Regardless of the result on Saturday, we’re winners. Things are going beautifully in the league, off the field we’re a club whose ownership model is the envy of everyone else, and we’re just having so much fun!

Still, if we were to manage something outrageous, it would be about as typical of Wrexham as you could imagine.

Confidence leads to success. Under Phil Parkinson we’ve become a team that believes.

Before relegation to the National League, I recall a lengthy spell where we seemed utterly incapable of scoring late result-altering goals.

Now, we make a habit of it.

That’s obviously down to the greater quality of our squad; we have players who score goals and make things happen, so it makes sense that a number of them will come late on. That’s just maths!

However, we also have a terrific amount of self-belief, which has to be at least as important.

Steven Fletcher talks of arriving at the club and watching from the bench as we went into the closing stages of a game in arrears. A fellow sub reassured him that we were going to win, because that was what we always did.

Fletcher was naturally sceptical, but we ended up earning the three points and Fletcher had learned an important lesson about the club he had just joined.

Of course, he would contribute many of those late winners himself as he developed a remarkable specialism as an impact substitute. That mentality didn’t depart along with him in the Summer either.

We will not go into this match as anything but massive underdogs, but don’t tell the players that. Under Parkinson, that confidence in their ability to turn a game round is hard-wired into them. They’ll go into this game feeling it’s an opportunity to add to their legend, not an insurmountable challenge.

That applies regardless of what team Parkinson selects. Rotation has been the name of the game for him this season, and he has got the best out of a remarkable squad as a consequence.

Perhaps when we lost to Cardiff in the League Cup fifth round this season we diverged too far from our usual starting eleven, but that was because the well-grooved style we’re seeing now hadn’t embedded itself.

Some squad players weren’t fully assimilated into the way we were looking to play, plus the likes of Ollie Rathbone, given his first start of the season that day, we’re properly up to speed. Frankly, if that match helped Rathbone to reach the levels he’s playing at now, it was worth losing it!

Now they are, and it’s hard to work out just who, if anyone, is a squad player now. Whoever is selected on Saturday will back themselves to do the job.

It’s an attitude embedded deeply into the club’s DNA. You see it in the women’s team too. Fresh from two glorious victories over Cardiff which have shaken up the established order of the domestic game in Wales, they are facing another challenge against the champions on Sunday, and will have exactly the same mentality as the men’s team on Saturday. Lots of nasty stuff in infectious; pleasingly, self-belief is too.

Returning to the FA Cup tie, our opponents’ line-up will alter too.

Chelsea’s fixture list makes rotation inevitable, as this game is bracketed by a couple of the toughest away games you could imagine. Prior to the weekend they have had to visit Aston Villa four days after they come to the SToK Cae Ras they have the small matter of a Champions League encounter away to the European Champions.

Paris St Germain aren’t half bad, you know, and Rosenior won’t want to be missing a key player because Dan Scarr gave them a bit of a wallop on Saturday!

However, Chelsea have been absolutely ruthless in the cups this season when they have faced lower division opposition. Their head coach, Liam Rosenior, spoke last weekend about his pride in the depth of his squad, suggesting he could trust every one of them to do a good job for him. Their cup results bear that out.

Indeed, against lower division opposition they have become increasingly efficient as the season has gone on, and as the standard of the opponents they’ve faced has risen. They’ve been drawn away in every domestic cup round this season, a pattern only broken when they reached the two-legged semi-finals of the League Cup.

Before Christmas they travelled to League One Lincoln City and Cardiff City, as well as Premier League strugglers Wolves, rotated their side and won each time.

Since Christmas they’ve played two FA Cup ties at Championship opponents and been spectacular. A 5-1 win at Charlton was followed up by an even more impressive 4-0 triumph at Hull. We’re flying, but The Tigers are above us, so to go to Humberside and thump them like that shows that they are masterful in the sort of situation they’ll face on Saturday.

Don’t worry, though. We’re used to this.

Porto had the easiest of draws when they came to Wrexham in 1984 but failed to progress.

Arsenal should have made short work of us in 1992.

Nottingham Forest had quality players to spare last January, but they didn’t make it through when they had to deploy them in North Wales.

We upset the odds – it’s in our blood. Logic dictates that Chelsea should sweep us aside. They are the world champions after all! But logic only takes you so far.

Regardless of how good they are, regardless of how effective they are against second tier opposition, regardless of their pedigree, they are assailable.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled, or even mislead, by the wonders I’ve seen Wrexham achieve in the past. Deep down, I know we shouldn’t stand a chance. But this team has adopted the indefatigable nature of our identity despite there being sixteen new additions to the squad this season.

We shouldn’t win, but if we do, how Wrexham would that be?