You don’t have to be Real Madrid to make soccer history.

In their own way (the wrong one), Metz are well-placed to break plenty of records. They could, in fact, end the season as the worst team in French soccer league history.

The easterners are stuck at the bottom of the Ligue 1 table with eight points from 22 matches and just one victory. Let’s take a closer look at their dreadful performances and see just how many lines in the record books they could earn.

For the lowest number of points, the French record is held by Racing Lens with 17 in the 1988-89 season (three wins, eight draws, 27 defeats). Not good, but Metz could do worse.

For the lowest number of wins, the record is shared by Reims (1978-79), Lens again (88-89) and Nimes (92-93) with three. Metz can beat that too.

The record for the lowest number of goals was set by Stade Francais, a Paris club now famous for rugby, with 18 (66-67). Metz, who have scored 11 so far, can beat that too, but must go from bad to really bad if they’re going to manage it.

They are more records at stake for Metz but let’s not be too cruel for a club who lifted the French Cup twice and boasted such great players as Robert Pires and Franck Ribery.

Unless you live there, you’ve probably never heard of most the players on their current squad, which partly explains why they could break all those records…