Arsenal’s 17/18 season Premier League fixtures already has Gunners fans fearing the worst

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Arsenal fans are not known for their sense of optimism.

As ArsenalFanTV, the plane protests and the whole #WengerOut thing prove, some Gooners are prone to flying off the handle and being relentlessly negative about anything and everything which affects their club.

Which brings us to Arsenal supporters reacting to the release of the Premier League fixtures for the 2017/18 season.

Some Emirates regulars - the ones still capable of remaining calm and composed about football - will have looked at their team's list of 38 games and realised that, regardless of the order in which the games come, they have to play each team twice. They will have accepted that a season of Europa League, not Champions League, football is on the way and will be prepared to cheer on their team as normal.

Others, however, have taken a rather different view of the fixture list.

Some are looking at the fact they face a nightmare post-European scenario next season - with five of their six matches directly after Europa League group stage fixtures away from home - and fearing the worst:

Here are some of the tweets:

@MarkyMBryans  Post Europa League fixtures for #AFC grim reading - Chelsea (A), Brighton (H), Everton (A), Man City (A), Burnley (A), Southampton (A).

@JasonMann_10  Away games for 5 of the Europa group fixtures. Lolll we've been bantered

@BelfastCrusader 5 of Arsenal's 6 fixtures after Europa League matchdays are away from home. The AKB's can keep that one in the locker. #afc #uel

 @dxmball Quite scared for our early fixtures tbh #afc

 @RedCorvette69@Arsenal @premierleague 3rd & 5th fixtures a banana skin.
Sept Man City followed by Spurs.
Wenger will be under pressure.
8th & out of league contention.

@saki___Jif we dont win this league with these set of fixtures then WENGER MUST GO