A Look at Hull City's Fixture List

At first glance it looks like Hull have got a pretty bad set of fixtures. Headline fixtures such as Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to kick off the season and finishing up with Liverpool at home seem like bad new.

But if we dig a little deeper we can see that Hull have actually got a pretty good season.

After Chelsea and then Spurs there's a run of four teams including Birmingham and Wolves that they have a very good chance of getting results against.

Really the fixtures play out very much like this throughout the season. We seem to have a couple of hard games and then a stretch of games where we have teams that we are able to compete against.

The last fixture is certain to cause a few worries for any loyal fan. Who can forget the last day nerves at the KC when Hull went down 1-0 by a Manchester United youth team and not knowing whether they stayed up or went down. Nobody want that experience again even though the elation was all the more sweeter when we found out that Hull had stayed in the Premier League.

Having said all that about the last day it was with some consternation that I noticed Hull had another big four club—in the dread guise of Liverpool. But looking a bit deeper into the fixtures and it doesn't seem too bad at all. Running up to the last game Hull have a run of six games which are easily winnable.

Playing well in these games means that the last game of the season actually doesn't really matter that much. Now I know that Hull fans only have to think back to the traumatic last quarter to the season where the big plunge really started and the fixtures looked pretty much like they did for the upcoming season. Winnable games followed by the big four finish.

But with the upcoming season Hull will be a stronger, wiser, fitter side (in theory) and such a plummet would seem less likely.

Overall I think Hull have a pretty nice fixture list. Sure Chelsea away looks tough to kick off the campaign but the big four teams are quite spread out over the season and not grouped together in a "month of death."

Of course nobody knows how the transfer market and the next season will play out and some team might turn out to be a huge disappointment or an incredible revelation (Sunderland could go either way.) But on Hull should be pretty thankful for the lottery that is the EPL fixtures.