The last unbeaten side standing in the Premier League this season, Liverpool's magnificent start is breaking records - and not just in the post-1992 era.
The start made by Jurgen Klopp's Reds to the 2018-19 league campaign - 13 wins and three draws - is the sixth best by any team in top-flight English football history after 16 games.
A Mohamed Salah-inspired 4-0 win at Bournemouth sent them to the top of the table on Saturday, and renewed hopes of a first league title since 1991.
While this start has been magnificent - the best ever by a Liverpool team after 16 games - the team currently in second, Manchester City, still hold the record of the best start ever at this stage of a campaign.
That came just last season, when a start of 15 wins and a solitary draw at home to Everton on match day two set Pep Guardiola's men up for a league season that broke all records.
They became the first English top flight side to break the 100-point mark, scoring 106 goals and winning 32 of their 38 fixtures.
City's slickers just edged out Tottenham's 1960-61 side for the best start after 16 league matches, although that Spurs side went on to make great history of their own.
Bill Nicholson's side still hold the longest winning run to start a season - 11 games - and that year won the league and FA Cup double, the first team to do so in the 20th century.
That legendary Spurs side of Danny Blanchflower, Bobby Smith and co remain the last Tottenham team to win the league title.
Liverpool's start cannot quite match Blanchflower's boys, but it is the equal of the original invincibles - Preston North End in 1888-89 also won 13 and drew three of their first 16 games.
That year, 16 games unbeaten took Preston most of the way to the first ever English Football League championship, and they saw out the 22-game campaign without suffering a defeat.
If this Liverpool vintage match that Preston squad's invincible achievement, it would be a truly historic season - although you suspect Klopp would be perfectly happy to trade a couple of defeats for lifting the Premier League trophy in May.
Of the top 15 starts in history to an English football top-flight season, only two have failed to go on to win the title.
Perhaps the most cautionary tale for Liverpool should come from one of their biggest rivals, Manchester United, who in 1985-86 also won 13 of their opening 16 fixtures.
However they suffered their first defeat at Sheffield Wednesday in that 16th game, and lost a further nine times in the league campaign as they fell to finish fourth.
Even more galling for United - other than going 20 years, at that stage, without a league title - it was Liverpool who won the championship, and the following season manager Ron Atkinson was sacked. He was replaced by Alex Ferguson, who did pretty well at Old Trafford.
Liverpool should also learn from their own history - after 16 games in 1990-91, they were again top of the table, having won 13 matches. They were reigning champions and looked certain to retain the trophy.
However manager Kenny Dalglish resigned in February, form went off a cliff and the Reds were overhauled by Arsenal. Liverpool have not won the league title since.
