Palace first challenge in resumed league for AFCB

The Daily Mail published the proposed Premier League fixtures and dates yesterday and it looks like the BBC will show AFCB's first match against Crystal Palace at home on free to air TV, according to the Bournemouth Echo. With games against Wolves away and Newcastle United at home to follow, this first week will pretty much define whether AFCB can give themselves a chance of staying in the Premier League.

AFCB will hope for a better result against Palace than they had in December.

These fixtures were due to happen back in March, but the big question now is will the couple of months delay make any difference to the outcomes? Eddie Howe himself said there are likely to be some strange results and said we have already seen this in the Bundesliga. AFCB certainly need some strange results with four of the top six to play, but the first three games gives them a chance to get points on the board. The problem is they may have to win them all.

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The stage will be set on the most tension-packed week in AFCB's season so far with these next three games, and while we may be able to see the first game free-to-air there is no guarantee of any of the other matches being free to watch yet. The Daily Mail article stated that 33 of the 92 games are expected to be free to watch, so AFCB fans will be perhaps lucky to see three games of their team without having to pay anything. It might not be the feast of football that will get fans chanting, but at least we have a few weeks to find friends with Sky or BT if the pubs are not open by mid-June. I dare say that many of us will be listening to the radio at least.

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So while the Premier League and Government have been shouting about how accessible the matches will be, fans may well be disappointed unless they support several teams. But for AFCB all efforts are no doubt being made to make the first three games turn into points in the bag, because the next three of Tottenham home, Leicester City home and Man City away look like a potential Eurovison 'nil pointers' for AFCB unless some of those strange results can become a reality.

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