Monday, 12 December 2011 Chelsea v Man City, 20:00 Saturday, 17 December 2011 Wigan v Chelsea, 17:30 ============================== Thursday, 22 December 2011 Tottenham v Chelsea, 20:00 Monday, 26 December 2011 Chelsea v Fulham, 13:00 ============================== Saturday, 31 December 2011 Chelsea v Aston Villa, 15:00 Monday, 2 January 2012 Wolverhampton v Chelsea, 15:00 =============================== So between now and January the longest amount of rest we will have between PL games is 5 days. Remember last season when we had to play on Monday nights 4 times (more than any other team) and all of them were away from home. I am not one for conspiracies but it seems to me we always seem to get this kind of "bad luck" with the fixtures around Christmas. It seems preposterous that after tomorrow, United will have a full 8 days gap till their next game and then of course when everyone else gets 2/3 days rest, they get 4. It is so painfully obvious the fixtures are orchestrated in a way which helps certain clubs, primarily United.
To be fair DL I think most PL sides will have this kind of schedule! They should be fit enogh to see it off, squad wise, though! It only adds up to 9 hours of hard work in 31 days which isnt unreasonable for their pay checks!
