Albion are not receiving enough recognition for their remarkable start to the season.

It is some achievement for any team to go 14 matches undefeated, yet alone in a division as competitive from top to bottom as the Championship.

Incorporate the 0-0 draw at Middlesbrough on the final day last season and the Seagulls under Chris Hughton will equal the club's all-time unbeaten league record of 16 games with a win or draw at Sheffield Wednesday tonight.

Put into context, the sequence established by Hughton's side is all the more laudable.

Without wishing to diminish the exploits of Charlie Webb's record-setting team of 1930-31, that was in Division Three South and included 4-0 and 5-0 home wins on consecutive days over Christmas.

The opponents were not as consistently challenging then as they are now.

A better guide is how Albion have fared in more recent times in the second tier of English football.

Fans of a certain vintage have fond recollections of the team Alan Mullery steered to the top flight for the first time in the club's history in 1978-79.

Ward, Horton and company? Their longest unbeaten league run that season spanned 11 games.

What about the side Barry Lloyd took to the play-off final in 1990-91? They had a tasty strike partnership in John Byrne and Mike Small.

The best unbeaten run that season? Five matches.

Three seasons ago, Leo Ulloa, Vicente, Wayne Bridge and the rest went close to promotion under Gus Poyet. They went nine matches without defeat.

The following season, Oscar Garcia's side, spearheaded by Ulloa, squeezed into the top six with an unbeaten surge spanning eight games.

Hughton's Albion are also within reach of the club record, including all competitions, of 17 matches undefeated under Lloyd in 1987-88.

Again for context purposes, they were all against teams in the third tier.

On a broader basis, the current run emphasises what a stand-out achievement it is for Hughton's squad.

Manchester City's unbeaten start in the Premier League only lasted five games, Gillingham's in League One seven, Portsmouth's in League Two nine.

Title-winners Bournemouth, throughout their memorable campaign in the Championship last season, never went more than 14 matches undefeated.

Hughton is an old hand at this sort of thing. In 2009-10 under his command Newcastle chalked up a 17-match unbeaten conclusion to their title romp.

This is different. They had just come down from the Premier League and still had the likes of Coloccini and Carroll.

Hughton has assembled a radically overhauled squad without stars - excluding the cameo goalscoring of Bobby Zamora - and rapidly gelled them into a team that so far does not know the meaning of defeat.

They have, generally speaking, gone under the radar in the rest of the country, which may not be a bad thing. Supporters of opponents write them off, a fair proportion of Albion fans are disbelieving, waiting for it all to go wrong.

It might at Hillsborough tonight. If it does, nothing should detract from what Hughton and his players have done so far.