Premier League (and the broadcasters) are really taking the piss now with confirming fixtures. What they had put out as a "promise to fans" or "our commitment" or some marketing spiel like that at the start of the season was, that up to December, they'd announce games for each month 6 weeks in advance of the first game of that month, and from January onwards it'll be 5 weeks (before the first game of that month - but still that whole month would be announced by then) ... now they have started announcing JUST that first game of the month and then the rest of the month comes later ... much later ... much much later ... not everyone lives around Etihad and can just walk across at a short notice, people need to plan and book travel/hotels/leaves ... and the jokers deciding these things obviously are not affected by this so all this probably doesn't even cross their thoughts.