Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

[Snake Plissken]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Liverpool vs Burnley officially switched around. Other change blatantly stolen from the Guardian.

New fixture changes (times BST unless stated)
Saturday 13 August
12.30pm Hull City v Leicester City (Sky Sports)
5.30pm Manchester City v Sunderland (BT Sport)

Sunday 14 August
1.30pm Bournemouth v Manchester United (Sky Sports)
4pm Arsenal v Liverpool (Sky Sports)

Monday 15 August
8pm Chelsea v West Ham United (Sky Sports)

Friday 19 August
8pm Manchester United v Southampton (Sky Sports)

Saturday 20 August
12.30pm Stoke City v Manchester City (Sky Sports)
3pm Burnley v Liverpool (Was scheduled for 11 March 2017 but the matches between Liverpool and Burnley have been reversed following an agreement between the two clubs. Liverpool v Burnley will take place on Sunday 12 March 2017.)
5.30pm Leicester City v Arsenal (BT Sport)

Sunday 21 August
1.30pm Sunderland v Middlesbrough (Sky Sports)
4pm West Ham United v Bournemouth (Sky Sports)

Saturday 27 August
12.30pm Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
5.30pm Hull City v Manchester United (BT Sport)

Sunday 28 August
1.30pm West Bromwich Albion v Middlesbrough (Sky Sports)
4pm Manchester City v West Ham United (Sky Sports)

Saturday 10 September
12.30pm Manchester United v Manchester City (Sky Sports)
5.30pm Liverpool v Leicester City (BT Sport)

Sunday 11 September
4pm Swansea City v Chelsea (Sky Sports)

Monday 12 September
8pm Sunderland v Everton (Sky Sports)

Friday 16 September
8pm Chelsea v Liverpool (Sky Sports)

Saturday 17 September
5.30pm Everton v Middlesbrough (BT Sport)

Sunday 18 September
12pm Watford v Manchester United (BT Sport)
2.15pm Crystal Palace v Stoke City (Sky Sports)
2.15pm Southampton v Swansea City (Southampton’s participation in the Europa League the preceding Thursday)
4.30pm Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland (Sky Sports)

Saturday 24 September
12.30pm Manchester United v Leicester City (Sky Sports)
5.30pm Arsenal v Chelsea (BT Sport)

Sunday 25 September
4pm West Ham United v Southampton (Sky Sports)

Monday 26 September
8pm Burnley v Watford (Sky Sports)

Further fixture changes
Manchester United and Southampton are guaranteed participation in the group stages of the Europa League on Thursdays, so their Premier League fixtures planned for Saturdays in October, November and December are subject to change.

Saturday 1 October
Leicester City v Southampton
Manchester United v Stoke City

Saturday 22 October
Chelsea v Manchester United
Manchester City v Southampton

Saturday 5 November
Hull City v Southampton
Swansea City v Manchester United

Saturday 26 November
Manchester United v West Ham United
Southampton v Everton

Other new dates
Sunday 11 December - times TBC
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton v Middlesbrough

Wednesday 14 December
7.45pm GMT Middlesbrough v Liverpool (Due to Middlesbrough v Southampton moving to 11 December)
8pm GMT Crystal Palace v Manchester United (Due to Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur moving to 11 December)

Wednesday 1 February
8pm GMT Manchester United v Hull City

Sunday 12 March
4pm GMT Liverpool v Burnley (Confirmation of fixture reversal)

Sunday 16 April
4pm GMT West Bromwich Albion v Liverpool (Club agreement)

[Janik]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Borracho wrote: But the fixtures are fixed to some degree. The existence of Super Sunday alone proves this.

Super Sundays could happen by chance given the large amount of constraints on fixture list, so I feel that stretches 'prove' beyond its limit.
But I don't believe the Premier League, when confronted, has ever denied the accusation. They deflect instead. So Super Sundays are strong evidence that there is a certain amount of fixing going on.

[Borracho]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

When it comes to whingeing, David Moyes is a veritable Jehovah's Witness compared to most of the people who work in his sphere.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

It wasn't just that that made people think The Moyesiah was a whinging dickhead, TBF.

[Borracho]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

David Moyes objected when the fixture computer dealt him a fairly bad hand for his first five games of 2013-14. For this, he was derided as a whinging dickhead.

But the fixtures are fixed to some degree. The existence of Super Sunday alone proves this.

[Janik]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

N est à? wrote: Looks like we're playing home and away fixtures against the other clubs in the division in a randomly generated order again.

Not exactly. If the fixture list was random then somewhere, sometime there would be a club handed a long sequence of home games, or away ones. And there wouldn't generally be roughly half-season gaps between the first meeting of two sides and the return. The fixture list is a highly structured item, with only the slightest dash of randomness mixed in.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK.

[N est à?]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Looks like we're playing home and away fixtures against the other clubs in the division in a randomly generated order again.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Dortmund? Easy. Just score more than them.

Otherwise, getting the excuses in early is top work. I approve.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

It's a bit early and possibly the wrong thread to post up one frustration I've had with commentators in the Euros, but I've heard a couple of pundits filling time musing on how Leicester will fare if they draw Barcelona or Bayern Munich in the CL group stages.

They won't. As English champions, they'll be seeded top. As will Barca, and Bayern. And Juve. And Real as champions. Leicester might get Atletico Madrid, though. Or Dortmund.

[Janik]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Heh, all of Leicester's post-Champions League matches are at home. And most of them against what would be assumed to be mid-table sides*, at best.

Sep 17: Burnley (h)
Oct 1: Southampton (h)
Oct 22: Crystal Palace (h)
Nov 5: West Brom (h)
Nov 26: Middlesbrough (h)
Dec 10: Manchester City (h)

This bending over backwards to fix things in favour of Big Blue Clubs is become too much!

* - assuming where sides will finish based on reputation in a post that references what happened to Leicester last season obviously shows I've learned nothing. And am proud of it.

[Kevin S]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Snake Plissken wrote: Some talk of switching Liverpools opening home game against Burnley to Turf Moor due to the unfinished construction at Anfield.

Ooh, don't like that sort of thing. Back in 2004-05 Norwich were due to pay fellow promotees Palace at Selhurst, but it was agreed to switch to Carrow Rd. It felt like it added so much pressure that we needed to win it after the switch. Andrew Johnson getting them the draw felt like a massive blow right at the start of the season.

[Snake Plissken]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Some talk of switching Liverpools opening home game against Burnley to Turf Moor due to the unfinished construction at Anfield.

[longeared]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

Hull's first four home fixtures are Leicester, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea. Grrrrrr, just as I was starting to get over Wembley and all.

[hobbes]

Another easy start for Klopp - PL fixtures

I can't remember the last time we had a home game to start with.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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