Golden Greenery

The formulation of the Premier League schedule was once ridiculed by officials as "mission impossible", but it has been completed very well, although it seems a bit confusing to those familiar with other leagues.

Most football leagues in the world, including Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Portugal, basically adopt the "snake-shaped matchup" method based on last season's rankings. For example, round 1: 1~20, 2~110

Round 2: 1~120

Of course, there are also snake-shaped battles where one or two lines are skipped, but the meaning is the same. At most, there will be some fine-tuning to take care of sharing the home court or to cover his special circumstances, but the basic principles will not change.

The schedule formulated in this way is very clear, and it can also be called rigid. Taking AC Milan as an example, my opponents this season are: 1 Turin, 2 Naples, 2 Udine...19 Cagliari.

Then the order of AC Milan's matchups in the second half of the cycle is still the same: 20 Turin, 21 Naples, 23 Udine... 38 Cagliari.

It's just a reversal of home and away games. If you encounter problems during the course of the race, you can find solutions on the fly.

However, the Premier League's schedule is more user-friendly and respects the opinions of clubs and fans, so it will make people who don't know what is going on confused and confused.

At the beginning of each year, the Premier League will first determine the start date of the next season, and then try every means to find suitable match days for the dazzling array of games.

During this period, I still have to argue with the Football Association (FA Cup), take care of my younger son's League Cup, and the indispensable European competition schedule.

Next, the staff will send test papers to each club, with three main questions.

1: I don’t want to play home games on any day;

2: Which specific team do you want to play against on a certain day;

3: Which club you don’t want to play on Boxing Day or any other day.

The same vouchers will also be sent to each club's major fans' organizations and fan representatives, and more detailed written documents will be sent to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the British Traffic Police (BTP) to determine the requirements for each city in the next competition year. Public Affairs.

After all these investigations and applications are collected, the schedule making department will input all conditions into the computer software specially developed for this purpose to form restrictive conditions, and then use the 'snake' as the backing board, and then conduct random computer sorting.

There will be an extremely large number of permutations and combinations of 20 teams, and there will also be a lot of restrictions. Before specialized software is developed, all of this needs to be done manually. The workload is appalling, so it's impossible. Finish'.

The golden rule of the Premier League schedule: No matter which game you start from, every five rounds must be three home and two away or three away and two home;

No team will have two consecutive home or two away games at the beginning and end of the season;

Home game on Boxing Day (the first day after Christmas), and away game on New Year’s Day;

If there are multiple clubs in the same city, home games will be arranged separately;

Minimize travel distances between clubs on Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

The Premier League's schedule is formulated to take into account the interests of teams, fans, police, municipal governments, broadcasters and other parties to the greatest extent, and compromises with every club, but it does not favor any club.

This kind of schedule formulation,

Although it is very troublesome and looks quite messy, compared to other leagues, especially Apennines, which is famous for its lazy politics, it is undoubtedly a lot more scientific.

However, the fundamental reason is that there are too many games in England, and the various games are mixed together so intensively that they can create phobias. If not carefully arranged in this way, a game with unreasonable time and date arrangements will affect the progress of 40 to 50 games at most. Therefore, people are forced out, and the schedule is the same.

At noon on January 2, 2017, less than 48 hours after the last round against Liverpool, Manchester City welcomed its opponent in the 20th round of the Premier League at home. This is the result of the 'scientific' schedule arrangement.

Round 20 is the first game of the second half of the schedule. Due to the characteristics of the Premier League, Manchester City's opponent is not Sunderland in the first round last August, but Burnley in the 13th round.

Burnley and Bournemouth are two cities in the north and one in the south. The difference is as big as Nanjing and Nanchang, and the teams are naturally unrelated.

As we all know, rugby is derived from football. It is said that a stupid boy named Ellis got anxious when his opponent kicked him during the game. He picked up the football and dunked it in his arms. He kept dodging obstacles and rushed into the opponent's goal in one breath. What began as ridicule and imitation soon led to the birth of rugby.

In other words, football is the father of rugby. But not Burnley, they are the sons of rugby.

In May 1882, internal strife broke out within the Burnley Rugby Football Union. The working class was not a fuel-efficient lamp, so the two groups wiped their arms and rolled up their sleeves and went straight to training.

The small group lost the battle and were expelled from the rugby league, but they were not convinced and did not want to rely on rugby anymore, so they established Burnley Wanderers Football Club.

In the early days, the technical content of football was not as high as it is now. It was mainly about physical play. Many people were capable of both football and football.

, the English Professional League was established, and Burnley was one of the 12 founding clubs.

Burnley were the British Championship champions last season and were able to avoid the play-offs and gain direct promotion to the Premier League. In the 13th round more than a month ago, Manchester City defeated Burnley 2:1 on the road with Aguero scoring in the first and second half. Zhuo Yang came on as a substitute in the 78th minute of that game, but he didn't do anything special.

After half the battle, Burnley ranked 12th in the standings, which is very good for a newly promoted team.

Burnley is nicknamed the 'Red Wine Legion'. In fact, they do not produce red wine at all locally, nor any wine at all. I don't know where this nickname came from.

There are now only four English coaches left on the Premier League coaching bench, and Dyche is one of them. Coach Dyche is revered by Burnley fans as the team's godfather, calling him 'Saint Dyche' or 'Royal Dyche'.

With ginger hair and a good joker, Sean Dyche's most famous nickname is 'Ginger Mourinho'.

Burnley, coached by Dyche, ran more distance than their opponents in every round of the Premier League's first half of the schedule. Burnley occupied three of the top ten players in the Premier League's total running distance list. Burnley midfielder Boyd accounted for four of the top five distances traveled in a single game...

This is a typical working-class team and a typical traditional English team. In the voting of all Premier League fans, Burnley is the favorite team after their home team.

Burnley, a team that everyone loves and enjoys, visited the City Stadium first when 2017 just arrived.

What greeted them was Manchester City, ranked fifth, and Zhuo Yang, who started with the captain's armband.

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