WORCESTER City’s recent record certainly makes for grim reading.

Indeed, eight straight defeats is the worst of any side from the Premier League down to Blue Square Bet North.

Not exactly the sort of accolade the club would have wanted, particularly in the landmark season of leaving St George’s Lane.

Nor is it one that anyone would have thought possible following a fine start to the campaign and having kept pace with the play-offs until last month.

However, as Carl Heeley’s team head to Corby Town today (3pm) looking to finally end that sequence, it is worth nothing that others have also endured a rotten time of it.

Take York City, for example. The League Two strugglers have not won for their last 15 games and are staring down the barrel of relegation.

It is a similar tale at Telford United. The Bucks have not registered a league victory in 27 attempts and will be relegated from the Blue Square Bet Premier if they lose at home to Nuneaton this afternoon.

Although they have drawn two of their last eight games, you have to go back to the 4-1 success against Dartford on October 9 to find their last win.

It has been even worse for Worcester’s Conference North rivals and whipping boys Hinckley United, who have not won in their last 30 matches.

They have only won once all season – 2-1 at Boston United on August 25 – and, adding insult to injury, have even had three points deducted for failing to pay players.

Financially struggling and fielding a team of youngsters, their record still comfortably dwarves City’s.

Worcester, after all, had won two of their three previous games prior to this barren spell and three on the spin on their travels.

Following four consecutive away defeats since, they will be heading to Steel Park this afternoon hoping to rediscover the sort of form that saw them win at Stalybridge, Droylsden and Colwyn Bay.