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a sixth tier club who will play in the national league north this season despite being fewer than 30 miles from london. the club play their home games at woodside park not far from stansted airport but because of the geographical split in the division, and there already being 22 clubs far enough south to fill that league, bishop s stortford have a lot of travelling north to do. it works both ways of course. chester fans will have a 400 mile round trip for the opening game tomorrow. it s every other week for stortford though. their away game at darlington in december for instance is 220 miles each way. and that s not the furthest. it s 500 miles to blyth spartans and back in october. so, not surprisingly the club will have to spend a lot of money on coach travel aand hotels, and might find it hard to recruit players too. some of those already on the books, most of whom have dayjobs, might even need to take annual leave to travel to games. but for now their manager agrees they might ha