History was made last Friday. I think.

When it comes to club histories and the recognition of milestones in football, some are more tricky to work out than others. I think we equalled the record for Wrexham’s longest ever unbeaten run on Friday, but you might disagree.

First, some context. A club with a history as long as ours will have plenty of gaps in its story. There are games in our deep and distant past which were not recorded accurately or comprehensively at the time, and so there’s really nothing we can do about that.

It also doesn’t help that, during the Second World War, Wrexham’s secretary, manager and all-round one-man institution Tom Williams took a lot of club records home for safe-keeping, and his house burned down!

So the records are patchy, and therefore the temptation is to ignore the early years and focus on the statistics which we know to be accurate. The problem with that approach is that you can’t have your cake and eat it.

We can’t claim to be the third-oldest club in the world but at the same time deny a big chunk of our history! We made a great deal of our 150^th anniversary, and if things continue as they are now we’ll have a heck of a 175^th birthday shindig! We can’t do that and simultaneously ignore the first 75 of those years!

Also, let’s be frank: our longevity is one of the factors which attracted our owners. We can hardly claim our early history never happened, or they’d be gutted!

Fortunately, there is a handy codicil we can put in place when discussing club records. 1921 was when we joined the Football League, and left regional football. That meant we were in a system determined by merit for the first time, facing opponents who were roughly our equals. Therefore, it’s reasonable to suggest that records set since that date have more validity.

After all, we’ve spent seasons playing in leagues against our local neighbours, which is nowhere near as taxing as facing the likes of, say, Bradford City or Carlisle United. Records achieved in the early days might well have been less remarkable achievements if they were attained at the expense of inferior opposition.

However, they are our club records. Wrexham’s players achieved them, and they should not be erased from the record books.

Having said all that, the record we were aiming at on Friday wasn’t a post-Football League one. We’d already passed that mark for games unbeaten: we were tilting at the outright club record of 20 games in all competitions without suffering a loss, established in 1901.

What I’m not 100% sure of is whether we did it or not! We drew 2-2 with Altrincham, but lost on penalties. So did our unbeaten run end of not?

I think we equalled the record. After all, Altrincham didn’t score more goals than us, so we didn’t lose. It was a draw after 90 minutes, so we didn’t lose. Others might argue that we clearly lost because we’re no longer in the FA Trophy. If you’re eliminated, you must have lost.

I don’t know for sure how we can adjudicate this. Perhaps it’s destined to go into our record books but, like some many other club achievements, to have an asterisk next to it.