No matter how hard they concoct the schedule it inevitably backfires on them as by the end of December I am hoping they will get egg on their face.
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You mean who the 2nd best teams are?
Sometimes you know it in April 
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Social media- âLiverpool given 38 games against teams who finished below them last year. Corruption at its finestâ
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They need to change their names to A Arsenal and theyll be top
Not having a go at you personally but simplifying the fixture list to this notion really gets on my nerves - and a lot of people do it. There are so many different things to factor in - is some game against a title rival scheduled directly after a midweek trip to the likes of Real Madrid or Galatasaray, which players will miss the Christmas schedule because of AFCON, which players will have to be benched after an international break because they flew halfway across the world, will a storm cause a trip to Goodison to be postponed, so that we get to field our strongest team instead of having seven players out in the original fixture etc. Iâll take every bit of help we can get.
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Yeah and there is a lot more than going âhere are how teams played last year, expect it exactly like next yearâ and wail and moan about how unfair it all is.
Itâs a fixture computer and itâs generated some fixtures.
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I used to work with the guy that did the fixtures. There are seemingly a huge number of permutations, but once all the rules relating to schedule and policing are applied, it rather narrows down the scope.
By far the bigger issue is the congested calendar which is out of every teamâs control.
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Yup.
I am glad they are sticking the first two international breaks together from next season I think. Cuts down some travel and allows the season to get started.
Was 4 games last season but only 3 again this, which doesnât make a tonne of sense.
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Not really a PL post but donât think worthy of its on thread (maybe a pre-match at the right time).
Sunday August 10 in a 3pm BST
Guehi to score the winnerâŚbut for whomâŚ
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No indication to international broadcasters yet.
In other news
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If DAZN would go bust as well it would really reduce my football watching expenses.
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Last summer City were fined 2m for repeated failure to kick off on time, especially in the second half. This summer they were charged again for the same thing and the league determined that despite them now being serial offenders who learned nothing from last yearâs punishment that their fine this year would be only half
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Sky advert for 215 approx. games for25/26 seasonâŚprevious seasons whe the shitty have won..their faces are plastered everywhereâŚforgive me for being biased but why arenât more LFC players shown⌠I understand we are ChampionsâŚbut it really peeves meâŚ
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A deal has been announced by Palace for Textor to sell his shares to fellow American Woody Johnson, the owner of the NY Jets in the NFL. This should be enough for Palace to avoid being kicked out of the Europa League.
The downside is that Johnson is regarded, even among the status of dysfunctional and embarrassing NFL owners, as the worst owner in the league. He was the massively out of place US Ambassador to the UK during Trumpâs term, your stereotypical boorish American at fancy events. And is a self-confessed Chelsea fan who tried to buy them when Romanâs assets were frozen.
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As if someone who is buddies with a man whoâs name means fart and with both a forename and surname being synonyms for make genitalia would turn out to be a bit of a (insert your derogatory term of choice here). Frankly Iâm shocked 
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Keith Andrews in line to be appointed Brentford manager after Thomas Frankâs departure - BBC Sport
Brentford set-piece coach Keith Andrews is frontrunner for the vacant managerâs job at Gtech Community Stadium.
BBC Sport understands the club are not putting a timescale on the appointment, and discussions are progressing well.
That seems like a very risky move, didnât strike me as the brightest button back when he was a regular pundit on Sky.
They are the announcement kings tbfđ
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