Barcelona won 7-0 against Levante Las Planas in Liga F on Wednesday evening.
The result on its own is fairly unremarkable given Barça’s utter dominance of Spanish football in recent seasons – bear in mind this is a side that racked up a cumulative goal difference of +300 across the 2020/21 and 2021/22 campaigns.
But this game was special because of what it represented in a wider context.
It wasn’t just any win, it was a 50th consecutive league win.
Not since June 2021 when Atletico Madrid, themselves three-time back-to-back Spanish champions in the not too distant past, edged a…