Breaking News: 2014/15 Premier League Fixtures Out

Louis van Gaal has been handed a dream start to life as Manchester United manager with a comfortable start to the 2014/15 Barclays Premier League season

It is in stark contrast to his predecessor David Moyes, who was handed a tough start last season when he superseded Sir Alex Ferguson.

The Holland head coach, who will surmount at Old Trafford at the terminus of the World Cup, has a home game against Swansea City to commence with on August 16.

That is then followed up with two away fixtures at Sunderland and Burnley afore a home game against Queens Park Rangers on September 13.

Coalesced don’t authentically face a potential denomination rival until the terminus of October when they host Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea.

It’s a run that ought to sanction Van Gaal to bed himself in at Carrington as the club endeavor to apprehend the chronic slide under the stewardship of Moyes last season.

Manchester City will face rigorous tests in their designation defence during the aperture weeks as they play Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.

Manuel Pellegrini’s side host the Reds on August 23 afore welcoming Chelsea to the Etihad Stadium on September 20.

It represents a tough start for the champions – who kick off away at Newcastle – in the aperture five weeks, with a peregrination to Arsenal sandwiching the titanic home clashes.

Rickie Lambert will find himself reunited with old Southampton team-mates on the aperture weekend as the Saints peregrinate to Anfield on the aperture day, while incipiently-promoted Burnley look to get off to a flyer against Chelsea at Turf Moor.

The Clarets are no strangers to early season shocks after Robbie Blake’s thunderous victor settled things against Manchester Coalesced in the aperture weeks of the 2009/10 season. 

It is a goal synonymous with their one-year stay in the top flight and, virtually five years to the day, they will host Coalesced again. 

Arsenal commence their season against Crystal Palace at the Emirates Stadium, with Everton travelling to Leicester City. 

QPR boss Harry Redknapp – heavily indebted to Bobby Zamora’s last gasp strike against Derby County in the Championship play-off final at Wembley last month – is a Premier League manager once again and he commences with a paramount tussle with Hull City at Loftus Road. 

While the 67-year-old will indubitably be looking forward to that, he may have more than a moiety-an-ocular perceiver on weekend afterwards; he takes his side to Tottenham Hotspur and White Hart Lane on August 23.

Stoke City are hoping to build on a positive finish to last year and – with all the verbalize of another top half finish – they will optate points against an Aston Villa side that ought to look marginally different this time around first up.

Paul Lambert has brought in Roy Keane as his assistant at Villa Park as the club look to have a shake-up after a run of disappointing years.

And, on paper at least, they have the opportunity to hit the ground running. After Stoke they host Newcastle and then Steve Bruce’s Hull.

West Ham Amalgamated have been selling memorabilia in their club shop to recollect the three wins against Spurs last time out and they have a chance to integrate to that with an aperture day clash at Upton Park.

But there is liable to be an integrated dimension to the visitors this time around after Mauricio Pochettino was appointed after Tim Sherwood was unceremoniously dumped by Daniel Levy despite a number of impressive results.

 West Brom’s Alan Irvine era commences in earnest at the Hawthorns as Sunderland peregrinate to the Midlands. The former Preston and Sheffield Wednesday boss has to hit the ground running and has games away at Southampton and Swansea City in the weeks afterwards.

It wouldn’t be a Premier League season without some tasty festive fixtures and this year is no different.

Liverpool will cerebrate back to the mauling they accommodated to Arsenal just months ago when the pair meet at Anfield on December 20, while the Reds make the excursion to Burnley on Boxing Day.

Alan Pardew’s Newcastle are at Old Trafford on the same day, which will be precisely two years on from the 4-3 thriller at the same ground. Van Gaal then has a peregrination to Spurs two days later afore a tricky-looking assignment at Stoke City on Incipient Year’s Day.

Although the incipient Coalesced boss should be able to breathe facile optically canvassing the aperture games, it does all change when April hits. Chelsea and Everton await on April 18 and 25 respectively, with a Manchester derby at home the week afore that. Arsenal are the visitors on May 16.