by The Cube »
31 Mar 2012 19:04
Franchise FC Ian Royal Obviously holding such records as most wins from the start of the season and most consecutive games without conceeding (in any competition still iirc) is also pretty anonymous.
Sadly the second one is not the case.
We conceded at Oxford in the League Cup before conceding in the League (we did score 5 though) and as for League games some mugs from Manchester have got that one.
Although there is no absolute certainty because the record isn't really kept, I think you will find that we do still have a legitimate claim for the record for longest period without conceding in all competitions at 1080 minutes - consisting of 11 clean sheets, most of a game at Rochdale before run of clean sheets, and then the first 6 minutes in the Oxford game you mention. Certainly Manchester United did not beat that at the time they were setting the record in League games. And neither did any of the other teams who have come close. We also can claim the joint record for consecutive clean sheets in all competitions - 11, shared with Millwall from long ago. In both cases, all 11 were League games.
Essentially I challenge anyone to come up with a counterexample.