What is interesting is the poll result. Some 27% did not believe Villa would even make the top 7...
Some of those might have been after the Manure / Wolves double loss which, at least the latter was looked at as three points dropped. Following that up with matches against Spurs, 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' and Brighton and I can see why people might have voted "not a chance".
Then you have the people who don't want to get their hopes up so will vote for the worst case so "well I expected it to happen" if it comes to pass, and pleasantly surprised if it doesn't.
And then you have "fans" like Wilma.