Fulham boss Roy Hodgson fears he could be sacked if he leads the club into Europe next season.
He said: "I should be anti things like qualifying for Europe because if you over-achieve people don't accept it's an over-achievement.
"At Blackburn I took over a team that had survived by one point in the Premiership and, with exactly the same players, I took them to a European spot.
"It succeeded in getting me the sack because expectations rose enormously and, when we weren't in the top six the next year, they decided to get someone else in."