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Sunderland’s shared 125-year-old top flight record for the longest winning streak in a single season could fall tonight when Chelsea face Spurs at White Hart Lane.

Antonio Conte’s tabletopping Chelsea side beat Stoke City 4-2 on New Year’s Eve to draw level with Sunderland, Preston North End, and Arsenal on 13 consecutive wins, and can set a new benchmark if they win in North London.

Sunderland won 13 consecutive Division One games in the 1891-92 season, in a run that stretched from November to April and encompassed victories against Burnley, Notts County, Darwen, Everton, Wolves, Bolton, Accrington, Preston North End, and Aston Villa, as well as league doubles over Derby County and Stoke City.

It meant that they equalled Preston’s winning streak set that same season, which came to an end on Wearside in March as Sunderland’s own run continued.

Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal won 13 Premier League games in a row at the end of the 2001-02 season to equal the single-season record, and then won the first game of the following season which means they hold the overall record of 14 successive top flight wins.

Spurs also won 13 First Division games in a row, but their run spanned the back end of the 1959-60 season and the beginning of the 1960-61 campaign.