This is Leicestershire -- Nigel Pearson and his Leicester City players may have played it down, but breaking the club record for consecutive league victories last night is no small achievement. It is difficult enough to win eight consecutive games in any league, but to do it in the Championship, a notoriously competitive league, is a fantastic feat. It is even more impressive when you look at who City have beaten during this run. The run started with arguably their toughest test of the campaign, away at QPR. To become the first side to win at Loftus Road this season was the catalyst to the winning streak. That win must have given them fantastic belief, and they have certainly played some confident football since. Reading, a big win over Bolton Wanderers, Millwall away, in-form Derby at home, Leeds away and another form side, Middlesbrough, were all dispatched before the record finally fell at Birmingham City last night. It was also the first time City had won at St Andrew's in a decade. More than 2,500 City fans packed into the Railway End to watch Pearson's men produce a confident display to which the scoreline did not do justice. At 2-1, it may have looked as if the Blues were in the game. They weren't. The scoreline flattered the hosts. The way City are going, eight could become nine at Bournemouth this weekend, then City have three out of four games at home, with a trip to Nottingham Forest sandwiched in between the visits of Watford, Ipswich and Watford. Former City striker Alan Young has made the bold statement on radio that he can't see City losing again this season. I wouldn't go that far as it would be a huge achievement to keep this form going for the final 18 games. But with an eight-point gap at the top to QPR and an 11-point cushion to Burnley in third, City have put themselves in a fantastic position and failure to book an automatic promotion spot now would be a massive disappointment, worse than the play-off heartache at Watford at the end of last season. Of course, all City fans remember how the season faded in February and March last season but I don't see any signs of that happening again. City just look so much stronger than last season. The only danger now is that Pearson is an absolute certainty to win the manager of the month award for January. Let's hope that isn't a curse.
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