| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by GBM at 11:02, 28th October 2025 |     |
I've been fortunate(?) to see Argyle play away to Carlisle twice...
Once in January 2020...a 3-0 win thank goodness. Required a nights stay before and after the match!
The second was in January 2016 when the match was rescheduled to be played at Blackburn due to flooding at Brunton Park, saving us 200 miles at Carlisle's expense. A 2-0 win too!
Your attendance would be appreciated these days at any matches.
Argyle seem to do better with you being there.........
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by Merthyr Imp at 22:11, 27th October 2025 | |
National League (formerly the Conference) is regarded as "non league" (Level 5), so surely the longest League journey remains Plymouth to Carlisle?
It does say 'league' with a small L rather than 'League' which would usually indicate the Football League (aka EFL).
To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they're just trying to differentiate from a cup game. It might take a bit of research to establish the longest ever FA Cup journey.
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by The Tall Controller at 19:36, 27th October 2025 | |
I may be a bit biased......well OK I am!
National League (formerly the Conference) is regarded as "non league" (Level 5), so surely the longest League journey remains Plymouth to Carlisle?
I have friends who have done that trip, midweek, watched a miserable defeat in the pouring rain and travelled back overnight, soaking wet, on the one coach that made the journey, arriving back at Home Park around breakfast time.
You'd have to be keen!
National League (formerly the Conference) is regarded as "non league" (Level 5), so surely the longest League journey remains Plymouth to Carlisle?
I have friends who have done that trip, midweek, watched a miserable defeat in the pouring rain and travelled back overnight, soaking wet, on the one coach that made the journey, arriving back at Home Park around breakfast time.
You'd have to be keen!
I've been fortunate(?) to see Argyle play away to Carlisle twice...
Once in January 2020...a 3-0 win thank goodness. Required a nights stay before and after the match!
The second was in January 2016 when the match was rescheduled to be played at Blackburn due to flooding at Brunton Park, saving us 200 miles at Carlisle's expense. A 2-0 win too!
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by Oxonhutch at 18:36, 27th October 2025 | |
Further north but still in England - Berwick Rangers. But yet they play in Scotland leagues.
As is the county that bears its name.
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by grahame at 17:41, 27th October 2025 | |
Further north but still in England - Berwick Rangers. But yet they play in Scotland leagues.
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by TaplowGreen at 17:19, 27th October 2025 | |
I may be a bit biased......well OK I am!
National League (formerly the Conference) is regarded as "non league" (Level 5), so surely the longest League journey remains Plymouth to Carlisle?
I have friends who have done that trip, midweek, watched a miserable defeat in the pouring rain and travelled back overnight, soaking wet, on the one coach that made the journey, arriving back at Home Park around breakfast time.
You'd have to be keen!
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:54, 27th October 2025 | |
Not on trains, but the same journey related - from the BBC:
Fan cycles 900 miles to support football team
A football fan cycled more than 900 miles from Cornwall to Tyne and Wear to see his football team play in the National League says he had a "quite incredible" response to his trip.
Chris Willian travelled 914 miles (1,471km) on two manually-powered wheels from the county to see his team Truro City FC face Gateshead on Saturday.
The team drew with a 2-2 result, which 185 fans travelled to watch in what was the longest journey in English league football history.
Mr Willian said his journey "really was the work of a madman" when he was cycling late into the night with the darkness, wind and rain working against him.
He said: "I knew it would be a challenge, I knew it would be touch and go with the weather, and I thought: 'The opportunity's there, why not give it a go?'"
"First and foremost, I just wanted to be at the game, so I made sure I actually had booked the Friday off work so I could get there whatever."
(BBC article continues)
A football fan cycled more than 900 miles from Cornwall to Tyne and Wear to see his football team play in the National League says he had a "quite incredible" response to his trip.
Chris Willian travelled 914 miles (1,471km) on two manually-powered wheels from the county to see his team Truro City FC face Gateshead on Saturday.
The team drew with a 2-2 result, which 185 fans travelled to watch in what was the longest journey in English league football history.
Mr Willian said his journey "really was the work of a madman" when he was cycling late into the night with the darkness, wind and rain working against him.
He said: "I knew it would be a challenge, I knew it would be touch and go with the weather, and I thought: 'The opportunity's there, why not give it a go?'"
"First and foremost, I just wanted to be at the game, so I made sure I actually had booked the Friday off work so I could get there whatever."
(BBC article continues)
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by grahame at 18:33, 26th October 2025 | |
Truro seem to play in Newquay, and Gateshead in Whitley Bay according to the map. Bit of northern bias?
| Re: The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by JayMac at 17:33, 26th October 2025 | |
The S*n had the story too. Although they didn't know where Truro is.
| The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead Posted by grahame at 14:26, 26th October 2025 | |
From The BBC
When Truro City kicked off at Gateshead in the National League on Saturday, they did so backed by 185 fans who had taken the longest journey in English league football history.
Promoted from the regional divisions to national level for the first time this summer, never before has a team travelled as far as Truro had on the hunt for three points.
Promoted from the regional divisions to national level for the first time this summer, never before has a team travelled as far as Truro had on the hunt for three points.
