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Confirmed: Most Ever Consecutive Wins in English Football History - MCFC
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The blue phantom
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Even though City have claimed the wolves match as a win, rightly so too. I wish they'd put a W next to the result instead of a D
https://www.mancity.com/fixtures/first-team?results=true
https://www.mancity.com/fixtures/first-team?results=true
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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I keep hearing this, but doesn’t the draw with Wolves go down as a 0-0 in 90 mins?
After 90mins it was a draw. At 120mins it was a draw. At the end of the pen shootout we battered 'em!
dickie davies
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Ask the bookies. Definitely counts as a draw if level after 90 mins.
Did we lose in 2012 vs QPR?
Exeter Blue I am here
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do we share the capital one cup with Liverpool?
Of course not. They won it far and square, just like they did the league in 2014......!
Toney’s bookie
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If it wasn't for the useless Bobby Madley screwing us over and likely costing us a win against Everton, we'd be on 21 consecutive wins in all competitions as it stands.
Gary James
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There is though. The IFAB say that when a game needs a winner (which that one-off LC game did) then the winner can be determined by extra time and/or a penalty shoot out. The LC accept it as a win; the FA say that they also accept it as a win etc. The issue comes with statistic websites/spreadsheets that don't have capacity to record it as a win. Companies/statisticians that base their records on spreadsheets struggle with this, but those that have maintained records since footy began (such as the Nationwide Football Annual which under various names has been in existence for over 130 years) have confirmed they recognise it.think the confusion around the Wolves game stops this being talked about more. Strange there is no set rule for cup tie results when trying to assess a winning run!
dickie davies
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City ruining spreadsheets since 2008There is though. The IFAB say that when a game needs a winner (which that one-off LC game did) then the winner can be determined by extra time and/or a penalty shoot out. The LC accept it as a win; the FA say that they also accept it as a win etc. The issue comes with statistic websites/spreadsheets that don't have capacity to record it as a win. Companies/statisticians that base their records on spreadsheets struggle with this, but those that have maintained records since footy began (such as the Nationwide Football Annual which under various names has been in existence for over 130 years) have confirmed they recognise it.
Fame Monster
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I presume the opening post is talking about one of the records that I highlighted the other week which is based on this: https://talksport.com/football/most...itions-liverpool-man-united-arsenal-maybe?p=6. Talksport claimed last year that Arsenal had the record for most consecutive wins in all competitions for a top flight English club. They said it was 14 and, if they are correct, that means City did indeed break the record with the victory over Arsenal. I contacted numerous stattos at national organisations to confirm whether Talksport were right about Arsenal's record but no one seems to know if they were. Sky Sports' leading statistician (who incidentally does rightly count the LC win as a win) believes it is now a record but, like me, does not have stats for every top flight club that has ever existed in England. Talksport haven't responded to my request. Personally, I think the Talksport figure is pretty low, but if they claimed it as a record then City have certainly beaten it and I'd have expected Talksport (if no one else) to have made a big deal out of it but they haven't.
On the club record of consecutive wins - I've had it confirmed by leading national statisticians and compilers of football record books that they are counting City's current club record (including the win over Wolves) as a new record and it will appear as such in their statistical books. I explained on another thread about the precedents etc and with their confirmation we should now just accept this and see how great the record becomes. This is a major landmark for the club and with other sequence records about to go, we should celebrate them all and not downplay them. No other club would and both Arsenal & MUFC have celebrated wins on penalties as part of their own record sequences in the past.
Thanks for the confirmation Gary, and sorry I wrongly referred to you (writer and historian) as a statistician in my earlier post haha!!
You're absolutely right we should be celebrating it more, it's an incredible achievement.
Even if you're suspicions are right and it is on the low side and the great Preston Wanderers side of 1609 have the record, we can be pretty certain it's a modern record in the era of 4/5 competitions, beating the previous record which stood for 30 years. No way on earth should we downplay it, an achievement that's well earned, playing beautiful football.