Arsenal's unbeaten Premiership run has garnered enough news print to satisfy even the most ardent Gunners fan.
Arsene Wenger's side have played 34, won 24 and drawn 10, and few teams in any sport can boast such a run...except for one some 120 miles west.
Worcester RFC, with a smidgen of media attention, have strolled to promotion after 26 wins from 26 games.
Among those playing a crucial role in that climb to the Zurich Premiership is wing/full-back Daren O'Leary.
 Former Gloucester star O'Leary is relishing a return to the Premiership |
Anyone would be forgiven for allowing O'Leary and his team-mates to lift the roof at their Sixways Stadium after such a gargantuan effort. But the veteran of 12 previous Premiership seasons with Harlequins and then Gloucester is unfazed.
He told the BBC Sport website: "We've ended up with 26 wins from 26 so you can't ask for any more than that at the start of the season.
"But we're not annoyed we haven't got anything like the attention of Arsenal in doing it. When you think about it, we haven't really achieved anything yet. Our first season in the Premiership is yet to come.
"It's impossible to compare us to the Gunners. If Wasps or Gloucester had done something similar in the Premiership, then ok.
"Added to that, very few would have predicted an unbeaten season for Arsenal. We genuinely believed it could happen for us, and not just unbeaten - 26 wins from 26.
"Promotion was the first aim. The rest just slotted into place."
 | WORCESTER'S ROUTE TO THE TOP Played: 26 Won: 26 Points for: 1119 Points against: 339 Bonus points: 21 Points total: 125 |
O'Leary, though, is well aware a completely different season awaits them in 2004/5, and the form guide is not on their side. A year ago, Rotherham dominated Division One and kicked off their Premiership season amid a fanfare of positivity which rapidly turned to dust. Twenty games in, they have failed to register a win.
But O'Leary is adamant things are different for Worcester and said: "Rotherham have not had a great season so pundits who haven't really watched us this year have made the sweeping judgement that we'll do the same.
"We're everyone's favourites to go back down...except within Worcester. I know what's needed to stay in the Premiership and I believe we've got it.
"We're in a better position than Rotherham. In terms of facilities I don't think any Premiership side can outdo Worcester. And the set-up feels as professional, if not more than at Gloucester and Harlequins."
Worcester have the financial clout behind them in Cecil Duckworth, who made his �30m from boilers and has already ploughed �10m into the club. Duckworth is likely to have to dig deeper still, especially if recent newspaper reports are to be believed.
Already the club have been linked with moves for Martin Corry, Tony Diprose, Terry Fanolua, Pat Sanderson, Mike Catt and, most ambitiously of all, Australian fly-half Stephen Larkham.
But O'Leary added: "We're everyone's favourite rumour at the moment. Anyone moving seems to be linked to us. But I know so little about who coaches are talking to.
"We need to strengthen - maybe pick up four or five non-starting internationals on the verge or just finished player would be more use for us.
"It would be nice if one of those is a big name."
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