finish 5th than win it now.
Hope against hope to be proved wrong but by the end of this week we will be between six and eight points away from the leaders. We have to go to Barcelona for the dead rubber and to Hull for the only realistic hope of a trophy.
No way do we recover those points in nine games with the current apathy and with those distractions.
The one ray of hope would be Wilsher and Cazorla coming back and having an immediate impact but more likely Wilsher will come back and get a knock and Cazorla won't be ready till late next month by which time it will be over in the league.
I am normally an optimistic person.