A worrying start to David Moyes' reign at Manchester United :
Laurence Griffiths
The new Premier League fixture list has been
released, and David Moyes is off to a very tough start as Manchester
United manager.
Manchester United will face trips to Liverpool and Manchester City, as well as hosting Chelsea, in their opening five fixtures of the 2013/14 Premier League season.
Combined with a potentially
difficult away trip to Swansea on the opening day of the season, David
Moyes will have a tough start to his new job as United boss and will be
thrown right in at the deep end.
I don't want to use the phrase
'if he lasts that long', so I shall simply say "the silver lining is",
that the run-in is a pretty straightforward affair - Southampton
away on the last day of the season looks a bit of a tricky one, and
it'll be interesting to see if the game I always personally look for - Everton
- proves to be the usual massive stumbling block to our title
campaigns that it has been of late, since that's towards the end too.
Otherwise, save for hosting
Liverpool at Old Trafford with a few games to go, there's not much to
report about the finale. I'm not too pessimistic about our chances of
doing well at the start, but I am slightly concerned about how we'd
fare against your mid-table meat and potatoes fixtures should we have a
nightmare and drop points in three or four of that opening lot.
In order to balance out that
doomsaying, I will leave you with the thought that were these last
season's fixtures, we'd have been able to lift the league title with a
victory over Liverpool at Old Trafford.
Fixtures announced : Moyes must hit the ground running :
Mike Hewitt
Is it a challenge or a nightmare? Either way, the David Moyes Era will be off to a bang this August.
17 Aug - Swansea City Away
24 Aug - Chelsea Home
31 Aug - Liverpool Away
14 Sep - Crystal Palace Home
Possible UCL Midweek
21 Sep - Manchester City Away
This is not the start you wanted for Manchester United.
Facing your two biggest rivals and the old enemy, with a champion's
league qualifying game before one of those matches. While starting the
season under the spotlights at Wembley.
There's one line of thought
that says you've got to meet every team twice and the order doesn't
really matter. But with a new team, and with competition sniffing around
once the Great Man isn't at the dugout anymore, things couldn't have
gone much worse for the Red Devils. I'm sure we all wanted to ease Moyes
into the job, but with high-voltage fixtures like these, maintaining
objectivity is going to be a tough task.
In many ways, this makes our
transfer window that much more important. It is absolutely essential to
get world-class or thereabouts players and to get them early to
integrate them into the squad. July can't come fast enough for David Moyes, just as August can't come slow enough after today.
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