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. 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
GK 1 Edwin van der SarRB 2 Gary Neville (c) CB 5 Rio FerdinandCB 15 Nemanja Vidić LB 3 Patrice EvraRM 24 Darren FletcherCM 18 Paul ScholesCM 22 John O'Shea LM 17 Nani SS 11 Ryan GiggsCF 32 Carlos TevezSubstitutes:GK 29 Tomasz KuszczakDF 6 Wes Brown DF 21 RafaelDF 23 Jonny EvansMF 16 Michael Carrick MF 34 Rodrigo PossebonFW 31 Fraizer Campbell Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson GK 1 David JamesRB 5 Glen JohnsonCB 15 Sylvain Distin CB 23 Sol Campbell (c)LB 7 Hermann Hreiðarsson RM 8 Papa Bouba DiopCM 30 Pedro Mendes CM 6 Lassana DiarraLM 19 Niko Kranjčar CF 9 Peter CrouchCF 14 Jermain DefoeSubstitutes:GK 21 Jamie AshdownDF 4 Lauren DF 20 Martin CranieDF 32 Djimi TraoréMF 18 Arnold Mvuemba FW 17 John Utaka FW 26 Ben SaharManager: Harry Redknapp Man of the match Carlos Tevez (Manchester United)
Match officials Assistant referees: Dave Richardson (West Yorkshire) Ian Gosling (Kent) Fourth official: Andre Marriner (Birmingham)Match rules 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Seven named substitutes, of which up to six may be used
See also 2007–08 Premier League 2007–08 FA Cup
Footnotes
A. Mark Clattenburg was originally appointed as the match referee, but he was suspended over allegations of debt and replaced by Peter Walton.
References
Sources
2008 Final at Guardian