Curtis to bury his demons; VILLA NEWS.

CURTIS Davies returns to the scene of the worst moment in his footballing career looking to "bury demons".

The pounds 9 million centre-back ruptured his Achilles in Villa's 1-1 draw at The Emirates in March which put him out for five months.

"It's good to lay your demons to rest at a stadium where you have suffered a bad injury but at the end of the day it's just a massive game," he said.

"Hopefully I will take part and do myself justice.

"First of all I want to find out if I'm playing or not. I hope I'm staying in the team but we don't know from day to day what's going on so we need to stay on our toes really."

Of the 35th-minute injury last time around he recalls: "I found myself at centreback, then at right-back and eventually on a stretcher!

"It's a bit cliched but it does make you stronger.

"It's the strangest sensation ever. It's just like getting a punch in the back of your Achilles and then after that there's no pain.

"It was weird that it was such a serious injury and yet it didn't hurt.

"Obviously I was happy there was no pain because sometimes you see people coming off the field with oxygen and that would have scared my family if they had seen me like that.

"The main thing is that it's healed right but now I can move forward and forget it."

Davies was linked with Arsenal while playing at Albion.

He added: "It was nice to be linked at the time. I was only a young lad at West Brom and my aspirations were to go and play for one of the big clubs.

"I'm at a good club playing European football, that is stable in the Premier League and is always going to be on the up.

"The first season I managed to catch the eye of the England manager so hopefully I can get back in the team, stay in the team and do my thing.