Wed. 18th June - Premiership fixtures announced

[kawkav]

One tough away game in April

yep, Crystal Palace always tough away

 

[kawkav]

When do Sky change all the fixtures?

Whenever they feel like it.

Some might say they already have changed it, because that's about as random as 1 2 3 4 5 6.

in the first half of the season there is one game of top 7 head to head each week. only four weeks have 2 games.

Saturday 23 August 2014
15:00 Everton v Arsenal
15:00 Man City v Liverpool
Saturday 30 August 2014
15:00 Everton v Chelsea
15:00 Spurs v Liverpool
Saturday 13 September 2014
15:00 Arsenal v Man City
Saturday 20 September 2014
15:00 Man City v Chelsea
Saturday 27 September 2014
15:00 Arsenal v Spurs
15:00 Liverpool v Everton
Saturday 4 October 2014
15:00 Chelsea v Arsenal
15:00 Man Utd v Everton
Saturday 18 October 2014
15:00 Man City v Spurs
Saturday 25 October 2014
15:00 Man Utd v Chelsea
Saturday 1 November 2014
15:00 Man City v Man Utd
Saturday 8 November 2014
15:00 Liverpool v Chelsea
Saturday 22 November 2014
15:00 Arsenal v Man Utd
Saturday 29 November 2014
15:00 Spurs v Everton
Wednesday 3 December 2014
19:45 Chelsea v Spurs
Saturday 6 December 2014
15:00 Man City v Everton
Saturday 13 December 2014
15:00 Man Utd v Liverpool
Saturday 20 December 2014
15:00 Liverpool v Arsenal
Sunday 28 December 2014
15:00 Spurs v Man Utd

So they might be right

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Haha City ruining SuperSunday.

 

[Blue Coop]

Again we play 5/6 of the top 7 at home first, it would have been nice to get a few aways in there - ideally we need to make it count this time and be top going into January (providing we can get the away form going a bit quicker this time).

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Re the tv picks...how far do they go with the first picks??is it december?
Also do bt or sky get first dibs??

 

[Dubai Blue]

Ridiculously hard start. Does anyone really believe that these fixtures 'randomly' come out of the fixture computer? It's all about momentum and there's a good chance that after the first five games we are already chasing. Corresponding fixtures last season got us 10 points out of 15. However, Chelsea are already a stronger, arsenal will be and so will Liverpool. Hope is that they won't have completed all their signings before transfer deadline. If we can come away with something similar then whilst we would be behind that would set us up nicely.

Conversely, we slip up in those big games and the boo boys will be out in force, throwing their toys out of the pram and looking for blood. Whilst it wouldn't end up in an OT scenario my fear is that we will be off the pace for the rest of the season whilst our rivals build on a strong start.

If we had the rags fixtures we would be looking at 24 out of 24 in the first 8 games, meaning the rags could be full of confidence going into the games against Chelsea and us.

I feel the complete opposite. We made a right mess of our 'easy' opening fixtures last season because we weren't switched on right from the start. These fixtures mean the players know they will have to hit the ground running and I'm always confident of City in the 'big' games. Get off to a good start and it will be us opening up a gap on our rivals later on in the season once everything starts evening out a bit. January's a tough one, but we couldn't have asked for kinder final 3 months of the season. I'd much rather get as many games against our title rivals out of the way as early as possible than have to face them at crucial times in the season once they're all up to speed. January aside, this is a great fixture list.

 

[mancity dan]

Ridiculously hard start. Does anyone really believe that these fixtures 'randomly' come out of the fixture computer? It's all about momentum and there's a good chance that after the first five games we are already chasing. Corresponding fixtures last season got us 10 points out of 15. However, Chelsea are already a stronger, arsenal will be and so will Liverpool. Hope is that they won't have completed all their signings before transfer deadline. If we can come away with something similar then whilst we would be behind that would set us up nicely.

Conversely, we slip up in those big games and the boo boys will be out in force, throwing their toys out of the pram and looking for blood. Whilst it wouldn't end up in an OT scenario my fear is that we will be off the pace for the rest of the season whilst our rivals build on a strong start.

If we had the rags fixtures we would be looking at 24 out of 24 in the first 8 games, meaning the rags could be full of confidence going into the games against Chelsea and us.

I feel the complete opposite. We made a right mess of our 'easy' opening fixtures last season because we weren't switched on right from the start. These fixtures mean the players know they will have to hit the ground running and I'm always confident of City in the 'big' games. Get off to a good start and it will be us opening up a gap on our rivals later on in the season once everything starts evening out a bit. January's a tough one, but we couldn't have asked for kinder final 3 months of the season. I'd much rather get as many games against our title rivals out of the way as early as possible than have to face them at crucial times in the season once they're all up to speed. January aside, this is a great fixture list.

Totally agree with you Dubai Blue.

 

[Blue Elvis]

Again we play 5/6 of the top 7 at home first, it would have been nice to get a few aways in there - ideally we need to make it count this time and be top going into January (providing we can get the away form going a bit quicker this time).

Obviously our away form against sides in the bottom half of the table was our Achilles heel last season. Fix that and we should be able to retain our title next year.
CTID

 

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

Ridiculously hard start. Does anyone really believe that these fixtures 'randomly' come out of the fixture computer? It's all about momentum and there's a good chance that after the first five games we are already chasing. Corresponding fixtures last season got us 10 points out of 15. However, Chelsea are already a stronger, arsenal will be and so will Liverpool. Hope is that they won't have completed all their signings before transfer deadline. If we can come away with something similar then whilst we would be behind that would set us up nicely.

Conversely, we slip up in those big games and the boo boys will be out in force, throwing their toys out of the pram and looking for blood. Whilst it wouldn't end up in an OT scenario my fear is that we will be off the pace for the rest of the season whilst our rivals build on a strong start.

If we had the rags fixtures we would be looking at 24 out of 24 in the first 8 games, meaning the rags could be full of confidence going into the games against Chelsea and us.

We were 8th after 11 games last season and won the title. Early-season results don't really mean that much until you actually win the thing. The fixtures weren't designed to work against Manchester City Football Club. Had we been given an easy start but a difficult run-in like United have been then you'd probably be blaming the FA for that as well, saying that they're trying to stop us winning the title by making us drop points at the end of the season, such is the nature of your post.

We started last season with Newcastle (H), Cardiff (A), Hull (H), Stoke (A), United (H), Aston Villa (A) which looks considerably more comfortable than this year's games, yet we only managed to get 10 points. It's not about the order of the fixtures or who we play on what day, it's about turning up on that day. If we'd started last season with Newcastle (H), Everton (A), Liverpool (H), Tottenham (A), United (H) you'd be accusing "them" of trying to ruin our "early season momentum". We won all 5 of those games last season because we turned up when it mattered: on the day.

I'm relishing this start. We can win all of those games.

 

[cibaman]

I see our annual 1-0 defeat at Sunderland is being played on a Wed night in December. Someone must have decided that return journey needs to be made even more miserable