I genuinely don't think it matters who we play and when. The team is capable of smashing anyone off the park.Pep - will need to lift them and get them totally up for it - that first 10 games is make or break for the season
maybe it's time we just grew up as a club and just won them?
spot on.So do you REALLY think it’s coincidence that the dippers get their 4 toughest home games when there’s more likely to be crowds in? At least I predicted it would happen, so as conspiracy theories go that must have been a fucking coincidence too. As is the VAR decisions the dippers got in the first half of last season. As is the continuing VAR decisions that go against us in Europe. All fucking coincidences and conspiracy theories, and the football authorities are completely devoid of corruption. I suppose you think Platini and Platter were innocent, and the media are fair and balanced too
Will that Villa game not just move to the 15th? Still first game?
So do you REALLY think it’s coincidence that the dippers get their 4 toughest home games when there’s more likely to be crowds in?
Win em all and it’s happy daysSo four of our first six games are away from home, who'd have thunk it?
And then just for good measure, tack Liverpool at home on to the end of it?
Not even trying to hide it.
Good run-in though.
It turns out winning 8 games in a row vs. the best teams in the country over 28 days is a lot harder than having them spread out.
West Ham have been well and truly fucked. How about this for an opening 7 games?
Newcastle
City
Liverpool
Arsenal
Tottenham
Wolves
Leicester
They're going to be in the relegation zone after that.
villa play in round 2 of carabro cup,so can't play vs city.Will that Villa game not just move to the 15th? Still first game?
Utter bollocks. The one thing they would have wanted if they could have picked the fixtures themselves is their 4 toughest home games of the season in the second half, and vice versa. And lo and behold it happens. Just a coincidence though. You say I’ve searched it and cherry picked - it’s actually the first thing I looked at, and there it is. Go back to your fantasy world, the one where football is clean and pure, and the football authorities and the media love City and liverpool the same. And while you are there please say hi to lord lucan who will be riding fucking shergar through never never landI’ve cut out the rest because it’s completely irrelevant to this thread. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, it’s just an almost statistical certainty they would get games that can be considered to be at a favourable time just like every other clubs set of fixtures. Unless you got a City fan to write their fixtures personally there was always going to be something to jump on if you search enough and ignore everything that doesn’t suit.
For every team they’ve got at home second, they’ve got somebody else away. Their last 5 away games they’ve got Burnley, West Brom, United, Leeds and arsenal, assuming fans are back in by then, you couldn’t really hand pick a worse set of fixtures to play away to with a crowd backing them. It’s incredibly easy to cherry pick a few fixtures and claim it as proof of some mass conspiracy that simply isn’t there as you’ve clearly chosen to do.
And just to add, the next game after the dippers is spurs awaySo four of our first six games are away from home, who'd have thunk it?
And then just for good measure, tack Liverpool at home on to the end of it?
Not even trying to hide it.
Good run-in though.
Not sure but some time after dippers and rags approve themOnly disappointing things are livarpool getting their home game vs us later so more chance of a crowd, and that we get Leeds away early on, so no chance to go to Elland Road.
I do like our last 2 months of fixtures though.
Edit - what date do sky release their first batch of games?
So four of our first six games are away from home, who'd have thunk it?
You made a good point in the first paragraph ninja that had crossed my mind. It would be very interesting if say, 10 City supporters compiled a realistic favourable and unfavourable fixture list for us and then compared them. I don't think they would be similar tbh.I’ve cut out the rest because it’s completely irrelevant to this thread. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, it’s just an almost statistical certainty they would get games that can be considered to be at a favourable time just like every other clubs set of fixtures. Unless you got a City fan to write their fixtures personally there was always going to be something to jump on if you search enough and ignore everything that doesn’t suit.
For every team they’ve got at home second, they’ve got somebody else away. Their last 5 away games they’ve got Burnley, West Brom, United, Leeds and arsenal, assuming fans are back in by then, you couldn’t really hand pick a worse set of fixtures to play away to with a crowd backing them. It’s incredibly easy to cherry pick a few fixtures and claim it as proof of some mass conspiracy that simply isn’t there as you’ve clearly chosen to do.