When Burnley were preparing for this most remarkable of seasons at a training camp close to Dublin last summer, Sean Dyche sat back and considered his squad.
Even their proud manager had no inclination of how brilliantly they would perform.
Asked now whether he had thought about the possibility of qualifying for European football, Dyche is emphatic: ‘No.’
And yet his side are seventh in the Premier League, six points clear of eighth-placed Leicester City with six games to go.