Liverpool 2012/13 Fixture List

 The 2012/2013 fixtures are out and we begin with a trip to West Brom in what will see Brendan Rodgers and Steve Clarke both take charge of their new clubs for the first time. Our home results last season weren’t good and that is the main area we need to improve on, and with that in mind we’ve been given Man City, Arsenal and Man Utd in our first three home games. They aren’t ideal fixtures in which to impose your own new playing style but over the season you play everyone twice so these games have to be played sometime, why not early? I think there is a danger if we win all three of these games expectation levels will go through the roof, the same way if we lose them all then we will be touted for a bottom half finish. It’s a matter of seeing through the sensationalised media coverage and looking at the performances themselves to look for signs of improvement and areas that still need to be looked at.

 I’m pretty sure that we’ll be on TV a lot early on in Rodger’s reign, something that Roy Hodgson wasn’t keen on, once saying that opposition didn’t need to send scouts to watch us as we were on TV twice a week anyway. That sort of spotlight is something our new manager will need to get to grips with and I think he will have the chance to do that almost from the beginning of his time at Anfield. I think he’s strong enough to handle it well and I haven’t felt this positive going into a season for a while. We have a young manager, a young squad, a Europa League place and the owners have cleared all outstanding debts from the previous custodians tenure so we’re essentially beginning the 2012/2013 season with a clean slate financially, a playing squad and a coaching staff all perfectly suited to growing together and European football to look forward to after a season without.

 The Liverpool fixture list for 2012/13 in full is:

August
18^th – West Brom (A)
25^th – Man City (H)

September
1^st – Arsenal (H)
15^th – Sunderland (A)
22^nd – Man Utd (H)
29^th – Norwich (A)

October
6^th – Stoke (H)
20^th – Reading (H)
27^th – Everton (A)

November
3^rd – Newcastle (H)
10^th – Chelsea (A)
17^th – Wigan (H)
24^th – Swansea (A)
27^th – Tottenham (A)

December
1^st – Southampton (H)
8^th – West Ham (A)
15^th – Aston Villa (H)
22^nd – Fulham (H)
26^th – Stoke (A)
29^th – QPR (A)

January
1^st – Sunderland (H)
12^th – Man Utd (A)
19^th – Norwich (H)
29^th – Arsenal (A)

February
2^nd – Man City (A)
9^th – West Brom (H)
23^rd – Swansea (H)

March
2^nd – Wigan (A)
9^th – Tottenham (H)
16^th – Southampton (A)
30^th – Aston Villa (A)

April
6^th – West Ham (H)
13^th – Reading (A)
20^th – Chelsea (H)
27^th – Newcastle (A)

May
4^th – Everton (H)
12^th – Fulham (A)
19^th – QPR (H)