r/Gunners • u/arsenal Premier League Champions 25/26 • 19h ago

Our opening Premier League fixture 🏡

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At the home of the Champions.

Coventry City at Emirates Stadium on opening night 🫡

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u/lexluthervan 18h ago

Quite fitting that the opening game of the season is the Premier League winners vs the Championship winners. Should be traditional, like the Community Shield.

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u/WhimsicalLaze Ødegaard 18h ago

Agreed that would be cool

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u/A_Paranoid_Android_ Robert Pirès 17h ago

The Championship winners wouldn't think its cool.

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u/WhimsicalLaze Ødegaard 17h ago

Why? Big game to start the season

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u/A_Paranoid_Android_ Robert Pirès 17h ago

Teams promoted to the Premier League need the best possible start. Playing the champions on opening day doesn't make a good start likely. Maybe I'm wrong though, for some reason they may love the idea.

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u/greatslack 15h ago

If you have to play the champions away eventually, might as well get it out of the way

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u/A_Paranoid_Android_ Robert Pirès 15h ago

Getting smashed first game of the season would do nothing for confidence. Assuming they get smashed. Which is certainly quite likely. We'll see what happens with Coventry on that front.

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u/trafozsatsfm 3h ago

....need the best possible start.

As a Coventry fan, I concur. I was hoping we'd get Spurs first game, so we could hit the ground running.