Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur – live! | Paul Doyle
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Preamble:
Harry Redknapp reckons Tottenham are in with a decent shout of winning the league and he’s right. By the same token, however, there’s also a strong risk of them missing out on a top four finish, which, like a teenage fumbler in the back row of the cinema, would give their season an anti-climatic feel. Victory at Villa today is obviously not a must, what with us not even having reached the campaign’s half-way point yet, but it would be, well, quite handy – indeed, that goes for both sides, for Villa are in danger of being sucked into a relegation scrap. Gérard Houllier, like Alex McLeish across the city (and Mark Hughes at Fulham), will presumably be looking for a decent striker in January, amongst other things, but will Randy Lerner given him any lolly? The American was once lauded as the ideal club-owners but he hasn’t spent a penny in 2010, and that’s a hell of a long time to go without using the toilet. Ahem. Seriously, though, Lerner’s recent stinginess suggests Houllier and Villa are paying for the profligacy of Martin O’Neill.
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