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Live Premier League Games 2012/13
loyalsince
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Fixtures out Monday morning at 9am. Usually a Thurs.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11662/7816059/Fixtures-Released
New thread for live game predictions?
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11662/7816059/Fixtures-Released
New thread for live game predictions?
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Yes, looking forward to it as have been following Reading for a few years and this is my first as a premiership season ticket holder.
I can quite confidently predict that Reading will be at home for their first game as they have to be away the following weekend as it's the Festival (unless there is a midweek game in between).
As you're on the subject, according to reports (but I can't find a link), no London club will be allowed to play at home on the weekend of 1st September, due to the Paralympics.
I don't think Reading is classed as a London club.
No it's not, so likely we will be at home.
I have this feeling that our first game will be an anti-climax, one of the other promoted teams or someone like west brom. We got stitched up last season with all our best away games being midweek.
Last season it was on Monday July 11th
Isn't this why the Prem League and Football League will start later, to avoid The Olympics?
Paralympics don't finish until the 9th, is that weekend an international weekend?
1 Sat 18 Aug
2 Sat 25th Aug
3 Sat 1 Sep
4 International Break
Chelsea cannot play 3 because they are in Monaco on Fri 31st
Is that definite? Is there not usually an early midweek round?
This year we have a difference as all Champions League teams are in the group stage as well as Spurs
so that leaves a maximum of two clubs
So no it is not definite
to avoid a fixture pileup as they also have got to go to Japan in December to play a meaningless FIFA event and miss more games then as well
The Games finish on the 12th
The Community Shield is on the 12th so I assume the PL will start on the 18th.
Remember also that there is no summer tournament so the PL can end a week or two later than it did this season so they might not feel the need to squeeze in an early midweek fixture.
The season has been announced as ending on Sun May 19th
Champions League Final at Wembley on Sat 25th
Yes I know Reading is not a London club. The "subject" I mentioned in my earlier post is having to play away from home due to a clash of events.
A load of fuss was made over nothing with regards to those fixtures being accounced.
The price of advanced cheap non refundable train tickets didn't change between the first complaints about how long it took for the fixtures to be accounced on this forum, and when they were actually accounced.
And yes I do know people have to book time off work and get match tickets etc.
Does that include the Football League (Championship, Leagues 1 and 2 as well?)
I think so too (but don't quote me!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2123019/London-2012-Olympics-Football-clubs-play-away.html#ixzz1qhaTumO2
The Metropolitan Police want football chiefs to ensure there will be no London fixtures during the Paralympics.
There is due to be a full Premier and Football League programme on September 1-2, a weekend that clashes with the international multi-sports event which follows the 2012 Olympics.
Every London club could face an away game that weekend, causing a major fixture and travel headache.
The Paralympics run from August 29 to September 9 and with police concentrating resources upon that event, they want the capital to be a football-free zone.
The same policing concerns mean London clubs are unlikely to be allowed to host pre-season friendlies during the Olympics, which run from July 27 to August 12.
Could be a bit of an issue. You can understand it for West Ham, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea etc, but surely the likes of Barnet, Wimbledon, Brentford would be ok, especially if they had "low risk" fixtures on that day?
I guess we'll find out when the fixtures get released tomorrow.
Yes, as a supporter of a Football League team myself, I'm happy for Mods to change the title of the thread to include live FL games
Unlike last year I think the first few FL games won't be announced, as Prem Lge starts at the same time
Yellow card for the first poster who puts the PL fixtures into the new 2013-16 packages
Chelsea won't be in action that weekend anyway (due to the Super Cup in Monaco as previously mentioned) and as for London clubs in the Football League, Charlton and Leyton Orient are in host boroughs where events are taking place.
Will London clubs in League's 1 and 2 playing on September 8th have to move those games too?
Over my teams relegation now, and looking forward to the football league championship. Also looking forward to the Premier League and what fixtures will be on TV, as although the increased coverage of football can often mean "oh its just another match" on Sky nowadays, the first double header on a Sunday on Sky is something I look forward to.
That was the case before but I don't think they've bothered for a couple of seasons now, seemingly it's more convenient to do the midweek round later in the season.
Didn't they basically decide that it was a disadvantage for the team who misses a gameweek so early in the season and for that reason they stopped the clash with the CL qualifying round. Of course this season that isn't an issue. We'll see.