Villa have been extremely lucky to be where they are this season. In almost every game the deciding decision has gone in your favour. I know this because my best mates a vllian. I've seen opposition goals ruled out for offside when they were on, blatent opposition penalties not given and the opposite always happens in Villas favour. Even yesterday Everton should of had a penalty. Also for such a small squad you have not had a sinlge injury all season. 2 months ago things went pear shaped for a few weeks, your luck ran out and your season ended. I wish you well for the Intertoto at least but I wouldn't get too carried away cos reality is just around the corner.

nicky

if your position was one based on fact and not make-believe then you wouldn't get the slating you're about to get, possibly.

not had a single injury all season?

but you are right. reality is just round the corner but the league table doesn't lie

Well.. that wasn't a self-serving piece of non-claptrap that never made me want to retch.

Those grapes your choking down there a bit sour mate?

What a load of garbage, i take it Nicky is a bitter everton fan, or some kind of Blue muppet anyway.. We have been lucky with injuries and thats it, apart from that we have had some excellent results, played some blinding football, and absolutely battered alot of teams.. Yesterday was not a penalty as Petrov was moving his arm away from the ball, not towards it, i hate all these calls for hand ball recently, the fact is if someone blasts a ball towards your arm or hand its impossible to get out the way, then they put the 'Slow motion' on the replays and it looks like the player is doing a deliberate hand ball. GARBAGE..

Nicky - it isn't like referees don't make blatant mistakes when officiating other games now is it? Yes, we've had luck. But so has every other team at some point during the season.

Luck>Ability

Nicky, what a plonker u really are!

Not a single injury to Curtis Davies for a third of the season, Craig Gardner for the past three weeks, John Carew for a fair few weeks. All are part of the 16 starters that were mentioned plus Gabby, Mellberg, Barry et al have missed games here and there through injury.

You obviously can see that you are talking a load of old pony and the fact that you didn't have the balls (or ovaries, Nicky is a girls name) to state who you support shows that whoever it is that you support has there own shortcomings that you don't want slated.

There are only four teams that definately will finish above Villa and i bet my shirt that you don't support any of them, you're probably just a jealous Bluenose!

That is all.

'I know this because my best mates a villian' Priceless! ;D

what about villa bein the second highest goal scorers in the league behind man utd and the highest goal scorers away from home plus the 52% of our goals is from set pieces im sure not all that is luck im sure its just some hard work at the training ground.

Maybe you should try looking back over the season and see how many games I'm talking about. Yes refs get it wrong, but for whatever reason Villa are getting vital decisions every week. Take a look before you slate me. As for injuries, yes you've had a player out here or there but you haven't had a few out at the same time for any length of time. I know I'm right because every weekend I get onto my mate. I'm telling you. Before you slate me, at least one of you have a look back through the season so far.

All keepers make mistakes, just look at calamity James.

Carson will become world class!

yesterday we go 1-0 down but the fightin spirit from the lads was quality, thats not luck we keep fightin on to get points. the end of the day the league table doesnt lie mon has done wonders this year

nicky your a complete idiot,tell me how many teams go to chelsea and score 4 goals against them then tell me how many teams go to blackburn and score another 4 goals even the likes of man u and liverpool never got any where near, ok we had our little bit of so called luck with injuries or was this down to the training methods employed by mon,and is team, wake up nicky you might see a half decent team for once.

what about when we beat bolton 4-0, derby 6-0, blues 5-1 those wins cant be put down to refs in our favour. the luck has gone against us aswel like 1st game of the season we played liverpool and bout 5min to go gerrard popped up wiv a free kick to win and that shouldnt of really been a free kick.

barry must stay at villa park,its about time we let the manager and the rest of the world know this before we lose one of the best players we have had for a long time by offering him a contract he just cannot refuse and also a barry must stay day at the wigan match

Unfortunately Nicky you have been a bit niave to post something like you did on a Villa website and not expect to get some stick back.

Villa and Everton both have smaller than average squads and both teams have done well. However to suggest that the majority of our victories are down to luck is ridiculous. In fact if you look at yesterdays match, Neville was incredibly lucky with his goal as it Laursen and went in.

Then to try and qualify your statement by using 'my mate a Villa fan' is silly.

I have no problems with over fans posting on other fans sites if it is something that has any fact behind it, but that is the one thing your statement is lacking.

I am not going to flame, but just look back at what you wrote and what FACTUAL information do you have to back up your statement?

How about the extra time that got given to Arsenal when we were winning 1-0, arn't we just so lucky! ;D

i'll play devil's advocate for a moment and assume there's a nugget of truth in Nicky's claims... there's two explanations for a team to be "lucky' during the course of an entire season:

A) a huge conspiracy by referees to defraud the premier league and cheat aston villa up the table.

B) aston villa's approach to games, i.e. fair, positive and attacking will naturally lead to officials giving the benefit of the doubt here and there.

*IF* there was a nugget of truth i would say B myself, fortune favours the brave and you make your own luck in this world!!

however, the truth is that we've had luck go against us in equal measure - the difference these days is that it doesn't get our heads down and affect the result as it would in years past.

as for injuries, you can't legislate for the bad ones like curtis davies, but the fact we don't suffer from debilitating levels of niggling injuries in our small squad, like strains and pulls for instance, is testament to our world class training facilities IMO. again, you make your own "luck".

when you have the quality set up aston villa has these days you can manage a lot of things other teams leave up to "luck". evidently it leaves fans of our rivals jealous and us open to the silly accusations often aimed at the big four... thanks for stopping by an confirming what we all know.... aston villa are on their way to great things!!

UTV

Oh, I don't know chaps - I think we should all be very grateful to Nicky. Davies will be [i]delighted [/i]to learn that his Achilles isn't actually ruptured... I mean, you'd think with all the physios who looked at it, they would have noticed a detail like that. But fortunately Nicky is here to set them straight. (And no doubt Carew will be relieved to hear that he's never really injured either - buck up and get back on the pitch, lad!)

Nicky, I just ask you take a look at the following website: LINK

This site gives results based on what it would have been had the referee got all decisions right. You will find that the Villa would have 5 points less than they currently do. Not exactly lucky decisions all year like you suggested eh?

Nicky is a wanker, Nicky is a wanker, la la la la, la la la la. Think that pretty much sums things up.

the season isnt even over and we havent taken everton over yet (which we will) and already everton fans(nicky i presume) are coming on here bitching and whining, i love it, the fact that they know we have a better squad, a better manager and a better future. but what else can they expect when they rely on a former blues player to score there goals.

LMAO, Leo thats priceless :D.
As far as luck goes it swings and roundabouts, anyone remember THAT free kick that gerrard scored on the opening day that robbed us of 1 pnt, the dubious ref in the man utd game that gave 2 red's, the blatant dive by ballack in our 4-4 draw at the bridge, that extra minute against arsenal in which bentder(sp?) equalised for the gooners and the most recent is the defelection off lausen to give everton the lead against us.

Thats only what i can remember off the top of my head so im sure there's more, but even looking at that table no team is that far from their current possition really.
Oh and Nicky, who do you support?

Lads can we all point and laugh at Everton
cause there gonna mess up 5th and gonna lose out to the
mighty villa.

Were all going on a European Tour!!!!!
UTV

Damian, you were dead right about Nick getting stick, so much that I forgot what the original article was about!

Do we remember the comments we made at the start of the season? After a VERY quiet transfer market in the summer we couldn't imagine chasing 5th place at this stage. 5th place FFS!! 5 - the magic number. Nicky don't lose that number. HA HA HA. UTV etc.....

Can I just say thanks to Nicky, this is the first article I've written and managed 25 comments without any critisism(constructive or otherwise).
Cheers Chris.

oh, was there an article on this page somewhere?? must have missed it!! ;)

well done primeminister not even any spelling mistakes ;D

Nice one Leo.. and I'm guessing that Nicky is a bitter Bluenose so she will see that based on the 'rightresult' website the Blues are even further into the brown stuff that is the relegation places.

Defintly a lot a players needed in his 2nd season has martin got it in him to sign 8 or 9 players tho i dont think so its defintly what we need

if we dont get at least;
gk
rb
cb
lb
wg
dcm
acm
st

the best we can hope for is the same again next year!

sorry i am delighted with this season regardless of how it finishes tho!

I really shouldn't get involved in stuff like this as it's not good for the ticker and i shouldn't really be letting the opinions of Nicky get to me. But it has made me wonder why i feel as mad as i do about his/her comments.
And it's this...many Villa fans have replied and listed several occasions where we have been totally unlucky and lost out on valuable points.
Not once has Nicky backed his theory that we've been lucky in almost every game with any cold hard facts.
Can you please supply reference of all these occasions where Villa have been so lucky for all of us Villa fans to recall, because on the whole, i can't remember any.

Thats what's getting to me because I can't work out if Nicky is a nob/fanny, or if there is any substance to his/her arguement. I look forward to the comprehensive list.

UP THE VILLA ;) ;)

celtic_villain ur a bit pessimistic mate. i was thinkin more of a gk, 2 rbs, cover at cb bentley or van der vaart.