I've had a right touch to be fair; missus is dragging me to two of her friends' weddings on 16th August and 13th September so I was sure at least one of them would end of being a home game but fortunately for me they are both away (West Ham, Sunderland).
I think, given the choice, you'd always want to be home on the final day of the season - we've been home on the final day for the past 4 seasons against quite easy opposition (Birmingham, Fulham, Sunderland, A Villa) so its our turn to be away this year; this will now be our 3rd away game on the first day in successive seasons - (Saudi Sportswashing Machine, C Palace) but before that we had 3 successive home fixtures (Liverpool '09, Emirates Marketing Project '10 and Everton '11 - not the PL fault that the Tottenham riots occurred!)
I thought after last year that we would always be given the Boxing Day home game due to L'****'s inability to stage a game on a public holiday but actually I think Id rather have the New Years Day home game as that will have less travel impact on us for the 3rd round of the FA Cup which is scheduled for 2 days later; last year you'll remember that we played, and won, in a gruelling game at Old Trafford on NYD before having to play l'****, who'd had a home game, on the Saturday.
Will now have the unnacceptably long wait for Sky and BT to choose their games where i suspect most of our remaining saturday games will also be go back to a sunday to compliment all the europa fixtures (on the basis we beat FC Dog and Duck in the Europa qualifiers); so far we are unlikley to have a home sat game until C Palace on Sat 6th December at earliest.