No it doesn't, and that's the beauty of it. No matter what happens for the rest of this season, they have set a record that may NEVER get beaten. That's done, it's in the books, they have achieved the worst start in the HISTORY of English Professional football.
What happens from now is...
Absolutely, it might be 8 or 9 by the time they are finished. Whatever it is, no-one is getting close to beating that for years, and whenever the last person falls short in future seasons by scoring a goal or getting a point, then their record (whatever it ends up reaching) is preserved as...
Gooners have been celebrating St Totteringham's Day, being the day each season that Spurs can no longer catch Arsenal, for quite a few years. All gone for a burton now of course, but they had fun with that for ages.
I'm wondering whether we start having a similar tradition whereby each year we...