WHAT a fantastic achievement for us to now hold outright the Football League’s longest unbeaten run.

Saturday’s win over Notts County at the Galpharm made it 43 regular league matches without loss, beating the old mark of 42 which we jointly held with Nottingham Forest for a couple of weeks.

Everyone has been talking about our run and it really is terrific to have kept it going so long.

All the players and management staff deserve massive credit for setting such an incredible mark, and long may it continue.

We have created some history, though, and that shouldn’t be forgotten.

I saw some comments from Gary Birtles, who was part of the Nottingham Forest side which held the 42-game record for so long, and he made it clear what he thought of a team going so long without defeat.

He said that when their record was beaten by Arsenal – who hold the all-time record in English football of 49 in the Premier League – he didn’t feel Forest got enough recognition for what they had done.

And he also said that he didn’t concur with those who might denigrate us because we are playing in League I and not at the top level.

He reckoned that if it wasn’t a significant achievement to have a run of such longevity, why haven’t more teams done it?

That’s a very good point, and it’s also worth noting that in Forest’s run they had 21 wins and 21 draws.

While we want to get more wins, obviously, we had 18 draws and 24 wins before Saturday’s result, another encouraging factor as we look towards the ultimate goal of winning promotion.

IT was great to welcome Andy Morrison back to the club this weekend.

Because Jock arrived here after I left for Sheffield Wednesday, I never got the chance to play alongside him, which would have been great.

He was one of those players you would much rather have on your side than against you, that’s for sure!

Andy was a tough player, a fierce competitor and also a very good footballer.

He was probably the only player in the country, too, who had worse knees than me!

Andy struggled throughout his career with knee problems, just like I did, but he could certainly play a bit.

I played against him on a couple of occasions and one which really sticks in my mind is when we faced his Blackpool side in the FA Cup at Leeds Road in the early 1990s.

I was only a young lad at the time and I knew I was going to be up against Andy and a player called Gary Briggs.