Saints could be only a matter of eight wins from breaking the monopoly of the big clubs in the Champions league.
There are those who say that if Southampton Football Club can qualify for the Champions League, then that would be one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Premier League.
They would not be far wrong for although the likes of Everton, Newcastle and even Spurs have managed it on rare occasions, the stark reality is that 75% of the club are virtually there to make up the numbers.
But that has changed this season with Saints leading the way for the underdog and shocking the footballing world in a way that even the most optimistic Saints supporter could not have dreamed of.
Now we sit proudly in third place and although it is getting tighter at the top it is firmly in our hands.
Eight wins from our remaining fourteen games would usually be enough to give us that benchmark of around 80 points which normally gets you a top four finish.
Now that sounds an ominous target, but to put it in perspective Arsenal. United and Tottenham all need nine wins whilst Liverpool would require at least ten.
This makes our task quite clear, keep winning and we keep the pressure and onus on the others to catch us and we have a great chance to do that against West Ham at home on Wednesday night, beat them and put ourselves eleven points ahead of them and they will not be happy hammers and it would virtually guaranteed us a top eight finish.
But we want better than that, we want to be the toast of the nation, if we can take maximum points of the Hammers then that will have been a great run of games through adversity with so many injuries and it would see the squad start to get stronger as the injured return, not to mention our new signing Filip Djuricic.
This being the case then we will be stronger as a squad than at any other time in the season and if we do get Jay Rodriguez back playing near the end of the season that could be a timely boost right at the right time.
So keep the countdown going only eight wins to go.