Manchester City can break a few more records as they ring out the old year and welcome in 2018.
Unbeaten City's 1-0 win at Newcastle on Wednesday gave them a staggering 15-point lead in the Premier League, the largest ever in England's top flight at Christmas.
It not only extended their league-record winning run to 18 games but was also their 11th straight away victory, matching the top-division mark set by Chelsea in 2008.
"When you win 18 games in a row, you have to expect teams do whatever they can to stop you," manager Pep Guardiola said after the match.
"We have to keep working the same way we have since the start of the season.
"The title is not won yet, it is still to be decide."
City wrap up England's traditional busy holiday programme by visiting Crystal Palace on Sunday and hosting Watford on Tuesday.
Victory in the first game would not only set a new consecutive away wins standard, it would match the 19 straight wins that Bayern Munich, managed by Guardiola, strung together during the 2013-14 season.
No team in any of Europe's top five leagues - England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France - has won more.
And while the records are nice, they don't compare to the ultimate prize of being Premier League champions, according to Raheem Sterling.
"No one's thinking the records," he said after scoring the winner at Newcastle.
"Of course it's nice to have on your CV but at the end of the day we need to keep winning, keep getting the three points.
"That's the most important thing."
With the title race seemingly all but over, the battle for the top four, and Champions League qualification, rages on.
Second-placed Manchester United (43 points) and Chelsea (42) have a bit of wiggle room over a group of four teams - Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Burnley - separated by five points for the final place.
Liverpool, fourth on 38 points, face the toughest test of the entire group by hosting eighth-placed Leicester and travelling to Burnley, who also take on Huddersfield.
Manchester United welcome Southampton and visit Everton while Chelsea take on struggling Stoke before heading to north London to face Arsenal.
Before that, the Gunners face a pair of relegation-threatened teams starting with Thursday night's visit to 16th-placed Crystal Palace, followed by a weekend trip to second-bottom West Brom.
Tottenham also face teams fighting for survival in last-placed Swansea and fourth-bottom West Ham.
Those games could afford Harry Kane the chance to continue his fine form after setting a league record for goals in a calendar year with 39.
"It was important to finish the year strongly and we've done that so hopefully 2018 will be even better," he said after scoring his second straight hat-trick against Southampton on Tuesday.
"We'll go into another busy period full of confidence."
At the bottom of the table, six points separate Southampton in 14th from Swansea but only one game features teams in a survival fight.
That comes on New Year's Day when West Brom, winless in 18 games, visit West Ham, who sit one point above the drop zone in 17th.
