Are we playing Chelsea twice in the first half of the season?

[USA SaintsFan]

Looking at the fixture list, it certainly seems like we are. Has this ever happened?

[Avenue_Saint]

2 days apart from Palace game

 

Should deffo be swapped around

[VectisSaint]

Looking at the fixture list, it certainly seems like we are. Has this ever happened?

Chelsea specifically, probably, teams in general absolutely. You know there were times when teams used to be played as double headers, home one weekend, away the next.

[Lets B Avenue]

When we got promoted in 1966, you played the same team in the first two midweek games. In our case it was Sunderland away then at home 7 days later.

[SW5 SAINT]

I think it quite often happens that we play the same team twice in the first half of a season. Particularly when festive season fixtures have to be arranged......

[Whitey Grandad]

I think it quite often happens that we play the same team twice in the first half of a season. Particularly when festive season fixtures have to be arranged......

 

They try to arrange ‘local’ derbies over this period. That doesn’t explain why Saints were drawn away at Newcastle on New Years Day though.

[adrian lord]

Yes we often get Chelsea or Tottenham at Christmas due to relative proximity.

 

 

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[SaintBobby]

How are the festive fixtures actually drawn/decided? Are we in some bracket with all the London clubs for the 2 or 3 games over the Xmas period? What are the other brackets?

[USA SaintsFan]

Chelsea specifically, probably, teams in general absolutely. You know there were times when teams used to be played as double headers, home one weekend, away the next.

 

Interesting. Guess I haven't been around long enough to witness that.

[ecuk268]

Chelsea specifically, probably, teams in general absolutely. You know there were times when teams used to be played as double headers, home one weekend, away the next.

 

In the 50's it was the same team home and away on Christmas day and then Boxing day.

[Noodles34]

I understand that we should have played CP at him neon Boxing Day and then Chelsea away this Saturday. However thenLondon fixtures on Saturday were too congested and therefore that’s is why they were swapped.

[Noodles34]

Do you only get an edit option as a full meme bet now?

 

CP at home

[Noodles34]

FFS

 

full member

 

****ing hate IPads

[Whitey Grandad]

I understand that we should have played CP at him neon Boxing Day and then Chelsea away this Saturday. However thenLondon fixtures on Saturday were too congested and therefore that’s is why they were swapped.

 

Makes sense but I’ll take the results so far.

[mrfahaji]

Interesting. Guess I haven't been around long enough to witness that.

 

Although generally you tend to play different teams before having repeated match ups, I don't believe there's any strict rule about it. You would also think that the fixtures would be evenly spaced out, so that the team you play first is also the first team that you play twice, but the fixtures have never worked that way (even though you do generally find that you wouldn't play the same team in August and in April). There is often some overlap around this time of year where you might play teams a second time before you have played another team at all.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

The question should be; can we play them every week?

[mrfahaji]

Probably a stranger thing with this season's fixtures is that our return fixture against Crystal Palace is 21 January. Surely it must be quite unusual to play the same team twice within a month?