Game week 1
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preseason fixtures
Here is the full pre-season schedule for all the top Premier League sides:
Arsenal
Chelsea
Date Match Venue July 28 vs AT&T All-Stars Avaya Stadium, San Jose July 31 vs Chivas de Guadalajara StubHub Center, LA Aug 5 vs Viking FK Viking Stadion, Stavanger Aug 7 vs Manchester City Ullevi stadium, Gothenburg
Leicester City
Date Match Venue July 16 vs Rapid Vienna Allianz Stadion, Vienna July 20 vs WAC RZ Pellets Worthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt July 27 vs Liverpool Rose Bowl, Pasadena July 30 vs Real Madrid Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor Aug 3 vs AC Milan US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis
Liverpool
Date Match Venue July 19 vs Oxford United Kassam Stadium, Oxford July 23 vs Celtic Celtic Park July 30 vs PSG StubHub Center, Carson, California Aug 3 vs Barcelona Friends Arena, Stockholm
Manchester City
Date Match Venue July 8 vs Tranmere Rovers Prenton Park July 13 vs Fleetwood Town Highbury Stadium July 17 vs Wigan Athletic DW Stadium July 20 vs Huddersfield Town John Smith's Stadium Aug 1 vs Roma Busch Stadium, St Louis July 27 vs Chelsea Rose Bowl, Pasadena July 30 vs AC Milan Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara Aug 6 vs Barcelona Wembley
Manchester United
Date Match Venue July 20 vs Bayern Munich Allianz Arena, Munich July 25 vs Manchester United Bird's Nest, Beijing July 28 vs Borussia Dortmund Shenzhen Aug 7 vs Arsenal Ullevi stadium, Gothenburg
Tottenham Hotspur
Date Match Venue July 22 vs Borussia Dortmund Shanghai Stadium July 25 vs Manchester City Bird's Nest, Beijing
Date Match Venue July 26 vs Juventus Melbourne Cricket Ground July 29 vs Atletico Madrid Melbourne Cricket Ground
Game week 1
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Premier League fixtures 2016/17 - click on your club
Arsenal fixtures
Bournemouth fixtures
Burnley fixtures
Chelsea fixtures
Crystal Palace fixtures
Everton fixtures
Hull fixtures
Leicester fixtures
Liverpool fixtures
Man City fixtures
Man Utd fixtures
Middlesbrough fixtures
Southampton fixtures
Stoke fixtures
Sunderland fixtures
Swansea fixtures
Tottenham fixtures
Watford fixtures
West Brom fixtures
West Ham fixtures
Opening day fixtures:
Arsenal v Liverpool
Bournemouth v Manchester United
Burnley v Swansea City
Chelsea v West Ham United
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion
Everton v Tottenham Hotspur
Hull City v Leicester City
Manchester City v Sunderland
Middlesbrough v Stoke City
Southampton v Watford
Final day fixtures:
Arsenal v Everton
Burnley v West Ham United
Chelsea v Sunderland
Hull City v Tottenham Hotspur
Leicester City v Bournemouth
Liverpool v Middlesbrough
Manchester United v Crystal Palace
Southampton v Stoke City
Swansea City v West Bromwich Albion
Watford v Manchester City
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What Brexit could mean for the Premier League
Over the past three decades, the league has seen an influx of talented European footballers who have become idols, cult heroes and emerging talents who have used the Premier League as proving ground before departing for warmer climes as confirmed superstars: Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luka Modric, to name but three.
From Anthony Martial and David de Gea at Manchester United to Kurt Zouma and Cesar Azpilucueta at Chelsea, the Premier League’s biggest spenders still build their teams around the cream of the continent’s talent pool. However, Brexit would jeopardise this supply line which would cause an inevitable drop in quality and possibly a loss of interest, according to a legal expert.
No more EU wonderkids?
The best young players are frequently scouted from around the EU and there are good numbers of EU players under 18 years of age at academies here,” said Andrew Osborne, a partner specialising in immigration at Lewis Silkin LLP, a London-based law firm.
“In the event that Britain leaves the EU, young players will not be able to move from the EU to English clubs under the age of 18 years and so clubs here will not have access to a significant pool of talent.
“Young players from the EU are unlikely to be able to qualify for a work permit and so, again clubs here will be limited in the players they recruit.”
peaking on BBC News at Six on March 31st, Stoke City chairman Peter Coates offered similar concerns over the potential impact of Brexit.
“We’ve got the best players in the world. And we’ve got access through Europe to those best players. Not to have them is self-evidently very damaging, very damaging, and that’s a real threat to us and we shouldn’t go down that road.”
West Ham Chief Executive and Britain Stronger In Europe board member, Karren Brady has also recently offered her thoughts in a statement on the campaign group’s website:
“The Premier League is the most watched league globally because it boasts some of the most talented players from across Europe and around the world.
“Fans pack stadiums and crowd round screens every week to marvel at the likes of Anthony Martial, Francis Coquelin, N’Golo Kante, and our very own Dimitri Payet. Leaving the EU runs the risk of fans missing out on seeing emerging talents from Europe coming to the play at their clubs and gracing the Premier League.”
A red tape hell…
A Britain that has chosen Brexit would exist outside of the EU ‘freedom of movement’ zone and prospective signings would almost certainly need to apply for visas that would hamper the entire transfer process due to extra delays and red tape.
Daniel Alfreds, from sports law firm Couchmans LLP, told Squawka: “At present, a Spanish or Polish player can be transferred on a Friday and be playing for an English club on a Saturday without any delay.”
In a post-Brexit Britain, however, Premier League clubs would find themselves at a disadvantage against their EU counterparts.
Alfreds continued: “It could cause several issues and uncertainties during transfer negotiations. Many European players may not qualify for an automatic visa, It takes time to receive approval during which a non UK club may poach a player and it can be costly, particularly if the decision is taken to appeal.”
…or a homegrown heaven?
Isn’t a drop in foreign imports exactly what English football needs in order to build up its own talent base? Not necessarily.
Should Britain be cut off from the EU, experts seem to agree that it is highly likely that the Premier League would seek talks with the government to seek an exemption around visa rules for footballers – something that could put it on collision course with the Football Association.
“In the event of a Brexit, it is likely that the FA would be charged with meeting the Home Office to discuss the visa rules which should be applied to European players,” said Leon Farr, a solicitor at sports and entertainment-focused law firm OnSide Law. “However, as much as internationalism is an asset for the Premier League, it can be seen as a hindrance for the FA.”
Farr’s view follows on from the thoughts of the FA’s out-going chairman Greg Dyke. In 2015 he stated that “homegrown heroes are fast becoming an endangered species, particularly among the Premier League’s top clubs,” as reported by the Mail, and that the Premier League is in danger of “having nothing to do with English people,” according to BBC News.
Dyke has spearheaded plans to restrict the amount of non-EU players in English football and greatly desires a stronger national team although many of his initiatives, especially the Elite Player Performance Plan, have caused controversy, especially among Football League clubs.
Would Brexit cannibalise the lower leagues?
The feeling for many teams further down the pyramid is that their youth ranks are already over-exposed and raided at will with the cost of running academies having been increased while compensation for player sales has been decreased, and consent for this restructuring sourced by blackmail, according to critics.
If the clubs outside of the Premier League didn’t agree to the plan, their trickle down incomes from the topflight TV revenues would have ceased. Without easy access to European markets, the greatest fears of those below England’s top division could come to be realised, unless the clubs won their battle with the FA.
“If the current work permit rules for non-EU players were applied the Premier League’s best players may not be on show.”“If EU players have to meet current work permit requirements then there will be a significant number that cannot qualify to play in England,” Osborne told Squawka.
“This will leave Premier League squads short of players and so clubs will buy and or poach English players from clubs further down the pyramid. Potentially this will lower the quality of squads in the Football League.”
Given that their last run-in with the game’s national governing body saw them get their own way to create the Premier League, the establishment would be likely to blink first once again.
“All of this suggests the FA would resist lax work permit restrictions on European players post-Brexit. The result would be less European footballers in the Premier League, and in particular, less young talent,” continued Farr.
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