Gateshead vs truro: Fans travel 914 miles for furthest match in English football history

Pre-match there were plenty of headaches, with many opting to treat themselves to a free pint offered at the Fog of the Tyne Pub to the first 100 Truro fans to turn up.

Gateshead have the lowest average attendance in the National League, but play in an 11,800-capacity stadium designed to also host sporting events and gigs.

The home stands are almost completely empty, the temperature is dropping, and teeth are chattering on the far terrace as Truro Sick.

The distant attendance is 185, higher than usual, which is part of those who are seduced by the novelty of travel and some neutral groundhoppers who want to be part of history.

TRURO is otherworldly electric when the game starts. They deservedly took the lead after five minutes through Dominic Johnson-Fisher. After two more goals were denied, they doubled their lead before half-time through defender Christian Oxlade, whose father Mark and brother Alex played for England in their careers.

Half an hour away is Bedllam.

But after progressing through the gap and twice to equalize, the second goal in the 70th minute by Strisher Leage for West Ham at the start of his senior career.

Truro had a golden chance to win it in stoppage time, one-on-one with the keeper on the stroke, but Lucas Jefcott finished his finish.

“I got a point before the start, I thought,” said Sharon Hinds, a decade-long fan who also played on the Club’s team.

“I’ll miss coming to the matches. We were small for a long time but feel like giants now. We’re a real tough family.”