Premier League Fixtures 2013/14.

They'll be released tomorrow morning. 

Expecting my early optimism (due to our possible signings) to be killed in 3 seconds flat when I read what our first 5 fixtures are.

Expecting Liverpool to get screwed by the FA.

Chelsea (A)
Manchester United (H)
Arsenal (A)
Manchester City (H)
Tottenham (A)

Who says we get 15 points and stick it to the Ferguson Association? YNWA

We've had Arsenal within our first 3 games for the last 3 seasons. 

2012/13 - 3rd game
2011/12 - 2nd game
2010/11 - 1st game

Wonder if we'll have them for our 4th game this time round

I hope we have an easy set of fixtures over the Christmas period, I would rather have hard fixtures at the start of the season and easy fixtures over the congested Christmas period, than the other way round

Chip wrote:I hope we have an easy set of fixtures over the Christmas period, I would rather have hard fixtures at the start of the season and easy fixtures over the congested Christmas period, than the other way round

Agreed. I think that getting Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, City, and Manchester United away in our first five fixtures could actually favour us in the long run.

Moriarty wrote:

Chip wrote:I hope we have an easy set of fixtures over the Christmas period, I would rather have hard fixtures at the start of the season and easy fixtures over the congested Christmas period, than the other way round

Agreed.  I think that getting Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, City, and Manchester United away in our first five fixtures could actually favour us in the long run.  

Provided we have a good preseason for once it could be the best time for us to face the 'better' teams as they may not be as well prepared as we are!

Dagbon wrote:

It's fake.

Our first 5 games are .. 

Stoke (home)
Aston Villa (away)
Man United (home)
Swansea (away)
Southampton (home)

Man United have a difficult start.

Swansea (away)
Chelsea (home)
Liverpool (away)
Crystal Palace (home)
Man City (away)

Hopefully Moyes has a terrible start

Hope we can manage a win against swansea, need to start beating those teams.

26th December - Chelsea Away

28th December - Man City Away

oh hell no

Villa have the fucking hardest first month ever.

Arsenal away
Liverpool Home
Chelsea away

Fuck that.

Scott M wrote:

Stoke (home)
Aston Villa (away)
Man United (home)
Swansea (away)

4 winnable but difficult games. I like the look of our order.

Chip wrote:26th December - Chelsea Away

28th December - Man City Away

oh hell no

Mf, we can give our players a rest over the Christmas break and just accept two defeats.

Scott M wrote:Our first 5 games are .. 

Stoke (home)
Aston Villa (away)
Man United (home)
Swansea (away)
Southampton (home)

With Moyes's inferiority complex with Liverpool I'd expect you to pick up 12-15 from those 1st 5. That's very respectable, you could actually be top of the league after those 5 games.

Keyser Söze wrote:

Scott M wrote:Our first 5 games are .. 

Stoke (home)
Aston Villa (away)
Man United (home)
Swansea (away)
Southampton (home)

With Moyes's inferiority complex with Liverpool I'd expect you to pick up 12-15 from those 1st 5. That's very respectable, you could actually be top of the league after those 5 games.

Hope so. Arsenal's first 5 games are quite good on paper too, aren't they?

Scott M wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:

With Moyes's inferiority complex with Liverpool I'd expect you to pick up 12-15 from those 1st 5. That's very respectable, you could actually be top of the league after those 5 games.

Hope so. Arsenal's first 5 games are quite good on paper too, aren't they?

We'll have to see what our transfer activity is like. For Liverpool I've factored in that you'll sign the players you've been linked with since they seem like almost completed deals. With us its just speculation. If we sign the same calibre of players we have in recent seasons then I'd say we'll probably get 9-10 points with Fulham, Spurs and Sunderland being potential banana skins. You've had pretty slow/poor starts to the seasons the last couple of years regardless of who the opposition down to low moral because of losing key players during the summer. Hopefully that'll be different this season.

Keyser Söze wrote:

Scott M wrote:

Hope so. Arsenal's first 5 games are quite good on paper too, aren't they?

We'll have to see what our transfer activity is like. For Liverpool I've factored in that you'll sign the players you've been linked with since they seem like almost completed deals. With us its just speculation. If we sign the same calibre of players we have in recent seasons then I'd say we'll probably get 9-10 points with Fulham, Spurs and Sunderland being potential banana skins. You've had pretty slow/poor starts to the seasons the last couple of years regardless of who the opposition down to low moral because of losing key players during the summer. Hopefully that'll be different this season.

Hopefully?

Coming from an Arsenal fan?

Thought you'd want us to do badly.

Typo, instead of "You've " I meant "We've"

Freudian slip.