Wotton's White Tigers are acclimatising to life at a THIRD different home ground this season, this time 200 miles away from the club's spiritual home in the deepest south west.
One of the wettest winters on record has left the nomadic Cornish club with no fewer than five games in hand on many of their league rivals and clinging onto their National League South status by a thread ahead of a hectic final leg which sees them play 15 games in the space of just six weeks.
The first of those games saw them take on Chelmsford City at Gloucester City's Meadow Park last night with a 7.30pm kick-off, meaning players, staff and supporters (of both sides) didn't arrive home until around 2.30am.
Truro have been forced to play their last two 'home' matches at Gloucester after a temporary groundshare with Taunton Town was put on hold due to the waterlogged state of Taunton's Wordsworth Drive pitch.
Wotton has won two league titles as a player with Plymouth Argyle and has a promotion on his CV as manager of the White Tigers, but he admits keeping his side up this season amid the mayhem would go down as his proudest achievement.
"It's a very, very difficult situation to manage at the moment, impossible at times even," the 46-year-old told The NLP.
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