Chris Davies believes Birmingham’s new League One points record will not be broken after their 4-0 victory over Mansfield took their tally to 105.
Goals from Keshi Anderson, Willum Willumsson, Kieran Dowell and Tomoki Iwata, gave Birmingham their 32nd victory of the league campaign and saw them move past Wolves’ record of 103 set in 2013-14.
The hosts were presented with the trophy after the game and, with two matches remaining, still have Reading’s all-time EFL record of 106 in their sights.
The Blues manager did not try to conceal his pride, saying: “It was a really special day for the club, I was aware it would be amazing no matter what, but we wanted to sign off, unbeaten (at home) and with a great performance, and we had all that.
“Then the scenes at the end, that’s a season’s long, hard work being celebrated there, picking up the trophy and lifting it in front of the fans, it was a special, special occasion.
“To be honest, no, it (the record) wasn’t on my mind. My mind at the start of the season was ‘Let’s win a few games and see where we go’.
“But as we got started and got going I was aware that’s what Wolves had done previously and I’ll keep saying this – to get 105 points in a season people might say ‘Well, yeah’ and take it for granted.
“This isn’t something to be taken for granted, it’s an incredible achievement to go and get that amount of points, the consistency that they’ve shown week in, week out.
“This was our 58th game of the season and 105 points, I really don’t think it will get touched again, it’s an amazing achievement.”
Stags’ first team coach Andy Garner admitted his team were outclassed on the day, even if they should have taken the lead through Adedeji Oshilaja, but overall it has been objective achieved.
“It was a very difficult game but our priority was staying in the league at the beginning of the season. We’ve done that, which is fantastic,” he said.
“To come and play against the best team in League One, with very good players, we’ve changed it around a little bit to save a few for Wednesday night against Peterborough, but fantastic effort from the lads.
“You’ve got to have a little look at Deji’s header, seven minutes in, I said to him at half-time if there’s an award for miss of the season he’d have won it by an absolute country mile. He has to score. It could have changed the game totally.
“You’ve watched the game, you’ve seen it as well, four goals, some of the movement in the box is, very, very good, too good for us, that’s for sure. But the movement’s very good and very quick and they’ve been doing it all season so that’s why the top of the league.”
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