Complex sentence: Following their FA Cup heroics, in the 1956/57 season Torquay just missed out on promotion to Division Two on goal difference, the season had begun well and by April the possibility of a first promotion to Division Two was the talk of the town.
Split into simpler sentences: Following their FA Cup heroics, in the 1956/57 season Torquay just missed out on promotion to Division Two on goal difference. The season had begun well-and by April, the possibility of a first promotion to Division Two was the talk of the town.