Meet Scotland's most remote football team - who haven't won an away game for over a year

Scotland's most far-flung football club have gone nearly a year – and 4000 miles – without an away victory.

Wick Academy, in Caithness, last won on the road in April and have endured a dozen gruelling Highland League day trips since then, picking up only two points. The Scorries’ team bus has racked up 3993 miles, further than the distance from Wick to New York.

The miserable run has included an 8-0 pasting at Clachnacuddin and a 4-0 thrashing at Banks o’ Dee. Today, they face another daunting 375-mile round trip to Inverurie Locos in Aberdeenshire in search of that elusive win – but they’re 5-2 rank outsiders with McBookie to break their duck.

Chairman Pat Miller said: “I carry about a defeat with me for a couple of days but sometimes the players sing even more when they’re beat than when they win. You have to have their positive mindset that things are going to get better. I’m sure this away win we all want is just around the corner. We spend £30,000 on buses every season and it’s a mammoth effort to raise the money to pay for them.

“But the players, the coaching team, the committee, the fans – it draws us all together as a club, and that’s priceless.” He added: “We have a very young, inexperienced team just bedding in this year and it’s taking a while to get the results away from home.

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