s 12-hour bus journey ends in 2-2 draw
  • First 90 fans to arrive at Gateshead shared a free ?920 bar tab

For the players, staff and travelling supporters of Truro City, the gruelling 914-mile round 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.
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.
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