However, one of the unique features of English football’s fifth tier is the sheer amount of travel involved.

With teams in Cornwall, Cumbria, Essex and Tyneside, it is impossible to avoid long hours on the team bus heading to away fixtures.

Across the division, each team will make an average of eight road-trips this season of over 400 miles.

Not surprisingly, Truro will make the most with all bar two of their opponents requiring a round trip of at least 400 miles, and the longest of all being the journey they made up to Gateshead last month.

At the other end of the scale, Tamworth, in Staffordshire, can count themselves lucky, having just that one trip to Cornwall as their only monster journey this season.

There is not the finance for flights or rail travel for these away days, so players and managers cross their fingers hoping to avoid a Friday of lengthy delays stuck on England’s motorway network.

“The wake-up call I had was when we played at home on the Saturday and then on the Sunday morning we were driving down to Southend to play on Bank Holiday Monday,” said Grayson.

“One Friday, we went to Aldershot from Hartlepool and it took us over 11 hours because of accidents on the motorway. I got to India quicker when I used to travel there!

“The long travel can be detrimental but you don’t use it as an excuse. So many times in all the leagues, you travel the right way and then go and get beaten whereas sometimes you have the most brutal journey and poor preparation and end up having one of the best games of the season.

“Of course, you’d like to do it like the Premier League clubs and fly or get the train but these lads get on with it.

“It gives you a special bond and camaraderie with the players as you’re sat on the bus for so long, you’ll have more time to get to know people in a different way by playing cards, talking, gaming, whatever.”