So we start with Everton at home. Glad to be at home 1st up. October 1st - Goons come to WHL February 25th - We go to the New Library.
Opening weekend - Saturday 13 August Blackburn v Wolves Fulham v Aston Villa Liverpool v Sunderland Man City v Swansea Newcastle v Arsenal QPR v Bolton Stoke v Chelsea Tottenham v Everton West Brom v Man Utd Wigan v Norwich Saturday 20 August Arsenal v Liverpool Aston Villa v Blackburn Bolton v Man City Chelsea v West Brom Everton v QPR Man Utd v Tottenham Norwich v Stoke Sunderland v Newcastle Swansea v Wigan Wolves v Fulham Saturday 27 August Aston Villa v Wolves Blackburn v Everton Chelsea v Norwich Liverpool v Bolton Man Utd v Arsenal Newcastle v Fulham Swansea v Sunderland Tottenham v Man City West Brom v Stoke Wigan v QPR
Good to get the ManUplc away game out the way early The Gns have it tough as well - Toon (a), 'Pool (h) & ManUplc (a) So Cit£h v Swansea 12:45 ko on Sky maybe? Followed by us on ESPN? Lovely stuff
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/fixtures/default.stm That is the best list I have found so far, no news of fixtures on the club website which doesn't surprise me.
We have a lovely run-in To break it down a bit more: Saturday, 16 July 2011 Friendly Match Kaizer Chiefs v Tottenham, 15:00 Tuesday, 19 July 2011 Friendly Match Orlando Pirates v Tottenham, 20:15 Saturday, 30 July 2011 Friendly Match Brighton v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 13 August 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Everton, 15:00 Saturday, 20 August 2011 Barclays Premier League Man Utd v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 27 August 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Man City, 15:00 Saturday, 10 September 2011 Barclays Premier League Wolverhampton v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 17 September 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Liverpool, 15:00 Saturday, 24 September 2011 Barclays Premier League Wigan v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 1 October 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Arsenal, 15:00 Saturday, 15 October 2011 Barclays Premier League Newcastle v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 22 October 2011 Barclays Premier League Blackburn v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 29 October 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v QPR, 15:00 Saturday, 5 November 2011 Barclays Premier League Fulham v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 19 November 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Aston Villa, 15:00 Saturday, 26 November 2011 Barclays Premier League West Brom v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 3 December 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Bolton, 15:00 Saturday, 10 December 2011 Barclays Premier League Stoke v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 17 December 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Sunderland, 15:00 Tuesday, 20 December 2011 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Chelsea, 19:45 Monday, 26 December 2011 Barclays Premier League Norwich v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 31 December 2011 Barclays Premier League Swansea v Tottenham, 15:00 Monday, 2 January 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v West Brom, 15:00 Saturday, 14 January 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Wolverhampton, 15:00 Saturday, 21 January 2012 Barclays Premier League Man City v Tottenham, 15:00 Tuesday, 31 January 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Wigan, 19:45 Saturday, 4 February 2012 Barclays Premier League Liverpool v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 11 February 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Newcastle, 15:00 Saturday, 25 February 2012 Barclays Premier League Arsenal v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 3 March 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Man Utd, 15:00 Saturday, 10 March 2012 Barclays Premier League Everton v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 17 March 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Stoke, 15:00 Saturday, 24 March 2012 Barclays Premier League Chelsea v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 31 March 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Swansea, 15:00 Saturday, 7 April 2012 Barclays Premier League Sunderland v Tottenham, 15:00 Monday, 9 April 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Norwich, 15:00 Saturday, 14 April 2012 Barclays Premier League Bolton v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 21 April 2012 Barclays Premier League QPR v Tottenham, 15:00 Saturday, 28 April 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Blackburn, 15:00 Saturday, 5 May 2012 Barclays Premier League Aston Villa v Tottenham, 15:00 Sunday, 13 May 2012 Barclays Premier League Tottenham v Fulham, 15:00
Getting the hard games out first aint that bad. Oct will be a big month. Tottenham on the 1st then at the end of the month we go to chelski. im hoping for a miracle to be in the same position this time next year. depends who each team brings in. Not worried about the two english player brought by united and the pool , still see who citeh and chavski get eh
God I hope not, only one pub in area has ESPN and I've never seen Spurs win when I've gone there :-( HOpe that we get switched for first Super Sunday of the season on Sky - which I'm gonna guess is going to be Toon v L'Arse + A.N.OTHER
Four interesting matches on the opening day. Us and Everton,Pool and Sunderland, Stoke and Chelsea and WBA and Man U. WBA finished quite well last season and did well v Utd,it will be a very interesting result if Utd lose. Stoke have beaten Chelsea a few times and will make life difficult for them in the opening match,it's far from easy for Chelsea that one. Sunderland have a good record at Anfield and that's interesting too. Now as for the most important team and that's us,Everton eh? Think about it.Everton under Moyes normally start badly and we normally do well against them at home. Their win a couple of seasons ago was their first since Maggie Thatcher was PM. Now if we win as normal we will have a good season especially if we thrash them. If we draw then an average season beckons and if we unthinkably lose at home to our traditional patsies then I'm gloomy. I know this might sound a bit premature but I think a good season will be had by Spurs. The other matches are nondescript and don't merit a mention imo. Sorry I missed one and that 's Newcastle and Arsenal. From 0-4 to 4-4 last season and sometimes Newcastle beat the gooners well it could also be interesting to gauge both teams on the result.
3 cleansheets, are you mad?! 5 of last season's top 7 in our first 7 games, I've got to admit I'm worried about how tough our start is. I'm happy to play City early as they're going to have made a lot of changes to their team and Wigan away is good to get out of the way before the pitch turns into marshlands over the winter. There's not really any game in particular that I'm really not happy about but the combination of them all is worrying, we only got 8 points off those fixtures last season.
A little annoyed with the two Arsenal dates, got holiday booked off for both of those dates but a week to early, so will have to try and change those to make sure I'm off. I like the fixture list to be honest, a nice run in at the end, and considering the fact that we don't play any of the top 6 in the last 8 games of the season, the games against the top 6 do seem well spread out over the course of the season. When you think that is essentially ten games in thirty. We only have Utd-City and Arse-Utd back to back, it could have been worse. Opening day is a big one though, need to get off and running as we don't want to be playing catch up after only one or two games. I know its still early but the damage can still be done.
I don't think the order is irrelevant. In theory we play each team twice, but in reality the team we play the second time is not going to be the same as the first. We play the squads twice and the team in name twice but thats all. Injuries, transfers, form, previous games and forthcoming games can make a team change how they play. If you have a few tough games back to back this can affect confidence and morale, fitness, increased risk of injuries and suspensions as the players dig a bit deeper. If you have a run of a few 'top 6' games back to back you could very well easily end up dropping several points and whilst the other teams have easier fixtures you could suffer in points, and whilst you can catch back up when they play harder games you still have to actually claw it all back. The fixture pile ups (xmas) you want easier games because of the close nature of the fixtures a small injury may keep someone out for a few days which you don't have, so you hope for these periods to be easier. If you had to play Man Utd - Chelsea - Arsenal - Liverpool back to back and struggled in the first two games, how much confidence would they have to go into the next? Wouldn't you see the advantage of having an 'easier' game to break that up. Its all relative and subjective, but I like the look of the fixtures, it seems nicely spread with a good run in.
