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The greatest moment in Cornwall’s history of football was Truro City’s promotion to the National League.

This county on the South West peninsula is known for its rugby union hotspots, but it’s more associated with vacations, cream teas, and pasties than high-flying football.

After claiming the title on goal difference from Torquay United with a dramatic 5-2 victory over St Albans City, the Tinners will become the first team from the county to play in the fifth tier of English football when they come next season.

Their victory comes a year after they were still playing “home” games at Gloucester City, which is a 390-mile round-trip, and it is the club’s highest of the year for a team that has also had its fair share of lows.

Truro’s long-serving captain Connor Riley-Lowe, remarked, “I can’t believe what we’ve accomplished.”

“Over the past few years, the club has gone through some really difficult times, most recently when they played three times a week in Gloucester.

People don’t realize how much effort we put in to get things right, “we’ve got jobs, we’ve got kids,” they say.

Perhaps Truro won the FA Vase in 2007 to win the league title, which is most comparable to Saturday’s triumph.

Stewart Yetton, the club’s current assistant manager, won at Wembley 18 years ago, but he now claims it is much more impressive. He is the club’s all-time best goalscorer.

He claimed that Whaley was “unbelievable” and that the memories we created that day were “awesome.”

We have won a league that we had no right to win, which is very different from winning it.

We had bigger budgets and should have done it when we entered the leagues for a few years. We recently won a competition where our budget is likely to be bottom-six and bottom-seven.

Few clubs can vouch for Truro City’s 20-year rollercoaster history.

They won five promotions in six years under the leadership of former owner Kevin Heaney, and they won the FA Vase at the newly rebuilt Wembley Stadium in 2007 with a 3-1 win over AFC Totton.

They climbed the ranks until they reached what is now the National League South in 2011 under the leadership of Heaney.

However, Truro went into administration in August 2012 as property developer Heaney’s business suffered in the time’s severe global economic crisis.

Before local businessmen Peter Masters and Philip Perryman intervened in their place to save the club in October of that year, they were hours away from being expelled from the league.

Work on Treyew Road started in October 2020 after a few planning delays, leaving the club homeless. They groundshared with Plymouth Parkway, Torquay, and even briefly with Gloucester City.

After having trouble with the Stadium for Cornwall’s funding, Truro decided to build their own ground, which opened last August and was purchased by Canadian investors.

However, Truro have flourished since moving back to Cornwall, where they have had over 3, 000 sell-outs for their final two matches of the season and the third-highest attendance in the league.

Owner Eric Perez told BBC Sport, “I’ve had the feeling all year that we could do something like this, and to actually do it is the culmination of a lot of hard work from a lot of people,” the owner said.

“We’ve done everything we can to expand and improve this club, reach its full potential, and reach Cornwall’s sporting potential,” we’ve said.

It will be even longer for Truro fans and those of their opponents next season.

The 920-mile round trip from Gateshead to Truro would be the longest away trip in English football, comfortably defeating Argyle’s 815-or-less miles this season if they failed to make it to the National League play-offs.

Truro’s “local” derby will be a 280-mile round-trip to Yeovil Town in the coming season, but many of the absence days will be more than double that.

Although none of the journeys are as lengthy as Whitley Bay’s round-trip to Truro in the FA Vase in 2008, which spanned more than 940 miles, are possible, Hartlepool United, York City, Boston United, and Carlisle United.

I’ll probably need to renew my passport and apply for a visa, joked John Askey, the manager.

It would probably be the longest trips ever made in English football.

It’s a nice issue to have, but I don’t know how to navigate it. However, we’ll have to figure it out.

What was regarded as one of the most unexpected non-league managerial appointments of the summer is more than justified, in the opinion of Askey.

The fifth and sixth tiers have enjoyed great success under the former manager of Port Vale and Shrewsbury Town. He helped York City advance from National League North to the 2018 title and Macclesfield Town to the 2018 title.

But he had never managed a club with a southerly base like Shrewsbury and never had any experience leading a team in the National League South, let alone one that had just moved to a new stadium, and had no idea how many people would show up to watch them.

What is the key to his success, then?

He said, “I think having trustworthy players is important.”

Truro has probably the most honest team of players I’ve ever had, in terms of travel and training facilities. They are incredible.

To have accomplished what they’ve accomplished is probably why it gives me just as much pleasure as any promotion I’ve ever received.

In his World Championship last-16 match with fellow former world champion Shaun Murphy, world number one Judd Trump took a 5-3 lead, but he hardly missed a chance to earn a £100,000 bonus.

Trump, 35, rallied from 2-0 and 3-2 down to win the final three frames of the session before missing a pot on the yellow that would have allowed him to take a century break when he was 98 in frame eight.

He has 98 centuries this season, and he is the only player to have reached 100 tons this year, which would award him a prize of £100,000.

As the match resumes at 19:00 BST, before the final session begins on Monday at 13:00 BST, in the best-of-25 match, Trump will have eight more frames to play.

Only two campaigners, Neil Robertson and Donald Trump, have recorded 100-year breaks; 103 in 2013 and 103 in 2018 and 102 in 2019.

Most century breaks occur in a single season.

With a 13-10 victory over Lei Peifan, China’s Zhao Xintong made it to the quarter-finals for the first time in his career.

In the second session, Zhao, 27, potted nine reds and nine blacks before his break ended with a score of 72. He was on course for a maximum 147 in the opening frame of the day.

Lei, who had previously defeated 2024 world champion Kyren Wilson in round one, threatened a comeback in frame 20 before he was 41-12 ahead in frame 20.

However, Zhao claimed the victory with a 54-minute break, which would have already eliminated former world champion Mark Allen and 2010 world champion Neil Robertson, who has already qualified for a quarter-final against England’s Chris Wakelin.

He declared, “I’m so happy that this is my first quarter-finale, and I’m so proud of myself.” He [Lei] faced Kyren Wilson in the first round, so I knew I wasn’t going to win and needed to be strong.

“I just want to go through the Crucible because it’s very nice, the crowd is nice, and I want to stay longer.” I need to try my best and enjoy it. I’m very confident in playing Chris Wakelin because this is my first time.

Zhao, a former UK Championship champion, was one of 10 Chinese players who received bans for their involvement in match-fixing in June 2023.

He was the only player to return after serving a 20-month ban and accepting accusations of being a party to another player who had fixed two matches and had himself bet on matches. He had not immediately thrown a match.

Women’s Six Nations

Italy (10) 44

Cons: Silari 4 Pens: Silari 2 – Stefan, Granzotto 2, Turani, Minuzzi, Muzzo

Wales (12) 12

Italy won the Wooden Spoon for the second consecutive year and the record-loss to the Azzurre to wrap up their Six Nations campaign in style.

After Sofia Stefan’s effort was saved by Kate Williams and Gwenllian Pyrs, Wales had a half-time lead in Parma.

However, the Italians escaped in a second-half blitz, with Michela Sillari scoring 14 points from the boot while Francesca Granzotto, Silvia Turani, Vittoria Minuzzi, and Aura Muzzo all scoring from the spot.

Italy finished fourth in the table for the first time in two years, while Wales came in fourth, finishing at rock bottom, losing all five games for the first time in their history.

Sean Lynn, the head coach of Wales, had mentioned how crucial it was to give the game an 80-minute run before the game, which had been postponed a day due to Pope Francis’ funeral.

Wales did enjoy the majority of their initial possession and territory, but as they progressed through the phases, they struggled to establish collision dominance.

The Welsh maul, which had failed to convert to a weapon after failing to do so against Ireland, returned to being a weapon, driving Williams over for her third try of the campaign, thanks to Italian indiscipline.

With a cross-field kick that beat Alyssa D’Inca on her wing, Italy responded in style by fly-half Veronica Madia showing her creative side.

When Sara Seye and Elisa Giordano burst through some poor tackling with some loose kicking from Lleucu George, returning scrum-half Stefan finished under the posts, the hosts were not to be denied.

In order to give Italy the lead, Sillari added the conversion and a subsequent penalty in the event of a tie.

A fumble under the high ball from Minuzzi provided a good attacking platform for Wales, but basic errors prevented the visitors from capitalizing.

But just before half-time, they had another chance. Once more, the attack was launched from line-out ball, and the forwards showed good patience as they continued to control until Pyrs pounced from a close range.

Wales went into the tunnel ahead for the first time this campaign by adding the conversion, which was completed by Bevan, who added the conversion to give them a 12-to-10 half-time lead.

However, the optimism was sluggish as Italy made the bold move to kick-off against George.

Without a last-gasp tap tackle from Jasmine Joyce-Butchers, it almost paid off with a chip setting up Giordana Duca, who would have been through.

As Wales struggled to live up to their offloading game, Italy kept coming in attack wave after wave, and Silari took advantage of the moment to put Italy back in front.

Alex Callender, Hannah Bluck, and Carys Phillips all joined the field, and Lynn made some early changes.

However, they were unable to make an impact because Italy kept putting on pressure and was successful in getting the ball to Granzotto, who did well to ride the defensive tackle and corner the ball.

Wales desperately needed a foothold, but they could not tolerate the dazzling Azzurre attack.

Italy chose to go for the jugular and use a tap penalty in front of posts, and while the defense succeeded in igniting Sara Tounesi’s charge, they were unable to stop Turani from stretching over the line.

The full-back Minuzzi, who scored the winning 50-22, sent Italy upfield, for the fourth try. The defense was then cut through by Minuzzi’s fine line as the forwards carried on.

We are aware that we can be better, but we must also learn quickly and improve.

“We can’t ever be in this position.”

Replacements: Francesca Granzotto, Emanuela Stecca, Gaia Maris, Isabella Locatelli, Alissa Ranuccini, Alia Bitonci, Beatrice Rigoni, and Desiree Spinelli.

Wales’s Jasmine Joyce-Butchers, Lisa Neumann, Hannah Jones (capt), Courtney Keight, Carys Cox, Lleucu George, Keira Bevan, Kelsey Jones, Donna Rose, Abbie Fleming, Gwen Crabb, Kate Williams, Bethan Lewis, and Georgia Evans.

Carys Phillips, Maisie Davies, Jenni Scoble, Natalia John, Alex Callender, Sian Jones, Hannah Bluck, and Catherine Richards are the replacements.