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Aston Villa vs.Tottenham Hotspur live stream 2016: game time, TV channels, and how to watch online

In which I manage to suck the fun out of playing the bottom team in the league.

By Dustin George-Miller
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With sincere apologies to Aston Villa supporters (side-eyes 7500 to Holte), Aston Villa are trash. Bottom of the table, helpless, hopeless, they are a dead team kicking, a side of pathetic slow-moving football zombies that are just biding their time until the season mercifully ends and they can restructure for life in the English Championship.

So why am I so nervous?

It probably has more to do with the fact that Spurs have looked underwhelming against top-quality opposition lately that makes me irrationally expecting the OLD Tottenham to take the field today at Villa Park. I shouldn't. This is a full-strength Tottenham side that will take the pitch today, with Eric Dier and Dele Alli back, and Danny Rose marauding up the left flank. Several key players got rested during the Dortmund Debacle™, which tells you all you need to know about which competition Mauricio Pochettino sees as his priority. Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen are playing fantastic, and Harry Kane was a monster against Arsenal.

And yet there's still pressure here. Thanks to Leicester's 5 point cushion at the top of the table, this is an absolute must-win for Spurs. And they probably will. But still, there's that nagging doubt. Drop points today and Spurs might just kiss their title hopes goodbye, with upcoming games at Anfield, the Brittania, and Stamford Bridge.

Meanwhile, there's no pressure at all on Villa. They already know their fate. There's no MOTIVATION, but there's a sense that they have nothing to lose, so y'know, yolo. Expect busses parked in front of goals and men behind the ball, and let's hope that the combination of a defense set up to frustrate and the home-pitch advantage of Villa Park isn't enough to stop Spurs' high-falutin' offense.

God, that's a depressing write-up, isn't it? I blame Alan Hutton. Let's smash 'em.

COYS!

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How to Watch

Date/time: Sunday, March 13, 2016, 5:00 p.m.. (UK), 12:00 p.m. ET (USA)
Venue: Villa Park, Birmingham, UK
Official: Anthony Taylor
TV: NBC Sports Network, Telemundo (USA), Not Televised (UK), TSN 1 (Canada), Fox Sports 1 (Australia), other listings at livesoccertv.com
Streaming: NBC Sports Live Extra (USA)
Radio: Audio streamed at tottenhamhotspur.com, also BBC Radio London and TalkSport

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