As the season’s home straight approaches, Wycombe will need all the inspiration they can get to give themselves the best possible chance of avoiding relegation.
Wanderers sit 11 points from safety with eight games to play, and need everything to go in their favour over the next five weeks, starting with the Easter weekend double header and ending with the final-day trip to Middlesbrough.
Fortune hasn’t exactly been commonplace for the Chairboys in their debut Championship campaign, with several controversial decisions costing them vital points.
Then Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri (left), Christian Fuchs (centre), Kasper Schmeichel and Riyad Mahrez (right) with the PL trophy in May 2016. A year earlier, under Nigel Pearson, the club avoided relegation over winning seven of their last nine league matches (Nick Potts/PA)
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However, Gareth Ainsworth’s men still have a chance of an unlikely survival and will need to really sharpen up in the final third to do so, with Wycombe the lowest scorers in the league.
Alex Pattison should be fit to return from injury for the Blackburn game on Good Friday, giving Wanderers a virtually clean bill of health should no further names have been added to the treatment table over the break.
With half of their remaining fixtures against sides who have little to play for, Wycombe may be able to impose themselves on games a little more to get the points they need.
A year after avoiding relegation in 2015, Leicester won the Premier League in 2016 (PA)
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They can also take inspiration from Premier League sides in recent years who have avoided the trap door against all odds.
It seems a long time ago now, but Wigan Athletic, whose torrid spell of ownership problems looks to have come to an end this week, made a habit of doing just that.
The Latics sat bottom of the table with just a handful of games left in 2010-11, and remarkably stayed up.
Roberto Martinez (pictured here in 2015 at Everton), kept Wigan up in 2011 and in 2012 and the FA Cup with the club in 2013. However, they were relegated from the PL just three days after winning the trophy (Peter Bryne/PA)
In 2011-12, they did so again having picked up just 20 points from their first 27 games, a similar points-per-game ratio to what Wycombe have achieved so far this campaign.
Sunderland also famously escaped the drop on several occasions, changing managers almost every season.
In 2014, The Black Cats were 20th in the top flight with five to play and survived under Gus Poyet.
West Ham did similar seven years before that, unbelievably picking up 21 points from their last nine games to finish 15th.
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Gareth Ainsworth has also believed that Wycombe are capable of staying in the Championship this season (Prime Media)
Wycombe may need a points haul like that in the next month, but a story that can really resonate with the squad is Leicester’s.
While Wanderers were embroiled in a battle to get out of League Two in 2015, Nigel Pearson’s Leicester sat on just 19 points with nine to play and managed to finish on 41.
That was amazing enough, before they went on to produce one of the greatest upsets in the history of sport by lifting the Premier League title under Claudio Ranieri a year later.
Although Wycombe surviving from here may not rival that, it would still be an incredible achievement.
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