The differences in peoples attitudes to this is all about personality and nobody is “wrong” - whether you’re super optimistic or nervous.
This situation is very favourable and quite a lot needs to go against us for us not to finish top 5. Therefore I suspect we’ll do it quite comfortably, but because of my personality and Villa’s previous failures I’ll have a degree of nerves until it is done.
Also, and this situation is clearly way better and less likely to go awry, but I’m sure there were people last season when it came down to the Man Utd game citing how awful they were, how they had nothing to play for etc and it was pretty much done.
Massively agree with you first two paragraphs. Third one was at best 50/50 chance...and I think we needed results else where too, which we obviously had, but didn't do the business. If people were claiming it was done when we were outside the CL places and headed to sodding Old Trafford...well, what can you say. This is different.
But people who are nervous are right to be. As confident as I feel, it only really takes one bad weekend, which with all the teams below us probably just means a loss to Fulham, and people will be worried again.
