Opening Day Predictions - Stoke City (a)

[DeKuip]

Prem League won't finish until Sunday 24 May next season (same weekend as play-off finals) with FA Cup final on Sat 30 May and Champs League final in Berlin on 6 June.

[Toronto Villa]

Yanited are slow starters so bring it on

Except that now they are crap it might be the other way round, they started pretty well last season.

Judging by the way we started last season, we shouldn't care who we play ;-)

I wonder if things would have been different had we got the three points from Chelsea second game rather than the zero we did get, whether we might have got some real momentum from that, some proper confidence.

I doubt it. We had a home game after Chelsea

[Gregorys Boy]

Just for the hell of it mu mind up Fixtures

Arsenal VS. Leicester (early game)
Villa VS. Newcastle (the match we always should win but never seem to )
Burnley VS. Everton (now this would be a cracker!)
Liverpool VS. Sunderland
Man Utd VS. Spurs (late game)
QPR VS. Man City (sunday game) (the battle of the annoying rich clubs)
Southampton VS. Chelsea (Monday night game if such thing still exists)
Crystal Palace VS. Hull
Stoke VS. Swansea
West Brom VS. West Ham

Beat that people!

[enigma]

At home to Man Utd on the first day? Maybe, but there is a chance this is fake so take with a pinch of salt.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/leaked-villa-host-man-united-on-opening-day-chelsea-face-everton-liverpool-play-arsenal-its-spurs-v-leicester/

[ADVILLAFAN]

Full 'made up' list for opening day

Villa v Manure
Burnley v Newcastle
Chelsea v Everton
Hull v wet spam
Liverpool v arsenal
Citeh v Southampton
Spuds v Leicester
Stoke v QPR
Sunderland v Palace
Swansea v Smethwick

No doubting which is the "glamour" tie.

I think Hull v West Ham would be worse.

[Gregorys Boy]

At home to Man Utd on the first day? Maybe, but there is a chance this is fake so take with a pinch of salt.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/leaked-villa-host-man-united-on-opening-day-chelsea-face-everton-liverpool-play-arsenal-its-spurs-v-leicester/

Linker would be spraying his shorts over the Foxes-Spurs opener and begging than it headline MOTD!

I would take Utd at home first game, it would pull a big crowd and should get the players right up for the season.  Also if we get a kicking at least that is one out the way early.

I call bullshit on this list because very rarely do they feature two of the top teams against each other on the opening weekend (think the last time was Chelsea-Utd about ten years ago), and also you normally get one of the big boys against a newly promoted side.

[Phil from the upper holte]

My mates just sent me the same pic, I'd be happy, they always start slow and it gets it out of the way

[Simon Ward]

It'll be QPR away!

[Toronto Villa]

playing any of the contenders early is much better than facing them once they hit their stride.

[Pete3206]

At home to Man Utd on the first day? Maybe, but there is a chance this is fake so take with a pinch of salt.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/leaked-villa-host-man-united-on-opening-day-chelsea-face-everton-liverpool-play-arsenal-its-spurs-v-leicester/

The 15th August is a Friday

[Gregorys Boy]

Opps!  Well to be fair you wouldn't put it past these damn cable channels to move the fixtures to a friday night

[ADVILLAFAN]

12 minutes to go - hope we don't get any newly promoted sides early on.

[manic-road]

Can't be as hard as last seasons opening fixtures surely.

[JD]

Away to Stoke.

[JD]

Then Newcastle at home, Hull at home and Liverpool away.