Chelsea Record a 12-match Consecutive Win on the Boxing Day after beating its Rival
Chelsea may be grabbing all the headlines with
its impressive 12-match winning streak in the English Premier League, but
that's nothing compared to a team across the border in Wales.(CNN)
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Welsh football team equals Ajax world record 03:36
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Welsh side has won 26 consecutive matches
Ajax set record in 1971-72 season
The New Saints can break it on Dec 30
The New Saints FC notched a 26th consecutive win in
the Welsh Premier League on Monday to equal the world record by set Dutch giant
Ajax during 1971-72 Eredivisie season.
The four-time European champion tweeted its
congratulations to the Welsh side, which cruised to a 4-0 victory over Cefn
Druids in front of a home crowd.
@tnsfc great achievement guys! Happy Boxing Day! 👊
— AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax) December 26, 2016
"It's been a bit of a shock that we've got to
this stage," club chairman Mike Harris told CNN's World Sport show
Tuesday.
"We'd recognized that we'd got to the longest
run of games in our league a few weeks ago when we passed the Bangor City
total, but we still thought we had a bit of a way to go."
Harris and the club were only made aware of the feat
when the Guinness Book of Records got in touch before the crucial match on
Boxing Day.
READ: EPL Boxing Day roundup
"That got everyone a little bit on edge, but
obviously the game went in our favor so we managed to get over that last
hurdle," Harris said.
"I think the players are a great set of players
and you've also got to give great testimony to our manager Craig Harrison, who
is very professional in the way that he treats every single game, every
training session and in his selection of players he's put together over the
last few years."
Harrison's team has emulated an Ajax side that,
featuring the great Johan Cruyff, went on to complete the treble in 1972 by
winning the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and the European Cup -- the precursor to
today's Champions League.
TNS, by comparison, has never made it past the
qualifying rounds of the continent's top club competition in 10 attempts.
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Now 21 points clear at the top of the 12-team Welsh
Premier League, the team can break the world record when it plays second-bottom
Cefn Druids again on Friday.
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"There's a lot of hard work going on in the
Welsh Premier League," said Harris, whose team has won the title for the
past five seasons.
"It's a very young league compared to the more
established leagues in Europe, but the clubs have worked really, really hard
over the last 20 years to keep pushing forward.
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