Celtic broke their own 100-year-old British record on Saturday but they still have some way to go if they are to match Steaua Bucharest’s European recordBy Richard Foster for The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Guardian Sport NetworkWhen Celtic cruised past St Johnstone on Saturday they succeeded in breaking their own British domestic record of 62 unbeaten games, which had stood for a century. It was a fitting venue to break that 100-year-old record as their last defeat to Scottish opposition had come at McDiarmid Park on 11 May 2016. Brendan Rodgers’ side have been rightly lauded for an outstanding achievement – amid the customary carping about the weakness of Scottish football – but Celtic still have a way to go if they want to emulate the feats of the Steaua Bucharest, whose unbeaten run stands at a scarcely credible 119 games, composed of 104 league and 15 cup matches.Steaua Bucharest did not suffer a single defeat in domestic football and between 1985 and 1989 they racked up five successive league titles and four Romanian cups. Their unblemished league record for the three full seasons from 1986-87 to 1988-89 stands at 102 matches played with 86 wins and 16 draws. Over this period they scored 322 goals at an average of just over three per match and conceded only 63. Although their 1986 European Cup win was undoubtedly the pinnacle, their 1988-89 league campaign was the most impressive of all three. In winning 31 of their 34 games, they secured a 91% win ratio and an impressive tally of 121 goals for and only 28 against. Related: Celtic make history as St Johnstone rout takes unbeaten record to 63 Related: How Gheorghe Hagi went from Real Madrid to Barcelona . via Serie B Continue readingreadfullarticle
