English Premier League '16-'17 Discussion

The fixtures for next season came out this morning. The opening day looks like this:



And the first five games for the teams that matter...

Leicester:
Hull (A)
Arsenal (H)
Swansea (H)
Liverpool (A)
Burnley (H)

Arsenal:
Liverpool (H)
Leicester (A)
Watford (A)
Southampton (H)
Hull (A)

Spurs:
Everton (A)
Palace (H)
Liverpool (H)
Stoke (A)
Sunderland (H)

Man City:
Sunderland (H)
Stoke (A)
West Ham (H)
Man Utd (A)
Bournemouth (H)

Man Utd:
Bournemouth (A)
Southampton (H)
Hull (A)
Man City (H)
Watford (A)

Liverpool:
Arsenal (A)
Burnley (H)
Spurs (A)
Leicester (H)
Chelsea (A)

Chelsea:
West Ham (H)
Watford (A)
Burnley (H)
Swansea (A)
Liverpool (H)

Liverpool by far have the toughest start, while Mourinho and Guardiola have some gentle games to get settled in.

requesting to add Bilic and Koeman to the subtitle

Where is Sir Alan?

Liverpool somehow will always have the toughest start.

As far as ours ago, I personally wanted a bit trickier start. Same thing happened with the fixtures 2 seasons back when Van Gaal came in. A bunch of easy ones and he bottled almost all of it, cos of the new team, new league and things.
With Mou well, at least there wont be a 'new league' problem but the new team one still remains.
Hope it wont be like the last time.

Also the great Manc derby is in September itself.  Dont even have time for a proper buildup ffs.

futbol wrote:Where is Sir Alan?

When you win 1 once in 20 something games you don't deserve to be recognised imo

futbol wrote:Where is Sir Alan?

Really, really tempted to gamble ultra-high and start a Sir Alan vs Claudio LOLieri Scoreline thread



what do you think

lmao every season they have to jam pack our first 5 games with as many top teams from the previous season as possible. Makes sense why we're usually out of the title race by September.

CBarca wrote:Nah you guys are usually out of the title race before September and the reason is you guys are shite, not the schedule

God damn

Hapless_Hans wrote:

futbol wrote:Where is Sir Alan?

Really, really tempted to gamble ultra-high and start a Sir Alan vs Claudio LOLieri Scoreline thread



what do you think

Sounds like a plan.

Speaking of Liverpool:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpool-takeover-state-backed-chinese-group-want-to-buy-club-from-fenway-for-700m-a7083836.html

How many clubs do China want to buy?

futbol wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:

futbol wrote:Where is Sir Alan?

Really, really tempted to gamble ultra-high and start a Sir Alan vs Claudio LOLieri Scoreline thread



what do you think

Sounds like a plan.

Sounds like a terrible plan though

But it is a plan. And that's what really counts.

Cannot wait for the Manchester derby ffs

tbh I'm happy we have a hard start. it get most of the hardest away games out the way early. I know none of the games are easy but if you look at the games we have in the last 2 months of the season then its not to bad.

April

1 – Everton (H)
5 – Bournemouth (H)
8 – Stoke City (A)
15 – West Bromwich Albion (A)
22 – Crystal Palace (H)
29 – Watford (A)

May

6 – Southampton (H)
13 – West Ham United (A)
21 – Middlesbrough (H)

CBarca wrote:Nah you guys are usually out of the title race before September and the reason is you guys are shite, not the schedule

Jesus, I feel absolutely etherd, CB. wtf man.

CB is mean sometimes

CBarca wrote:I mean if it makes you feel any better, I would say the same thing about Spurs

It would make him feel better.

so please say it again, about Spurs.

Leicester vs Hull the first live game of the season - 12:30 on Sky Sports.

First Super Sunday is Bournemouth vs Man Utd and Arsenal vs Liverpool.

Chelsea vs West Ham is the first Monday Night game.

Man Utd vs Southampton will be the first Friday night game on the 19th of August.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jul/07/premier-league-tv-fixture-changes-manchester-united-friday-game?CMP=share_btn_tw

Leicester vs Hull. The PL back in style

Actions speak louder than words, with that in mind.

Spoiler:

LOOOOOOOOOOLLL Spit out my drink.

Watford forcing him to memorize all that garbage. Just