2008 FA Community Shield

2008 FA Community Shield
Match programme cover
Event FA Community Shield
Manchester United Portsmouth
0 0
Manchester United won 3–1 on penalties
Date 10 August 2008
Venue Wembley Stadium, London
Referee Peter Walton
Attendance 84,808
Weather Rain
20 °C (68 °F)[1]

The 2008 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th staging of the FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the reigning Premier League champions and FA Cup winners. The match was played on 10 August 2008 between 2007–08 Premier League champions Manchester United and 2007–08 FA Cup winners Portsmouth as the "curtain-raiser" to the 2008–09 English football season.[2] The match marked the 100th year since the first Charity Shield, also won by Manchester United after a replay in August 1908.

Manchester United won the game 3–1 on penalties, after the match finished 0–0 after 90 minutes; the Community Shield no longer plays extra time if the teams are level at the end of normal time.

The match was the second meeting between the two teams in the space of two weeks, after they had played each other in a friendly in Nigeria on 27 July 2008. It was also the first Community Shield since 1996 to feature a team from outside the big four of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. With this Community Shield title, United extended their record number of wins in the competition to 13 (17 including shared titles).

Match details

Manchester United
Portsmouth
GK1Netherlands Edwin van der Sar
RB2England Gary Neville (c)Yellow card 61' 66'
CB5England Rio Ferdinand
CB15Serbia Nemanja VidićYellow card 45'
LB3France Patrice Evra
RM24Scotland Darren Fletcher
CM18England Paul Scholes
CM22Republic of Ireland John O'Shea 66'
LM17Portugal Nani 79'
SS11Wales Ryan Giggs
CF32Argentina Carlos Tevez
Substitutes:
GK29Poland Tomasz Kuszczak
DF6England Wes Brown 66'
DF21Brazil Rafael
DF23Northern Ireland Jonny Evans
MF16England Michael Carrick 66'
MF34Brazil Rodrigo Possebon
FW31England Fraizer Campbell 79'
Manager:
Scotland Sir Alex Ferguson
GK1England David James
RB5England Glen Johnson
CB15France Sylvain DistinYellow card 37'
CB23England Sol Campbell (c)
LB7Iceland Hermann Hreiðarsson 79'
RM8Senegal Papa Bouba Diop
CM30Portugal Pedro Mendes 75'
CM6France Lassana Diarra
LM19Croatia Niko Kranjčar 60'
CF9England Peter Crouch
CF14England Jermain Defoe
Substitutes:
GK21England Jamie Ashdown
DF4Cameroon Lauren 79'
DF20England Martin Cranie
DF32Mali Djimi Traoré
MF18France Arnold Mvuemba 75'
FW17Nigeria John Utaka 60'
FW26Israel Ben Sahar
Manager:
England Harry Redknapp

Match officials

Man of the match

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of 6 substitutions.

See also

Footnotes

A. ^ Mark Clattenburg was originally appointed as the match referee,[3] but he was suspended over allegations of debt and replaced by Peter Walton.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGLL/2008/8/10/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
  2. ↑ "The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's". TheFA.com. The Football Association. 27 February 2009. Archived from the original on 26 March 2006. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "Shield referee confirmed". TheFA.com. The Football Association. 23 June 2008. Archived from the original on 26 June 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2008.
  4. ↑ "Ref Clattenburg hit by suspension". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
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