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City Victory Clogs The Fixture List

13 March 2011 633 comments
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By virtue of their 1-0 victory over Brian McDermott’s Reading this evening, Man City have provided the first real body blow to the fixture list following on from this weekend’s FA Cup action.

Roberto Mancini’s side now have a date with bitter rivals Manchester United at Wembley on the weekend of gameweek 33 (April 16/17) which means that their current fixture at home to Tottenham on said weekend is set to fall by the wayside for at least a week…

Fellow qualifiers Bolton, Manchester United and Stoke will also suffer the same fate and see their weekend fixture (vs Fulham, Newcastle and Wolves respectively) knocked off the calendar. In their situation there is a very strong case -but we cannot take it as read until official confirmation comes in- for their postponed matches to take place in the same gameweek and alongside the already scheduled midweek games of Chelsea vs Birmingham and Arsenal vs Tottenham, as has happened in previous seasons.

It is that aforementioned North London derby that also means Manchester City clearly cannot rearrange their game with Spurs for the same time. This means that Mancini’s men will now have a blank fixture in gameweek 33 and Redknapp’s double-header has now been pegged back to just a single game at home to Arsenal.

Rough planners can pencil in gameweek 36 (the only free midweek left this season without any European commitments) as a likely time for the fixture to now take place but, again, must be aware this is our educated guess and when we get official word on a date we will share it post haste.

Season Tickers will be updated shortly to represent this change to the schedule.

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  1. matiakez
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    14 years, 9 months ago

    Who the frig are you meant to take Djourou out for 🙁

    My team is a complete ruin 🙁

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    1. jamsiep
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      14 years, 9 months ago

      Walker? Bramble? Dawson? Luiz?

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    2. tosey
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 9 months ago

      depends who your other defenders are, just go for someone that rotates well with the rest

      jamsiep's 4 that r listed are all ones im looking at

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      1. matiakez
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        14 years, 9 months ago

        I'm looking at major hits this week i think, was planning Kolorov out for Luiz already..

        Dawson looks a good call

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  2. Demí
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 9 months ago

    CRICKET

    Can't believe what i've just done.
    I waited for the toss and then brought in Brendan taylor the zimbabwe opener. And now i find out that the covers are coming on. So annoyed

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    1. Boom!!!
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      14 years, 9 months ago

      the match is starting after 10 mins...

      p.s. i missed the deadline 😥

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      1. Demí
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 9 months ago

        if it's starting in 10 mins then why can't you still change your team.

        The deadline is before the first ball is bowled i think.

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        1. Boom!!!
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 9 months ago

          no deadline is scheduled start time of a match so i missed it 🙁

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  3. mastertokalosh
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    14 years, 9 months ago

    can some one point me in the right direction for the member paddy power cup latest results cant seem to find it anywhere.

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  4. TomRovers
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    14 years, 9 months ago

    I've got quite a lot of dead wood due to injuries, thinking of taking an eight point hit so I can do the following before price rises.

    Djourou > Luiz
    Nani > Lampard
    Silva > Adam

    Is Luiz worth it? Chelsea haven't been great defensively.
    Would anyone recommend anyone instead of Adam? Hitzlsperger?

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    1. In Like Flynn.
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      • 15 Years
      14 years, 9 months ago

      All three look good to me,not sure how much help this is after an hour though. 🙂

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  5. rrcmc
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 9 months ago

    hi mate - is Silva injured then? or just dead wood?

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    1. TomRovers
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 9 months ago

      Poor fixtures and a probable blank in GW33, and Chelsea's fixtures are great.

      Although I just read Nani could even play on Tuesday! I would like to keep him but Fat Frank is calling.

      http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/03/13/2392981/manchester-united-winger-nani-set-for-return-against

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      1. rrcmc
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        • 16 Years
        14 years, 9 months ago

        i saw that as well - think ill hang on to him
        you're right, silva isnt worth it
        need to shoe horn fat frank in, i sense a strong end to the season for chelsea now that it is all or nothing in the league

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        1. rrcmc
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          • 16 Years
          14 years, 9 months ago

          yeah, you gotta question how a footballer deep gash can keep him out for 3 weeks.
          for a start a 'deep gash' in footballer terms means a slight scratch which drew blood!

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          1. TomRovers
            • 14 Years
            14 years, 9 months ago

            The phrase "deep gash" made me laugh far more than it should! Yeah I've suffered in the past by not having lamps, and the double in GW33 is worth getting him alone.

            I'm now tempted by:

            Rafael > Walker
            Silva > Lampard.

            Villa have great fixtures but a terrible defence, here's hoping he attacks a lot.

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          2. Brian C. Lara
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            14 years, 9 months ago

            if only all footballers were john Rambo like you!!!

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  6. tosey
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    14 years, 9 months ago

    opinions needed. if i do gutierrez to albrighton ill have

    begovic
    shawcross/huth/coleman
    lampard/nani/albrighton/adam
    bent/rooney/torres

    foster/johnson/carr/barton

    given theres another 2 weeks until the next gameweek after this one would you

    a) do the transfer of gutierrez to albrighton this week

    or

    b) save the transfer and play one of my brum defenders who are away to wigan so i have 2 freebies next week?

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    1. jamsiep
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      14 years, 9 months ago

      Save the transfer at play RJ.

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    2. TomRovers
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 9 months ago

      B is the sensible option but I would probably do a, you don't get much beter fixtures than at home to Wolves.

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      1. tosey
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 9 months ago

        cheers lads. really unsure on this one, can see albrighton potentially getting 6-10 pts on sat but he could quite easily do nothing

        having 2 freebies at this stage of teh season would be good

        one to think over i guess

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  7. Johnny Unitas
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    14 years, 9 months ago

    Neuer Post

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  8. OzGoonah
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    14 years, 9 months ago

    Hey guys please rmwct!

    foster/mignolet
    coleman/luiz/oshea/bardsley/simpson(newcatle)
    nani/ferguson/lmps/cesc/adam
    rvp/tevez/welbeck

    thx!

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