United take on Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle at home on the opening day of the season and finish with newly promoted Hull City away.
September could prove to be a very important month for our title defence. We face Liverpool at Anfield then travel to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea the following weekend.
October gives us a bit of a break, following a difficult month, with Everton the most trying of the opposition. November sees us travel to both the Emirates to play Arsenal and Wastelands for derby day.
Whilst packed with league fixtures, December is a relatively easy month, with Spurs proving to be the toughest side we’ll play.
A tough start to the new year is on the cards, taking on Chelsea at home in our first game of January. There are no alarm bells ringing for February and April, but March sees us host the dippers.
The final month of the season brings about fixtures I’d rather us have played earlier. We take on City, who will need no extra motivation than the chance of denying us a title win to show up, then Arsenal the following week. The only saving grace here is that both games will be played at home.
We can consider ourselves lucky to a certain extent, as Arsenal, who are likely to be title rivals, take on Chelsea the week before travelling to Old Trafford. Chelsea’s toughest time comes when they play both us and Liverpool in January .
The most obvious observation from these fixtures is that our difficult games more or less all fall in the first half of the season, with the easier fixtures coming later on. Could this see us chasing the title again?
I think we’ve been screwed early on – point you have missed on out in this article is that we play away after every single Champions league group match. Our first 9 away games are against the top 9 teams too.
Tough start but oh well wel just crack on it with it. I’ve heard numerous scousers whinge and bitch and use the fixture list as an excuse for there failings so im not going to follow suit and moan like them. Bring it on, cant wait. Good to be at home first day of the season.
Well, as far as season openings go I think it will be a positive thing that we will have a few tough fixtures early on.
Last years opening games didn’t go very well did they? I think this will put fire in the belly of every United player, it will leave no room for complacency and as we are traditionally strong and consistant after Christmas, the home fixtures against the title challengers in 2009 can also only be positive.
Either way, these fixtures have got to be fixed. Rupert Murdoch has got that kind of power.
Let’s hope we sort out Ronaldo and if need be get rid, get a replacement (in a wing player, CoughDavidBentleyCough) and get everyone focussed.
One BIG BIG positive is that we play AWAY against ALL of our difficult opponents (eg. Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton, Blackburn, Man City, Portsmouth, Aston Villa, Tottenham) during the first half of the season when the team is likely to be fresh and full of energy. During the more demanding second half of the season we play ALL of these teams at HOME, which gives us a substantial advantage in the title run-in. We’re already favourites for the title and the way the fixtures have fallen makes our situation even better!
Oh yea without doubt the fixture list is fixed. I bet they were tempted to do another grand slam Sunday but they thought doing it a 3rd year in a row would cast too much suspicion. Last year was ridiculous grand slam Sunday nicely falling at Christmas and the Easter weekend. They insist its random tho……….is it fuck!
l september seems to be the toughest month followed by march imo….if we get a good start then i can see us lift title again
ADVANTAGE united! if u ask me, utd play the tougher fixtures earlier the away tough ones, n i expect utd to scrape through some n win some in style and towards the fag end of the season utd to get to play the tougher fixtures at home, i’ll surprised if utd are not running for the title come may n i expect chelsea to be the ones challenging fo the title along with the dippers for a change, i know it sounds wierd, thts my sixth sense …lol!
all our games afet the champions league group games are away
There is also the small matter of UEFA Super Cup & FIFA Club World Cup.
There will be plenty of games in hand due to our inter-continental participation, so its a matter of taking one game at a time. WE MIGHT HAVE TO PLAY 70 GAMES.
i hear we have to play everyone home AND away this year! who cares when the fixtures are. we will win regardless of who we have to play and when!
we shudnt fear anyone, they should fear us, we are kings of europe and england, fock em all!!! especially fat focka phil scolari!!!
eric the king……TRUE TRUE TRUE.SPOT ON!!!!