Even if Leicester City pick up a victory at high-flying West Ham today, the odds are they will have the unenviable tag of being bottom of the Premier League at Christmas.
In the history of the league, only two sides have ever managed to survive relegation from being in that position, West Brom in 2005 and Sunderland last season.
Both clubs were in a similar position to City, with 10 points on the board going into the festive fixtures, but managed to turn things around in the second half of the season and City keeper Ben Hamer says that gives everyone hope.
"To be fair, looking at it last year I thought Sunderland were in real trouble but they turned it around," he said.
"They are a fine example of what can be done to turn things around.
"I am sure we can do the same thing if we put our minds to it and work hard for each other, and the fans get behind us.
"I believe we can do it, so hopefully we can.
"But there is no point saying we know what we have to do. We have to do it."
Hamer comes across as a naturally bubbly, positive person and he certainly doesn't have time for doom merchants.
"I always try to be positive because what's the point of being negative? I don't want to be like that," he said.
"There is a lot of positivity around the camp. I am a positive person anyway. I just love playing football. I am playing in the Premier League. Who wouldn't be happy with that? I just want to keep doing that.
"Whatever league you are in it is not nice being bottom of the table.
"We have half a season left. There is plenty of time to turn it around and we are confident we can do that.
"We have good players here. We haven't got bad players. We just need a bit of luck to turn for us, keep giving 100 per cent effort and be positive. If we are confident I think we will be OK.
"Christmas is a tough period because there are lots of games in a short space of time. Personally, I love that, so I will enjoy the games coming thick and fast. Hopefully, we can recover quickly.
"First off, we have to go to West Ham and hopefully kick things off with a win.
"You don't have time to think about the position in the league because the games come so quickly and before you know it we have thrown ourselves into the next game.
"The main objective is that we get a positive result at West Ham and build on that.
"Then we can look at the other games."
