Unai Emery's life in English football began with a difficult quirk of the fixture list. Our opening two games were against Man City and Chelsea, and we know both ended in defeat. Since then we've remained unbeaten in all competitions, even when the schedule was unkind. We could have had a much longer trip in the Europa League before we played Sp*rs and then Man Utd within three days of each other. We have Liverpool away right towards the end of the festive period, and looking further ahead we again have Sp*rs and United within 7 days of each other in March – games which could well sandwich a Europa League Round of 16 tie. He'd be well within his rights to think things might have been a...
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