Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
I was just looking back at that run of form and it was a big factor in us winning automatic promotion.

Just before Christmas we were a whopping 18 points ahead of Fulham. They won 16 and drew 4 of their next 20 games, only losing at the last hurdle at Birmingham. I don't have other teams' stats to hand, but I can't imagine there have been too many runs like that in the history of the second tier. Reading managed 52 points out of 60 in their Championship winning season in 2005/06 as part of a run of 25 wins in 33 unbeaten games.
That Reading side was up there with Clough's Forest team as the best I'd ever seen in the second tier, and I have been going down the City since 1964. The season they got promoted to the PL they hammered us 10-3 on aggregate. They really were something special.