Fixtures 2017/18 - Out today

Opening day fixtures:

Arsenal v Leicester City
Brighton and Hove Albion v Manchester City
Chelsea v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town
Everton v Stoke City
Manchester United v West Ham United
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton v Swansea City
Watford v Liverpool
West Bromwich Albion v Bournemouth

Final day fixtures:

Burnley v Bournemouth
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion
Huddersfield Town v Arsenal
Liverpool v Brighton and Hove Albion
Manchester United v Watford
Newcastle United v Chelsea
Southampton v Manchester City
Swansea City v Stoke City
Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City
West Ham United v Everton

 

Newcastle away.....draw

Chelsea at home(Wembley) week after...i just dont know how we are going to react to playing there

 

Quite a few tricky back to back fixtures but no single month or period that stands out as unusually tough. Seems to be a nice balance throughout of 'hard' and 'easy' games.

Our last 4 games are relatively easy and likely to be against teams with little to play for (Watford, Brighton, WBA and Leicester).

 

I can guess how we'll react if Twatkinson's assigned the ref...

 

Haha away at Newcastle! Well done to those who called it.

 

Talks are already underway to move the Burnley home game due to the RL Challenge Cup final @Wembley.

 

With Chelsea being our second game, we need to have our business done early this year and have a settled squad so we can hit the ground running. We've dropped too many points early on in recent seasons. Gotta give ourselves the best chance of a strong start.

 

Just saw a pig fly past my office window

 

Haway?

 

Finally a home game on Boxing day

 

Interestingly, they'll be substantially changed from the season just ended. Hazard will still be out injured and Costa should be gone. Possible moves suggested for Matic, Fabregas and Williian.

Could be a decent time to play them if we make a faster start than in the last 2 seasons. This time out we cured any late season burn out but were too far behind by December.

 

Yay...Sissoko qill really be up for it

 

What the **** is the point of having someone plan these fixtures if they can't be bothered to check something like that? Hope we can just swap our Burnley home and away fixtures so we don't get a pile up.

Shame we couldn't start at home for once now we're done at WHL for the time being. Also, Chelsea are going to have played more games at Wembley this season when we play them

Pleased we're at home on Boxing Day. Wembley should be quite easy for me to get to, getting to WHL with hardly any transport is always a pain in the arse for me.

 

So what were they doing when they were compiling this fixture list, then?
Did they just ask Sky what they wanted, then a few of their favourite teams and then tell everyone else to **** off?
Utterly amateurish.

I'm sick of this crap every year, to be honest. I shouldn't be able to predict our opening game. It's a 2.6% chance, I think.
Poor old Huddersfield end the season with Chelsea (A), Everton (H), City (A) and Arsenal (H), so they could be very screwed.
If they're already down though, then a bunch of the top sides get a free run.

 

Unlikely straight swap for Burnley as that would give us 3 home games in a row over Christmas .

Would be nice though .

 

If (and it is a big if) we can hit the ground running then facing the Chavs that soon is good. They will have a few key new faces to settle in and I dont see us fundamentally being that different from the side that finished the season so strongly!
If it was at WHL I'd be delighetd, but the 'Wembley' factor is just such an unknown quantity.

However....... if by any chance we are there or there abouts at the business end of the season I don't think we could have asked for a better run in.

COYS!!!!!

 

When do tickets go on sale for the Chelsea game?

I'm on annual leave and should be staying close to London so thats a game I could attend.

 

That fixture list is RDBD approved.
With some real WUM mayhem potential at the Ginger tiddler and Deirdre
with the Chelsky fixture.

 

Has any of the Sky favourite four ever played each other on the first day of the season?