Harrogate 2-1 United: 7th February 2026
How full is your glass?
Cambridge United were going to lose eventually.
When they’d been beaten at Notts County at the end of October, it felt inconceivable that it would over three months before they’d taste defeat again. But as the results kept racking up and they reached 14 league games unbeaten you could be forgiven for looking at the fixture list and wondering where the next stern test would come from.
Harrogate, Crawley and Bristol Rovers in successive games? What a chance to make it 17 matches without defeat and set a new club record, surpassing even the spectacular start to a campaign that culminated in promotion back to League Two in 2014 after nine years in non-League.
The run would end at 14. Certainly nobody saw Saturday coming, either the result or the performance. A text message received that evening from somebody who wasn’t there echoed the question going through the minds of the 1,054 who did fill out the away end, asking simply “What happened?”
