GreenUzzy:
Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal

Lattop:
Arsenal 3 Chelsea 1

Lattop:
Arsenal 3 Chelsea 1

chichriso:


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chichriso:
Arsenal v. Chelsea
FA Charity Community Shield
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Time: 7AMPT/10AM ET/3PM PT
Venu: Wembley Stadium, London


This game has often been called a
"curtain-raiser" for the regular season,
which starts in a week. It's not so much
that, as it is another meaningless
friendly - it's just that the FA put it at
Wembley, and used it as a mechanism to raise money for charities, which the
FA's constituent clubs would distribute to
charities in their areas. It has always
been a showcase - at first, it was
amateurs v. professionals, then in the
1920's, it shifted to league winner vs. FA Cup winner, which is how it has
remained ever since. This match had been called the Charity
Shield since 1908, and the FA was
rightly proud of its image and its
charitable good works. That is, until
2002, when the Charity Commission
found that the FA, in a completely surprising, shocking, and not-at-all-
expected turn of events, failed to meet
its obligations under English charity
laws by not specifying how much of
each ticket price was being given to
charity, and by delaying the payment of raised funds to the named charities. So
now, the game has been freed of its
pesky obligation to help others, and it's
the Community Shield. And, as with all friendlies, the result of
this one does not matter. It won't send a
message to Jose if Arsenal win, and it
doesn't signal the beginning of Trophy
Drought II: The Legend Of Curly's Gold if
Arsenal lose. What is this game, then? It's a fine tuning. It's a last bit of
preparation for West Ham. It's a game
that, despite its friendly status, will
probably be played at a much closer
tempo and intensity to a league game
than anything else this summer. So with that said, what sort of team can
you expect to see? I'm really bad at, and
subsequently don't generally do, lineups
and formations, particularly for
friendlies; I will say, though, that I
would expect that Arsenal and Chelsea will both field fairly full-strength
lineups, since it is that last tuneup;
whether we see Jeff or not is still up in
the air.

GreenUzzy:
PLEASE NIGERIAN TIME FOR THE MATCH!