IT HAD to happen sometime, and it just has.
Falkirk have got the monkey off their back – not that they ever wanted it away.
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Brendan Rodgers called them ‘the best side’ Celtic have faced this season.
But John McGlynn’s team finally tasted a league defeat for the first time since April LAST YEAR as Raith Rovers stunned the Bairns in Kirkcaldy.
They had won or drawn every regular season league game since losing to Edinburgh City on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 – a full 529 days ago.
Or, if you like, 75 and a half weeks.
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It was a proud record that saw them through the entire campaign last term where the Bairns won the League One title at a canter – and carried on their form into the Championship.
They earned plaudits for their performance against Celtic last weekend and twice led against the Scottish champions in the Premier Sports Cup quarter-final at Parkhead.
But after pride came the fall in Fife.
Neil Collins’ side inflicted the first league defeat on ‘the Invincibles’ in 2024 with a Jack Hamilton penalty after 11 minutes – and that’s how it finished at Starks Park in a shock result watched by ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Ayr are now clear at the summit after winning 1-0 at home to Morton, and Scott Brown‘s side also benefitted from the spot.
However, all is not lost for John McGlynn and his side.
They still have a record to maintain despite the Rovers’ reverse.
Falkirk may have lost the streak – but their fans haven’t witnessed a home defeat in the league since November 5, 2022.
That’s 693 days or 99 WEEKS.
It’ll be 100 by the time they put that record on the line again in a top of the table cracker next Saturday when Brown and the Honest Men visit.
Elsewhere, Livingston left it late to defeat bottom side Airdire with an injury-time winner from Andrew Shinnie in West Lothian that moves them a point off Falkirk.
Hamilton leap-frogged Partick Thistle with a 1-0 win over the Jags while Callum Davidson‘s Queen‘s Park went fourth with a 2-1 win over struggling Dunfermline.
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Queen of the South moved to the top of League One with a win over Dumbarton as last week’s leaders Alloa drew 2-2 with Montrose.
East Fife did the same in League Two – Dick Campbell’s side moved top by winning 1-0 at The Spartans as Peterhead drew 2-2 with Clyde.
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