Start of a New Season, Fixture List Check.

Fixture List Check

Start of a new season and where better to start than a review of the fixture list.
Which team has the best fixture start to the season? Who has the worst set of Fixtures to start the season?
Here is my view on the Teams with the best and worst set of fixtures for the first 6 games.

Simply United have by far the best fixtures, looking at there defense I wouldn't be surprised if there is one or two signings before the season start as they look a bit short of numbers, either way Louis Van Gaal couldn't have picked an easier set of fixtures to start the season.

Stoke, Sunderland and WBA are mixed bag, and whilst I'm not expected great things from any of them this year, it's worth noting that lady luck has been kind to them for the start of the year.

Chelsea are my personal favorites this year, other than the away games at Everton & City, there should be plenty of points picked up in the first few games, I'm expecting big points from Jose's men in the first two weeks.

Could it possibly be any harder for Leicester? Stoke and Palace away are not easy places to pick up points, whilst Albrighton & Moore look like snips at £4.5m & £4m, if they haven't picked up a win prior to GW7 the clash with fellow promotion rivals Burnley could turn out to be make or break game early in the season. It could prove to be a very hard season for the Foxes and those players who look like bargains could actually prove to be bad stock.

Man City's Fixture don't fill me with Joy, but I don't doubt there will still be plenty of points picked up by the City players over the first 6 games. Newcastle at the Etihad was the reverse fixture of last year's opening day game. 4-0 will be in the back of every Magpie fan's mind, I'm sure Shearer will mention it on MoD, anyone want to place a wager?

Life after Suarez Liverpool, are to set to visit Southampton on the opening day, the team they have literally pillaged in the off-season with Lallana, Lambert & Lovren swapping team for the opening day. I wouldn't be surprised to see one more player feeling like there on the wrong team on the opening day, with Schneiderlin and Rodriguez rumours on nearly every football website out there today. How will they cope without Suarez, well they will need to learn quickly, there are question marks over the squad, will they be good enough to make the champions league this year now they have to fight on European fronts too.

Villa and Everton will need to make the most of their supposed easier games, both having to entertain 3 of the Top 4 Champions Leagues side in the first 6 games. Villa's first 6 games are notably the same as Man Citys first 6, wonder who will do the better of the two teams?

Here's how I've come up with the scores for now, I will be updating this over the season, and building in improved logic for Home and Away Games. I've probably rated Newcastle a little too highly but there will be time to re-Analyse closer to the start of the season, when squads are a little more settled.

Team	Ranking
Man City	6.4
Chelsea	6.4
Arsenal	6.1
Liverpool	6
Man Utd	6
Everton	5.1
Tottenham	5
Newcastle	4.1
West Ham	4
Stoke City	4
Crystal Palace	4
WBA	3
Aston Villa	3
Southampton	3
Swansea City	2
Hull City	2
Sunderland	2
Leicester City	1
QPR	1
Burnley	1