Everton to face Blackburn first up
EVERTON begin their Premier League season at home for the fifth season running with a visit from Blackburn Rovers.
The first port of call for the Blues' travelling army is the Hawthorns, West Brom a week later before FA Cup winners and fellow UEFA Cup contenders Portsmouth are at Goodison a week later.
September sees two consecutive trips to face newly-promoted sides at Stoke (13th) and Hull City (20th) before the month concludes with the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Goodison on the 27th.
October sees a testing run of fixtures against Newcastle (4th) and Manchester United (25th) at Goodison with trips to Arsenal (18th) and Bolton (28th).
Fulham start November at Goodison on the first of the month, before trips to West Ham (8th), Wigan (22nd) and Tottenham (29th) sandwiching a home fixture against Middlesbrough on the 15th.
December begins with a home fixture against Aston Villa on the 6th before a trip to Manchester City on the 13th - Chelsea (20th) and Sunderland (28th) are the festive programme visitors to Goodison with the Blues' away troops faced with a Boxing Day visit to the Riverside to take on Middlesbrough.
Hull City, and the potential return of Nick Barmby, are the first visitors to Goodison on January 10 before the Anfield derby return a week later.
January ends with Arsenal's midweek trip to Goodison on the 28th and Manchester United at Old Trafford on the 31st.
February sees a trip to Newcastle on the 21st sandwiched between home games with Bolton (7th) and West Brom (28th) while March's sole home league fixture is against Stoke City (14th) coupled with trips to Blackburn (4th) and Portsmouth (21st).
Wigan begin April at Goodison on the 4th before trips to Aston Villa (11th) and Chelsea (18th) and ex-Evertonian Mark Hughes' return to Goodison with Manchester City on the 25th.
The Blues run-in sees home games with Spurs (May 9th) and West Ham (16th) along with a trip to Sunderland (May 2nd), ) before the final league fixture of the season, on the unseasonably late date of May 24th, against Fulham at Craven Cottage.
All fixtures are of course subject to change due to TV requirements.
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