Arsenal's Fixtures, Our Relatively Easy and Difficult Fixtures are Highlighted

Finally Gooners have something different to talk about. Rather than just transfer rumours we can now analyse how having difficult fixtures and easier fixtures at certain times of the year will help us to do well or hinder us in our chase for glory. 

The fixtures were released today and as expected there are patches of easier games and sometimes a run of more difficult games. Our relatively easiest run of games is from Christmas and is against 7 of the teams that didn't finish in the top 8 last year.Our most difficult periods is March and the first week of April. Our top 5 opponents are in red, last season's 6th-15th placed finishers are in black and Newcastle, Sunderland and the 3 promoted teams are in green. Home matches are in bold If you would like to know how the the fixtures are compiled, you can look here. Arsenal's Premier League fixtures in full:

AUGUST
Sat 17	H	Aston Villa
Sat 24	A	Fulham
Sat 31	H	Tottenham Hotspur
SEPTEMBER
Sat 14	A	Sunderland
Sat 21	H	Stoke City
Sat 28	A	Swansea City
OCTOBER
Sat 5	A	West Bromwich Albion
Sat 19	H	Norwich City
Sat 26	A	Crystal Palace
NOVEMBER
Sat 2	H	Liverpool
Sat 9	A	Manchester United
Sat 23	H	Southampton
Sat 30	A	Cardiff City
DECEMBER
Tue 3	H	Hull City
Sat 7	H	Everton
Sat 14	A	Manchester City
Sat 21	H	Chelsea
Thu 26	A	West Ham United
Sat 28	A	Newcastle United
JANUARY
Wed 1	H	Cardiff City
Sat 11	A	Aston Villa
Sat 18	H	Fulham
Tue 28	A	Southampton
FEBRUARY
Sat 1	H	Crystal Palace
Sat 8	A	Liverpool
Tue 11	H	Manchester United
Sat 22	H	Sunderland
MARCH
Sat 1	A	Stoke City
Sat 8	H	Swansea City (or FA Cup Q/F)
Sat 15	A	Tottenham Hotspur
Sat 22	A	Chelsea
Sat 29	H	Manchester City
APRIL
Sat 5	A	Everton
Sat 12	H	West Ham United (or FA Cup S/F)
Sat 19	A	Hull City
Sat 26	H	Newcastle United
MAY
Sat 3	H	West Bromwich Albion
Sun 11	A	Norwich City

I like our easyish final run of games. Hopefully we'll still be in other competitions at the same time.

Regards