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The Fiver has never quite understood this 10-in-a-row thing the Queen’s Celtic have been banging on about. Yes, it would be one more than them, we get that bit. But context is everything, and in terms of actual significant achievement, a modern-day 10-streak could never hold a candle to the nine-in-a-row of Jock Stein’s beloved side, a sequence completed during an era when that lot could go the first 33 games of a 34-match season unbeaten and still not wrest the title from Parkhead, and when the likes of Clyde, Partick Thistle and Morton could give you a game. Come to think of it, all factors considered, it wouldn’t be as impressive as Dundee United’s one-in-a-row either. Or Kilmarnock’s. So what’s it really worth? That’s right, yes, we agree, next to nothing.

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