View Full Version : Community Shield...does anyone care? [R]
catenaccio_L'pool
12 Aug 2006, 02:12 PM
It is a competition that started in 1908, so it has plenty of history behind it...Liverpool and Chelsea are playing, so it should be entertaining...from what I understand, the funds from the game are given to charity (hence its earlier name Charity Cup)...but is the Cup itself worth much? Do the fans care if their team wins this particular Cup?
pookspur
12 Aug 2006, 03:03 PM
the winners will reflect a reserved pleasure.
the losers will claim indifference.
musicl
12 Aug 2006, 04:32 PM
It matters tomorrow. But after that no one is really bothered.
dustcowpoke
12 Aug 2006, 10:40 PM
Well due to Setanta buying the US rights to Liverpool vs. Chelsea games I am excited because this will be the only Liverpool vs. Chelsea game on FSC!
leg_breaker
12 Aug 2006, 10:46 PM
Two boring teams who play each other three hundrd times a season so know how to cancel each other out, playing in a meaningless game. Scrap it and start the Premiership a week earlier.
Stephen1164
12 Aug 2006, 10:52 PM
Sure first hardware of the season for Chelsea!
Clan
13 Aug 2006, 09:24 AM
Two boring teams who play each other three hundrd times a season so know how to cancel each other out, playing in a meaningless game. Scrap it and start the Premiership a week earlier.
Pah!
You'd sing a different tune if Bolton were in it, I suspect.
It doesn't mean a whole lot, it's just a traditional season opener, nice day out.
Would have been better if the new Wembley was open for it though.
What will it count for on Monday morning?
Not much really.
Nobody brags about winning the charity shield!
red994
13 Aug 2006, 12:09 PM
Chelsea is looking very sluggish. Losing to MLS ALL-STAR and now losing to LiverPool.
Was a boring game tho. But i do think that this match was an important one, mentally.
leg_breaker
13 Aug 2006, 01:15 PM
You'd sing a different tune if Bolton were in it, I suspect.
No, I still wouldn't be interested. But then I wasn't interested when we were in the league cup final either, or for any of the Uefa cup. I don't have time for meaningless tournaments, and I don't like being flooded by foodball 24/7/365.
Nobody brags about winning the charity shield!
I'll put a fiver on Liverpool doing just that.
RichardL
13 Aug 2006, 04:16 PM
No, I still wouldn't be interested. But then I wasn't interested when we were in the league cup final either, or for any of the Uefa cup. I don't have time for meaningless tournaments, and I don't like being flooded by foodball 24/7/365..
out of curiosity, is there actually anything you do like about football?
leg_breaker
14 Aug 2006, 01:30 AM
Yeah I like international tournaments and the league. Not really into all the money-making side-tournaments.
Mental_Mackem
14 Aug 2006, 01:55 AM
It's the curtain raiser for the whole season and at the end
of the day it's another trophy in the cabinet for the winners.
It's played as a competative game and still with all the passion
that you would see in a league or cup game
sendô
14 Aug 2006, 09:16 AM
Yeah I like international tournaments and the league. Not really into all the money-making side-tournaments.
If I was allergic to irony I'd be having a heart attack right now.
Colm
14 Aug 2006, 10:39 AM
Two boring teams who play each other three hundrd times a season so know how to cancel each other out, playing in a meaningless game. Scrap it and start the Premiership a week earlier.Is the only thing you do is complain about football?
PsychedelicCeltic
14 Aug 2006, 11:15 AM
Pah!
You'd sing a different tune if Bolton were in it, I suspect.
This would mean Bolton had won something, so plainly no chance of that.
devilwolf
14 Aug 2006, 03:13 PM
Chelsea "fans" obviously don't care. Otherwise, they would have supported their team at the event.
655321
14 Aug 2006, 03:21 PM
No, I still wouldn't be interested. But then I wasn't interested when we were in the league cup final either, or for any of the Uefa cup. I don't have time for meaningless tournaments, and I don't like being flooded by foodball 24/7/365.
Time for your cocoa, gramps! Drink it up and then you can lay down for a nice nap before your 4PM supper.
revelationx
14 Aug 2006, 07:47 PM
Well it is always nice to win, but no great shakes if you don't.
Put it this way, no-one has an open-top bus parade after winning it.
cfc.firm
15 Aug 2006, 09:54 AM
it means about as much as the MLS pre-season matches.
superdave
15 Aug 2006, 11:53 AM
You guys should have an all-star game.
All the teams that wear either deep blue or white against the teams that wear red and Other Colors. Newcastle and West Brom (when they're up) play for whichever side has fewer clubs represented.
Let's see...Chelsea, Everton, Reading, Portsmouth, Wigan, Blackburn, Spurs, Bolton, Fulham vs. ManU, Sheffield United, Middlesborough, Charlton, Arsenal, Liverpool, West Ham, Villa, Man City, Watford.
That would put Newcastle in blue.
Seriously, wtf are English sides so boring, color wise? Every team is in deep blue, bright red, or white, except Watford, Man City, and the Villa-Ham twins. Where's the purple? The orange? The burgundy, the teal, the maroon, the navy blue?