Record Watch 2024/25

[Hendo]

Losing this record does feel a little like the football world 'righting' an anomaly, a glitch in the matrix. I may be wrong, but for some time didn't Reading hold the record for most points in a season, best start to a season and longest, in minutes, without conceding a goal?

Yeah, van der Sar got the clean sheet record on 18th Feb 2009 so we held all 3 records for 1,026 days.

[Snowflake Royal]

Losing this record does feel a little like the football world 'righting' an anomaly, a glitch in the matrix. I may be wrong, but for some time didn't Reading hold the record for most points in a season, best start to a season and longest, in minutes, without conceding a goal?

Yep. Not long on all three I don’t think.

[Snowflake Royal]

Brum's record is just never getting beaten is it.

[Sanguine]

I wonder what the European record is for most wins to start a season. It's really hard to find overall domestic records in other countries. Certainly I believe our 13 beats any such achievement in the big five top divisions. Monaco have the Ligue 1 record, on 12. Bayern 10 in Germany, likewise Roma in Italy.

[tidus_mi2]

Brum's record is just never getting beaten is it.

Hard to see, unless they change how points work or increase the amount of teams in leagues, 106 was already a massive barrier, 111 just feels ridiculous.

[The Royal Forester]

Brum's record is just never getting beaten is it.

Isn't that what a lot of us (and some players, of that era, I'm looking at you Glen for one) thought about 106?

[Silver Fox]

Brum's record is just never getting beaten is it.

We'll have to see how our squad looks after the summer

[Snowflake Royal]

Brum's record is just never getting beaten is it.

Isn't that what a lot of us (and some players, of that era, I'm looking at you Glen for one) thought about 106?

Well the previous record was 105, so it wasn’t a particularly big jump. This is an additional 5.

[traff]

Interesting that whoscored.com had no Birmingham players in their team of the season

[Orion1871]

Brum's record is just never getting beaten is it.

May only last a season with Luton coming down along with their parachute payments.

[East Grinstead Royal]

Good point. What a farce. And to think the EFL were worried about Reading undermining the integrity of the league.

[Brum Royal]

Not sure Luton are going to be quite the same sort of force as Brum - they're not going to blow 15m+ on a striker, and they're supposedly putting some/most of the Prem money into the new stadium fund. Plus they don't have the same pulling power as Brum either.

[Winchester Royal]

Birmingham's 111 points saw them drop just 27 points all season, with 34 wins, 9 draws, and 3 defeats. (72% win rate, 2.41ppg). We did the 106 with 31 wins, 13 draws, and 2 defeats. (67% win rate, 2.3ppg)

In contrast, the Premier league record held by Man City is 100 points from 38 games, with an 84% win rate and 2.63ppg. The same ratio in a 46 game season would have secured 119 points.

I can see a perfect storm where a team nosedives from the Premier League to League One and then uses the parachute payment money to beat Birmingham City's record, or a team that yoyos between the Premier League and Championship spending big one year and wiping the league away.

Don't forget how close other teams have come to it in the Championship in the last few years - Burnley and Leicester looked likely to beat it but started to falter after they secured promotion or in Leicester's case, were so far ahead they seemed to lose focus.

[Jackson Corner]

Out of Birminghams 34 wins 21 were by one goal. Against the mighty Cambridge, Shrewsbury, Crawley and Lincoln ect.
Our 106 season eight were by one goal. In a league that contained Wolves, Leeds, Leicester and Southampton.

[tidus_mi2]

Birmingham's 111 points saw them drop just 27 points all season, with 34 wins, 9 draws, and 3 defeats. (72% win rate, 2.41ppg). We did the 106 with 31 wins, 13 draws, and 2 defeats. (67% win rate, 2.3ppg)

In contrast, the Premier league record held by Man City is 100 points from 38 games, with an 84% win rate and 2.63ppg. The same ratio in a 46 game season would have secured 119 points.

I can see a perfect storm where a team nosedives from the Premier League to League One and then uses the parachute payment money to beat Birmingham City's record, or a team that yoyos between the Premier League and Championship spending big one year and wiping the league away.

Don't forget how close other teams have come to it in the Championship in the last few years - Burnley and Leicester looked likely to beat it but started to falter after they secured promotion or in Leicester's case, were so far ahead they seemed to lose focus.

So...Luton?

[Stranded]

Birmingham's 111 points saw them drop just 27 points all season, with 34 wins, 9 draws, and 3 defeats. (72% win rate, 2.41ppg). We did the 106 with 31 wins, 13 draws, and 2 defeats. (67% win rate, 2.3ppg)

In contrast, the Premier league record held by Man City is 100 points from 38 games, with an 84% win rate and 2.63ppg. The same ratio in a 46 game season would have secured 119 points.

I can see a perfect storm where a team nosedives from the Premier League to League One and then uses the parachute payment money to beat Birmingham City's record, or a team that yoyos between the Premier League and Championship spending big one year and wiping the league away.

Don't forget how close other teams have come to it in the Championship in the last few years - Burnley and Leicester looked likely to beat it but started to falter after they secured promotion or in Leicester's case, were so far ahead they seemed to lose focus.

So...Luton?

If they are desperate enough they have the cash to splash but aren't they building a new stadium? I think that has swallowed a lot of their cash.

You can easily see a "big club" unexpectedly dropping one year - in a normal season Spurs or Utd would be heading into the last couple of games not certain of their status and with their eyes on another prize. Say Spurs were to drop in a couple of years, with their finances they could end playing in the Champ with a stronger team than they have now.

As the PL gets tighter, someone unexpected will drop and then even 111pts could be beatable.

[Sutekh]

Birmingham's 111 points saw them drop just 27 points all season, with 34 wins, 9 draws, and 3 defeats. (72% win rate, 2.41ppg). We did the 106 with 31 wins, 13 draws, and 2 defeats. (67% win rate, 2.3ppg)

In contrast, the Premier league record held by Man City is 100 points from 38 games, with an 84% win rate and 2.63ppg. The same ratio in a 46 game season would have secured 119 points.

I can see a perfect storm where a team nosedives from the Premier League to League One and then uses the parachute payment money to beat Birmingham City's record, or a team that yoyos between the Premier League and Championship spending big one year and wiping the league away.

Don't forget how close other teams have come to it in the Championship in the last few years - Burnley and Leicester looked likely to beat it but started to falter after they secured promotion or in Leicester's case, were so far ahead they seemed to lose focus.

So...Luton?

If they are desperate enough they have the cash to splash but aren't they building a new stadium? I think that has swallowed a lot of their cash.

You can easily see a "big club" unexpectedly dropping one year - in a normal season Spurs or Utd would be heading into the last couple of games not certain of their status and with their eyes on another prize. Say Spurs were to drop in a couple of years, with their finances they could end playing in the Champ with a stronger team than they have now.

As the PL gets tighter, someone unexpected will drop and then even 111pts could be beatable.

Last I heard is Luton won’t be in their new shiny plastic box until the start of 2027-28 so we’re all going to have to endure at least one more visit to Kenilworth, if not two visits.

[tidus_mi2]

So...Luton?

If they are desperate enough they have the cash to splash but aren't they building a new stadium? I think that has swallowed a lot of their cash.

You can easily see a "big club" unexpectedly dropping one year - in a normal season Spurs or Utd would be heading into the last couple of games not certain of their status and with their eyes on another prize. Say Spurs were to drop in a couple of years, with their finances they could end playing in the Champ with a stronger team than they have now.

As the PL gets tighter, someone unexpected will drop and then even 111pts could be beatable.

Last I heard is Luton won’t be in their new shiny plastic box until the start of 2027-28 so we’re all going to have to endure at least one more visit to Kenilworth, if not two visits.

Never been, so I'll probably do it next season. I do regret not going to Bristol Rovers as that's another one I haven't been to.

[Mr Angry]

Kenilworth Road was an utter toilet the last time I went there (I think that was the game that Hahneman deliberately tripped up the Luton mascot who was giving it large to the Reading fans during the warm up....)

[Mr Angry]

We do have a NEW record to be proud of........................

The longest time to complete a sale of a football club in the history of the EFL!