The Premier League fixtures are out, and that means millions of fans up and down the country are doing exactly the same thing right now — squinting at a spreadsheet, working out when the derby is, and quietly panicking about a run of five away games in six weeks somewhere around February.
Every club has their full schedule in front of them now, and the early reaction is always the same mix of excitement and dread depending on how the opening few games have fallen. Get a kind start and the fans are buzzing about momentum and confidence. Get a horror show of fixtures in August and suddenly the manager is already under pressure before the season has even found its rhythm.
What always makes fixture release day genuinely fun is how differently supporters interpret the same schedule. One fanbase looks at a game against a top six side in October and sees a trap. Another looks at the same fixture and sees a chance to make a statement. Everyone is convinced their run-in is either brutal or generous, and usually neither is as extreme as it looks in June.
From a Manchester United perspective — and yes, the bias is declared upfront — the hope is always for a decent start to build some early confidence, because this squad has had a habit of making easy games look complicated. But in fairness, every club has those games that look winnable on paper and somehow end up being anything but.
The reality is that no fixture list tells the whole story. Injuries, suspensions, bad weather, a goalkeeper having a nightmare — football has a wonderful way of making the schedule completely irrelevant by matchday. The team that looks set for a smooth autumn can be in a crisis by Halloween, and the side with the brutal opening run can string three wins together and suddenly everything looks different.
Head over to BBC Sport to check your club's full schedule and start the very serious business of working out exactly where the points are coming from this season.
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