The league table shows West Ham in an unlikely fifth position and scrapping for a Champions League place.

Co-chairman David Sullivan is studying the form and calculating what it all means.

Here he answers questions set by Head of Sport LEE CLAYTON.

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West Ham's stunning season has seen them rise to within a point of the Champions League places

West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan, pictured at the Olympic Stadium, answers Sportsmail's questions

Are you feeling the pressure?

No. Pressure is being where Norwich, Sunderland and Newcastle are. And Crystal Palace, they’re not safe yet. Alan Pardew is a good manager but they will all be breathing heavily. That’s pressure.

Sam Allardyce has come back like a tiger and he could lead Sunderland to salvation. He’s recharged after he needed a rest. No, I’m glad to be away from all that.

When you look at the league table, what do you see?

Leicester. The Leicester miracle. And then I see Stoke, going well and queuing up behind us. I want to look up but I also want to defend the position we are in.

Leicester's 'miracle' has been Sullivan's highlight of the season, with the Foxes closing in on the league title

The Hammers chief says he hopes Leicester can win the Premier League, with West Ham winning the FA Cup

Sullivan is the financier and executive producer for Fall of the Krays, which is out on DVD, Blu-Ray and Double Pack next Monday

What are you doing to keep your mind clear?

I am the financier and executive producer for Fall of the Krays — which is out next Monday on DVD, make sure you mention that.

British films are my hobby. I love the locations, the stories, the accents. Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Peter Sellers. I fell in love with it then and now it is giving me a light distraction, but only a light one.

But there will be nerves in the Manchester City and Manchester United boardrooms...

United are coming again — they have five home games and three away games remaining. The same as us. They are still in the FA Cup and they are turning a corner. They will fancy finishing fourth.

City? They made a big mistake announcing a change of manager in the middle of the season. It has demotivated their players. Half of them know they will be out when Pep Guardiola comes.

They have the ex-Barcelona people and some of their people look down on us. In the past, they always beat us. They beat us 9-0 in the League Cup the other season, but nobody has all the answers.

The last two matches — a 2-2 draw at Chelsea, following a 1-1 draw in the FA Cup at Manchester United... the form is good.

We’re dreaming of what can happen and we’re playing great football. At United and Chelsea we deserved to win. We passed the ball in a wizardly fashion.

Do you know we haven’t had a penalty away in four years and we have the least number of penalties in the league in those four years? We’re due some luck.

Manuel Lanzini skips away from Manchester United's Ander Herrera as West Ham drew at Old Trafford

The West Ham players salute their fans after a performance Sullivan described as 'wizardly' against United

What has manager Slaven Bilic brought to the club?

He was a gamble — I told him that. And now I’ve told him he is looking less of a gamble! He impresses me, he is passionate and he talks with sense and intelligence.

In my 25 years in football I have listened to some of my managers speak after a game and thought: ‘Who is he kidding? Does he think we are stupid?’ But Slaven calls it and I like the way he calls it.

If we’ve been lucky, Slaven will say that. If we’ve played badly, he will say that. The fans have got someone who feels the game as they do.

And he fights like mad for his players. When they had fines owed to the club, he came and fought for them and had the fines removed. I’m not sure I liked that... it cost us a few quid! But he fought for them. Fines for indiscipline, that sort of thing.

He has a gravitas, a strength. I am proud of him and respect him. Now can he do it again next season?

Bringing Slaven Bilic to West Ham 'was a gamble' admits Sullivan, but it is one that has paid off this season

Bilic celebrates a Hammers goal, and his 'gravitas' and 'strength' have earned him Sullivan's respect

And what about Dimitri Payet?

We are not a one-man team. You look at Sunderland and those goals from Jermain Defoe — and their survival is in his hands.

You say Payet and, yes, he is our star, but I can say (Manuel) Lanzini, (Michail) Antonio, (Mark) Noble, (Cheikhou) Kouyate. We’ve just given Kouyate a new deal, even though he had more than four years on his last one.

We want to reward excellence. They have all played their part.

Dimitri Payet has been in stunning form for West Ham this season, but they are not a one-man team

Sullivan says that teams like Sunderland are over-reliant on the likes of Jermain Defoe, unlike his side

How did the Payet deal come about?

Mark McKay, the agent, came to me and I checked his stats. Payet: best assists in France, third best in Europe.

We were talking to the then Marseille manager Marcelo Bielsa about coming to West Ham and we said: ‘Who is the one player you would bring?’ He said Payet.

Later I said to Slaven: ‘What do you think of Payet?’ And he said: ‘I’d love him — not only will he achieve great things, but he will make the other players better. They will get passes they wouldn’t normally get and score goals they wouldn’t normally score.’

So the negotiations went on and on, the fee went up and up, the wages went up and up. It started at £6million and wages of £40,000 a week and ended up at... well, that’s confidential... but a lot of money. He’s worth it.

Payet, pictured in action at Chelsea, was first recommended to West Ham by agent Mark McKay

When Marcelo Bielsa was in talks about managing West Ham he wanted to bring Payet to the club

What has been the best moment of the season?

I hope it is still to come. I want West Ham to get to Wembley and win the FA Cup. That’s the priority.

So far? Too many! Beating Spurs at home after they humiliated us at their place. Winning 3-0 at Liverpool, winning 2-1 at Manchester City, coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Everton, Payet’s free-kick at Manchester United.

But all that is tempered by the fact we never turned up at Watford or Newcastle and we didn’t turn up until the last 15 minutes at Norwich. Those performances still irk.

Are you allowing yourself to think of reaching the Champions League?

You can’t allow yourself to think about that. I’m too busy! Sorting the Manchester United FA Cup replay time. And anyway, if you finish fourth, you don’t qualify, you have to pre-qualify.

And we would be unseeded, so it would be a difficult fixture against the third-best team in Spain, or something like that. I had my eye on Arsenal and third, but we needed Everton to get something and they didn’t.

The Frenchman's free-kick against Manchester United is one of Sullivan's moments of the season so far

So you have thought about it ...

I know it’s worth about €12m (£9.4m). And you can hardly get a player for that! We’ve just signed Lanzini on a permanent deal for that sort of money.

Juventus went all the way last season and it was worth €67m (£52m) to them. And we’re not going to go all the way, are we?

We could have got £10m more by raising the prices at the Olympic Stadium, but we have gone for prices to please rather than extort money from our fans.

Juventus earned around £50m for reaching the Champions League final last season, where they lost to Barca

How are the sales going?

We’re sold out at 54,000, which is the current capacity. We will increase it to 60,000 for the start of next season, subject to planning. And the year after, we might go to 66,000. Football is about taking your chances and this is a chance.

Chelsea will be very strong again next season, mark my words. The competition will be fierce but we are loving being among it. It’s a season you never want to end.

I hope Leicester win the league and we win the Cup and finish fourth. Imagine starting in the new stadium with that on our cv...

Fall of the Krays is out on DVD, Blu-Ray and Double Pack next Monday.