FA Charity Shield Reviews

As a Chelsea fan I was fortunate enough to get a ticket to the community (Charity) shield yesterday as Chelsea beat Manchester United on penalties in the curtain raiser for the new football season. Most people regard the Community shield as a slightly over glamorous friendly game but it also provides the winning team with a trophy and a ...  Read the complete review

This years lack of football was always going to be a short period with the European Championship taking place, that is unless you support France of course who were too busy trying to keep out of the firing line from Mystic Meg loving Domenech. The Community Shield is always a good way of starting the season, if not only to ensure that ...  Read the complete review

I was appalled when I saw JOHN ARNE RIISE emulated Rivaldo's disgraceful play acting in today’s Community Shield. Ok, so it wasn't as bad as Rivaldo's but i don't understand why these stars can do this knowing there are millions of people who look up to them. It is no exaggeration. Riise without doubt fell to the ...  Read the complete review

Good idea and shouldn't even be thought of to abolish it - Advantages: Fun to see, Gives out of favor players to show what they are made of - Disadvantages: Could injure good players and ruin there carerr

The annual curtain raiser of the English League is the Charity Shield. Winners of the previous year's Premiership play the winners of the previous year's FA Cup. If the winners of the Premiership have also won the FA Cup, then the runners-up in the FA Cup will play. Manchester United, the League winners, and Liverpool, who had been ...  Read the complete review

The Charity Shield match is the traditional start to the new football season, played between the new Premiership Champions (Manchester United) and the winners of the F.A. Cup. Although officially only a pre-season friendly, there is a trophy at stake and it’s often regarded as an indicator of things to come in the new season. As the name ...  Read the complete review

The not so Charity Shield kicked of the big boys league today as Man United and Liverpool played out the annual less so friendly these days. One of the reasons the cup has lost its no tackle status is the distribution of the gate money these days. Only a 5000 grand of the 1.7 million goes to the charities with the FA picking up a half a mill ...  Read the complete review

With the weather really gloomy and only TV to watch, it was a rare time all the family sat down to watch the charity shield, in store was an epic game against Liverpool and United. Being die hard Liverpool fans it would be a brilliant day if Liverpool could win against United. We had done the double over United last year for the first time in a ...  Read the complete review

Tomorrow sees the offical curtain raiser for the forthcoming premiership season, with Liverpool versus Manchester United. It should be an interesting game to say the least, with the added spice of the history of rivalry between the two teams. I shall be watching the game purely as a football fan tomorrow as I'm not really a fan ...  Read the complete review

Well, here it is. It is that time of year again. It's time for the Charity Shield and on previous occasions, I have always looked forward to the matches but this year I can't say I am excited at all. Maybe it's because Liverpool beat us twice last season or maybe it is because we keep losing. But whatever I think this match is going to ...  Read the complete review

This years FA Charity shield is something that we were are all looking forward to; it’s the first slice of football that we will see, brilliant. For those who don’t know, the game is between the FA cup winners (Liverpool) and the FA Premier League winner, of course Manchester United. The best thing about this game ...  Read the complete review

So the Charity Shield is here again. the traditional curtain raiser for the season, and this years match in question (Man U vs Liverpool) bought back a fond memory for me. It was the 1990 Shield game between the same 2 teams, United as cup holders and Liverpool as League Champions. Liverpool were of course a great, great team then whilst ...  Read the complete review

I am really looking forward to the charity shield, united versus Liverpool is always a big game and hopefully this game will just be as good. For some odd reason it seems as if the football seasons has come round so quickly. My theory is if United lose the charity shield then they will win the Premiership easily, just look at the times ...  Read the complete review

OK I've rewrote this op after Liverpool have just won their 4th trophy in 7 months...anyway...there were a few comments about who gets the money, and we all seemed unsure, but as you may have heard on the news, the FA is under investigation about what it does with the money. It claims that after the costs of staging the match, about £500,000 ...  Read the complete review

Well well well, that time is nearly upon us yet again. A spectacular curtain Raiser to another exciting premiership season. Last seasons two biggest trophy winners will battle it out for the honour of winning the... absouloutly pointless, piece of cack called the charity shield! I'm sorry but not only does it look like something you see ...  Read the complete review

Why is it that Every time I go to look at ceefax, it says "Final Score, Charity Shield: Blah 10 Blah 0? The Charity shield is a mockery of the Engish Game, teams never put out their strongest team for this huge lump of metal in which the captain who holds it in the match winning photo is nearly crying in pain because his hand has been ...  Read the complete review

Gone are the days when the nation was interested in the charity shield. Gone are the days when it actually meant something to people. Nowadays it has turned into a pre season brawl for the FA cup winners and league winners. Its a shame that it has sunk to this. Viewers do not want to watch it. Fans dont turn up to see it live the weay they ...  Read the complete review

Once again, the chairty shield has proven to be nothing more than a chance to get the new shirts won in before the first real game of the season. As an indication of form for the coming season, nothgin is more useless. However, after betaing United, and therefore becoming the Supreme World Champions of Football, Chelsea have shown exactly what ...  Read the complete review

Manchester United didn't win. SO what?! They will get better, they always do. They always strat off wobbly after some time away from the ball, they will improve! Dumb old Chelsea will fail, they will be beaten all the time, they will go down... The Charity Shield is nothing big, only a little shield! Man U have better things ...  Read the complete review

Some people say that the charity shield dosen't mean anything, and in some ways I can agree that you only get a little cup, and the winners no points or a bye into the FA cup, so some clubs don't take it too seriously.Manchester United and Chelsea, both had good sides out but not their strongest. However the match can be a good indication. ...  Read the complete review