Premier League fixtures 2017/2018 - Newcastle (A) then Chelsea (W)...

[Teemu]

I wonder who Arsenal will play at home on the opening day?

 

[bomberH]

We'll get one of the promoted teams away as our first game. Probably Brighton.

You heard it here first.

 

[sparx100]

Our company runs the software that generates the fixtures. What a job

 

[shelfmonkey]

Interesting choice of date...

In most years, the Glorious Twelfth is a term used to refer to 12 August, the start of the shooting season for red grouse. The shooting season always ends in December.

In 2017, the Glorious Twelfth will be a term used to refer to 12 August, the start of the spouting season for red scouse. The spouting season usually ends by mid-January.

Quality

 

[Lighty64]

Our company runs the software that generates the fixtures. What a job

Well no tough fixtures in August or September please then 1 or 2 of the top 5 other teams spread over the next 3 months but not either side of a CL game.

Can we please play Liverpool at scouce land in the 1st half of the season, and no back to back London derbies or as some seasons have gone 3 consecutive wetspam arscum, and Chelscum 1 after the other.

Last request no top 6 clubs in our final 8, with the same no back to back derbies.

If you can't make that happen, please find a new career

 

[wlhatwhl]

Well no tough fixtures in August or September please then 1 or 2 of the top 5 other teams spread over the next 3 months but not either side of a CL game.

Can we please play Liverpool at scouce land in the 1st half of the season, and no back to back London derbies or as some seasons have gone 3 consecutive wetspam arscum, and Chelscum 1 after the other.

Last request no top 6 clubs in our final 8, with the same no back to back derbies.

If you can't make that happen, please find a new career

And just one extra, we don't want a club with a new manager to impress on the opening day of the season.

 

[knowlespurs]

scum and chelscum home to someone shit
we are away to a mid table team

 

[sparx100]

Well no tough fixtures in August or September please then 1 or 2 of the top 5 other teams spread over the next 3 months but not either side of a CL game.

Can we please play Liverpool at scouce land in the 1st half of the season, and no back to back London derbies or as some seasons have gone 3 consecutive wetspam arscum, and Chelscum 1 after the other.

Last request no top 6 clubs in our final 8, with the same no back to back derbies.

If you can't make that happen, please find a new career

No problem..........

 

[14/04/91]

scum and chelscum home to someone shit
we are away to a mid table team

Someone like Arsenal?

 

[hughy]

Apparently season starts 12th August. Dunno if it's been mentioned...

 

[Ironskullll]

That's because it's not particularly random. There's a huge range of factors going in. Teams can't be scheduled to have more than 3 home or away games in any given set of five and can't be at home on the same weekend as another team. They try not to have teams travelling large distances midweek or on bank holidays. There's local factors that influence things - for instance they won't generally put a match in the same city as Conservative Party Conference at the same time because there's likely to be protests around that. Teams can then add in extra requests - last season for instance we asked to finish with an away game so that WHL could be knocked down a week earlier, whereas this time around the Trust is suggesting we'll ask to avoid home midweek games to minimise transport difficulties at Wembley. That extends to teams not even in the league too - Dagenham and Redbridge ask for West Ham to be away when they're at home because otherwise their attendance drops. The end result is that once all of this is factored in there are noticeable patterns across seasons even once you leave the computer to do the remaining 'random' bit.

I love replies like this, where someone goes to the trouble of a factual and well thought out response to this sort of tantalising question. Realising that fixture lists aren't entirely random and that there are likely to be sensible reasons is one thing, but it's great to have the added perspective this sort of response gives. Cheers!

 

[Colonel Dax]

We'll get one of the promoted teams away as our first game. Probably Brighton.

You heard it here first.

Newcastle away I reckon

 

[bomberH]

Newcastle away I reckon

Would be a good match. In 1993 our first game was away against Newcastle after they got promoted....

 

[Colonel Dax]

Would be a good match. In 1993 our first game was away against Newcastle after they got promoted....

I remember it well. Teddy

 

[bomberH]

I remember it well. Teddy

Our team that day......

 

[Shadydan]

Our team that day......

Only 3 subs named on the bench, fucking hell

 

[Lighty64]

Only 3 subs named on the bench, fucking hell

I'm not old enough, but I'm sure when we did the double, subs wasn't allowed.

when I started going it was only 1 sub, and on many occasions if the keeper was injured you had to use an outfield player I know Hoddle played once or twice as our keeper and I believe we actually won both games 1-0, and also think on both occasions we also had already used our 1 sub, meaning we finished with 10 men

 

[Marty]

Only 3 subs named on the bench, fucking hell

In England, the Premier League increased the number of players on the bench to five in 1996, and it was announced that the number available on the bench would be seven for the 2008–09 season.

 

[Tucker]

I reckon we will have a home game in the first match, and it will be against whoever wins the playoff. That way Sky can go on and on and on and on about Huddersfield/Reading Going straight back to Wembley to face Spurs.

If not that, it will be a smaller team at home, for pretty much the same reason.

 

[tooey]

Home to Everton. I feel it in my bones.