“We’ll be winning big soon enough,” MacAnthony stated before last Saturday’s 4-1 thrashing of Rochdale.
Ipswich Town might now be nervous ahead of this Saturday’s League One game at Posh as they were stuffed 7-1 in a Championship fixture at London Road in 2011.
That win features prominently in the list of the biggest wins Posh have ever achieved in the Football League.
Posh have won by eight goals once, by seven goals on three occasions and by six goals 14 times, all remembered here...
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8-2 v Accrington, League Two, 2008. Later in the 2007-08 season the Holy Trinity shared eight goals on a wet Tuesday night (George Boyd 3, Aaron Mclean 3, Craig Mackail-Smith 2).
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7-1 v Exeter (home), Division Four, 1961. The Fourth Division champions scored a record 134 goals in the 1960-61 campaign. Terry Bly (pictured) hit a hat-trick in this one with Billy Hails scoring twice. There were two own goals.
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7-1 v Aldershot (home), Division Four, 1961. Three weeks after the 7-1 rout of Exeter, Dennis Emery and Ray Smith bagged hat-tricks with Bly claiming his customary goal in this massive win. The title winning 1960-61 team is pictured.. Photo: Midlands
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7-1 v Mansfield (away), Division Three, 1966. Until the Barnet game this was Posh’s biggest away win, courtesy of goals from Tommy Watson (3), who is pictured, Johnny Byrne (2), Ollie Conmy and Peter Deakin. Photo: Midlands