You know your luck is well and truly out when three starting players Tyrone Mings, Emiliano Buendia and Boubacar Kamara all suffer season-ending injuries in one campaign.
As Aston Villa fans know too well, this isn’t the first time this has happened. When the team came up under Dean Smith, the same bad luck cursed the club.
At that time, it was starting goalkeeper Tom Heaton, promotion-winning keeper Jed Steer and big-money summer signing, Wesley.
They all suffered ACL injuries by the New Year, which forced the club to dip into the January market to sign new players and we ended up surviving relegation by the skin of our teeth.
Well, it has been much worse this time around, but it seems as though that isn’t acknowledged by certain pundits on Sky Sports.
On Super Sunday, following Manchester United’s 2-1 win at Luton Town, the panel discussed the race for the top four, which is between Aston Villa, Tottenham and Erik ten Hag’s side.
The one point Curtis Davies seemingly put on the table that might go against Unai Emery’s side is Europe, which is fair enough. We are the only ones who will have that heavy fixture list to deal with in these coming months.
But the rubbish he spouted was about what happens if one of Aston Villa’s ‘bigger players’ were to suffer an injury and how the club would deal with that is complete nonsense, as he told Sky Sports.
