I’ll Hint The Championship F*xtures Your Way

Don’t men­tion the F word!

You may have been on EPL talk this morn­ing and read The Gaffer’s blog, which tells you that 2010 is the year that f*xture lists have become a com­mod­ity. It seems that now the Bun­desliga has taken over the Pre­mier­ship as the rich­est league in the word, they’re claw­ing onto any money they can, and no doubt there will be a few inde­pen­dent blog­gers caught out. To be fair though, I was about to list the open­ing day f*xtures on this web­site until I caught The Gaffer’s arti­cle via Twit­ter, I went onto an unof­fi­cial New­cas­tle United web­site to see when we’ll play Sun­der­land next sea­son and I did won­der why they put a copy­right at the bot­tom of the fix­tures. In any case, I find fix­ture day one of the most over-hyped days in Eng­lish foot­ball. It’s nice to see who you’ll play first and when your derby games are, but it’s hardly novel that you’ll be play­ing every team twice across the sea­son. If you’re one of these odd peo­ple Sky have caught at 9am to talk about their excite­ment regard­ing their team’s f*xtures, then you’ll prob­a­bly know every game off heart and will not see this blog because you’ll be too busy in a dark room study­ing the list. I still think I can do the open­ing day, so instead of “f*xtures”, I’m going to use the term “open­ing day bat­tles”. See if you can get who your team is “bat­tling” on the open­ing day:

1. It looks like those boys will be dri­ving their trac­tors down up to the River­side t0 take on the Scotsman’s boys.

2. The cap­i­tal of Wales hosts the cap­i­tal of steel!

3. There will be swans float­ing around the Hum­ber bridge, but the tigers will be on the prowl.

4. The clarets look set to lay down the law when they find the for­est around them.

5. Delia Smith wel­comes Elton John for a feast of football.

6. The rams go march­ing on together in a united Yorkshire.

7. For the first time in his­tory a robin will be favourite to beat a lion.

8. The irons can expect a royal wel­come when they travel down south.

9. The north end is being invaded by vikings!

10. Law instill­ing mon­archs look to fend off some feisty tykes.

11. A clear place for roy­alty has a fox problem.

12. The sky will be blue, but a darker shade will look to play up to the occasion.

Remem­ber — I am in no way sug­gest­ing that this has any­thing to do with the Cham­pi­onship or the F word. These are bat­tles, that will all occur on the 7th August and pos­si­bly the 6th, 8th and 9th depend­ing on tele­vi­sion. In any case, there’s a World Cup on!

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