More chance of that than we had of winning the cup imo. The cup requires consecutive wins against top teams while the league just requires us to keep form. If you can get excited about that that slim possibility you should be able to get excited about a possible push for europe.
If you consider the season over now you probably should have considered it over in August. I think the odds of achieving something this season are higher now than when the season started due to form, the state of the table and matches remaining.
Still slim, but it's always been slim.
Absolutely.
As it happens, there's an article on the BBC website today which highlights that in the past five seasons, the big six have occupied 28 of the 30 top six finishes. That's two just occasions of a non-big side breaking in there, to qualify for Europe (I know that 7th can sometimes mean Europe).
Sounds like nothing at all. And indeed it is. But compared to the FA Cup - where just once in 11 years, just twice in 24 years, and just three times in 30 years, has it been won by a non-big six side - it's actually quite a lot.
Winning the FA Cup might sound way more achievable than success in the league, but it really isn't. The facts tell a totally different story.
And never more is that true than this season. Whereby the last 16 of the FA Cup contains the entire big six (I know it would have only been five of them, had we progressed) - including quite possibly one of the greatest team to ever exist in English football - but yet in the PL, Arsenal are having a complete disaster, whilst Utd, Spurs and Chelsea are hardly fairing much better. Leicester have burst through the door, and who knows if others might join them in the top 6.
Do I think we will finish 6th (or 5th, or 7th)? No. Like you, I only see it as a slim chance. But it's still a heck of a bigger chance than winning the FA Cup was ever going to be. Sure, it's disappointing that the cup run is over. Very disappointing. But I'm in no doubt that it was going to end at some point anyway.
