2019-20 Premier League fixtures: Tottenham host Aston Villa in opening match

A Tottenham home opener?? Is that ALLOWED?! Today is one of the more eagerly awaited days of the offseason calendar, because it’s the day when fans finally start thinking about the new season. The fixture list for the 2019-20 Premier League was released today, and Tottenham Hotspur now knows its opponents and dates for next season.
Here’s the full schedule. Thoughts about it will follow.

This is not the FINAL final schedule — dates and times will be moved and swapped around based on cup conflicts and TV coverage, so don’t tattoo this on your arm just yet. But it’s enough that we can make some conclusions about Spurs’s schedule.
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