Aston Villa are one win off the Champions League places, they are in the quarter-final of the Champions league with Paris Saint-Germain waiting and they have just sauntered into the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Villa are on the brink of the most incredible season. No other team in England are still fighting on all three fronts, but it might still be considered a failure if they slip up now.
The problem is that this slip, or exhausted stumble, is quite likely. They play a gruelling seven games in 22 days from now, including those two against PSG, Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi at Wembley and three of the others are against direct rivals for that top-five spot.
Villa have faltered at the final fence before so this run-in will seriously test them, but notice the phrase "quite likely" at the start of the last paragraph. Failure is not a certainty, glory is still a possibility. This is a stronger and deeper squad than they have had for some time and with Marcus Rashford being reborn just before Easter the Midlands miracle can still happen.
I am not convinced they will reach all three objectives, but any one of them should make it a season to be celebrated and not bemoaned for opportunities lost.
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