Leicester City are breaking all kinds of records in the Championship. David Prutton says that the club are on course to be the best side in the division’s history.
Leicester City are currently the runaway favourite to win the league and gain automatic promotion back to the Premier League.
The Foxes sit 14 points clear at the top of the tree in the Championship, beating all comers apart from Hull City. This has promoted rival managers to accept that Enzo Maresca and his side will probably lift the trophy in May or sooner.
Tony Mowbray is one who has been thinking along those lines after Leicester beat his Black Cats side.
But where does the side really stack up in terms of all-time great Championship sides? David Prutton has had his say.
Prutton on where Leicester ranks in all-time Championship sides
Speaking to Sky Sports, Prutton explained that the conversations putting Leicester in that position are understandable, but warned that Leicester hasn’t yet been promoted and it could still go wrong.
“The fact that you put the term ‘record-breaking’ then that does mean that we have to take them incredibly seriously, not that we weren’t already.
“At this moment in time, the numbers do favour them for being one of the best, if not the best we’ve seen in the Championship, but they’re not promoted yet.”
How do they stack up?
Leicester currently have 39 points in the league which stands them in first place all-time at this stage.
Second place would be the 2005/06 Reading side who had 31 points after 14 games but finished on 106 points.
Third is the Newcastle side on 2009/10 which had 27 points at this point before finishing on 102.
The other sides in the original top five best Championship sides are Leicester 2013/13 with 32 at this point, Burnley last season had 25 while the 2017/18 Wolves team had 29.