1st PL game. It's going to be Arsenal at home, isn't it .

[Notters]

Don't Man Utd always get a promoted team at home to start off?

They haven't played a newly promoted team home or away in the first fixture in the last six seasons. I can't be bothered to look further back than that!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I remember the day of the last first top-tier match very well, the Arsenal game. I was at Wembley stadium for a gig - The Who, AC/DC, the Stranglers and Nils Lofgren. Hugh Cornwall announced at the beginning of the Stranglers set that the score was 4-0, and I laughed cos I didn't believe him !

 

[Rowdey]

West Ham at home

This. always seemed to be West Ham away at a sunny Upton Park as the opening fixture, so if we get our special request its going to be them at home (1-1 draw as usual). For my Man Utd dullard friends I've gone for Bournemouth or Hudds away.

Reckon this too - WH have to play their first three fixtures away due to athletics being on.

 

[sully]

I'm just hoping that if the first game is at home that it's either a "lesser" team or gets moved to a different day for TV.
I've been booked to photograph a wedding on 12th!

 

[LU7 RED]

We had Villa at home when we got promoted..

You'll have anyone bar the top 6 at home I reckon. Us, WBA, Watford, West Ham, Leicester etc etc.... Nice and boring to get you settled in...

 

[Marshy]

We had Villa at home when we got promoted..

You'll have anyone bar the top 6 at home I reckon. Us, WBA, Watford, West Ham, Leicester etc etc.... Nice and boring to get you settled in...

Boring for you maybe, certanly not for me

 

[LU7 RED]

Boring for you maybe, certanly not for me

I missed the Villa match. Their only away win of the season LOL.

Seriously though - these first games tend to be a 'let down' opposition wise. Its bound to be existing PL side at home who finished outside top 7.

 

[SAC]

I have no idea.

Or isn't this how it works?

 

[osgood]

Spurs H

 

[Razzoo]

do we get a prize for guessing the correct opening fixture ?

S'ton away
B'mouth home

I have a hunch it'll be Saints away

 

[Megazone]

It's going to be Huddersfield away, then Newcastle at home, followed by Bournemouth away.

Can't wait. Bring on the Prem!

 

[SeagullinExile]

Deffo Stoke at home...I can feel it in my piss.

 

[Magic Sponge]

Southampton at home?

 

[perseus]

Watford at home would be a good one, I think. It will mean a Saturday 3 o'clock KO.

Wembley in the spring sunshine, last of the regular season.
Looking for Newcastle near the end of the season as we run neck and neck again.

 

[wigman]

Bournemouth at home.

 

[Dougie]

I'm confused , why are you requesting a home game first off ?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I'm confused , why are you requesting a home game first off ?

To rule out the possibility of all the excitement of a first PL fixture, ending up being the crushing anti-climax of a trip to your 19th Century hovel.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Why would we ask to have the same fixture that we lost 4-0 in the first time we went to the top league

Exactly. The irony is we bossed that game until they scored and then found ourselves 0-3 down at half-time. ☹

 

[The Birdman]

Just think it is written in the stars, that's all [/QUOTE
Revenge

 

[throbinson]

Not sure if thats tongue in cheek, but the first MNF Sky do this season will certainly NOT be what is on paper one of the dullest fixtures in the entire calendar. They'll want to kick off with more of a bang than that.

I'd be happy with a home game and something that definitely keeps us at 3pm on the Saturday. Swansea or West Brom, something like that.

Tongue in cheek