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Are Arsenal ever to step foot outside of London? 7 of their 8 league games have been in London (5 at home) and if i'm not mistaken, aren't their next two games at the Emirates?

They've done excellently to win 7 of their 8 games, but they have had a little helping hand don't you think..?

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Yeah.

Thanks for the heads up. It's all fixed, that's why we're top.

Don't be an idiot pal.

Just because we play better football than you, sit top of the League ahead of you and outshine you on every other occasion despite paying much less money doesn't mean you need to moan about fixture sets.

We've also travelled to Prague (win), Bucharest (first English Club to ever win there). Just because we've not fkd anything up doesn't mean you need to go looking for excuses.

We've had some strong games. Fulham, Blackburn, Man City, Pompey, West Ham (our toughest fixtures last season) were not easy games - two of them being away games.

That's not to mention Newcastle in Carling Cup, Sevilla in UCL and those banana skins in Bucharest & Prague. Spurs away hasn't been the easiest fixture for us either, and I don't think the fixture makers knew that Spurs were going to hit awful form!

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You're a little moody. I wasn't having a go at Arsenal, if that's what you thought - and i'm not saying they're only doing how they are because they've had easy fixtures.

Liverpool have had a relatively easy start alongside Arsenal in comparison to Chelsea and United, with games like Sunderland, Derby, Birmingham and Wigan. You made the most of it where we couldn't.

But it is a genuine wondering, how does a team play 10 games and 7 at home? This is more a dig at the FA for organising the fixtures really..

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Your theory still doesn't really make much sense though.

We've played 5 away games this season out of 13 games - it's hardly a scandal by the FA. You can exclude the Carling Cup game as well, as it's not really effecting our team or League form as we played basically an entirely different XI to our First XI - besides, that was picked out of a pot. So 5 away games in 12 games in the Premiership & Champions League isn't too bad.

And our home games have been far from easy. Fulham and Man City are two well improved sides and their "weaker" sides from last season beat us. West Ham (away) and Spurs (away) are not easy fixtures on paper - do you think the FA selected those believing that they'd be any easier? We couldn't beat Spurs at WHL last season in two attempts whilst West Ham beat us at Upton Park and the Emirates last season.

At the end of the day, we'll have played the same amount of home & away games as everybody else at the end of the season when it most counts.

After Christmas is the most difficult period, and the fixtures are fairly balanced - most of those will be decided in draws as well, because there are plenty of Cup games. But then again you can't really consider the Carling Cup that much as it's not our First team and we might not even be in it.

From December to the end of January (8 weeks) we have 17 games scheduled and that's the Champions League "break".

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