“Has any club in a major league ever gone top of the table after the opening round of games and stayed there all season?” asks Joel Mahoney.
“No team has been been top after every round of matches, in the English top flight,” writes Chris Roe. “It has happened only once in the Football League: Tottenham Hotspur in Division Two in 1919-20.” Spurs won their first seven games, including a 5-0 victory at Coventry on the opening day, and eventually finished six points ahead of Huddersfield.
