VIDEO: Villa to start and finish season away
Aston Villa will start and finish the season away from home for the fifth consecutive year.
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Tim Sherwood's men open the new Premier League campaign with a trip to newly-promoted Bournemouth and round off the season away to Arsenal.
The claret and blues last home opener was in 2010, when they defeated West Ham 3-0, writes Matthew Maher.
But despite their run of being drawn away, they will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of opening day wins. They travel to the Cherries having beaten Arsenal and Stoke in the past two years.
