Showing posts with label FA Community Shield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FA Community Shield. Show all posts
Manchester United star Phil Jones has emphasized the Red Devils will be a stronger team under new manager David Moyes. The team has been on a pre-season tour and that has allowed the players to come together and understand the vision of their new boss.
While backing Moyes and his new training sessions, Jones said
"We've been together four or five weeks now and had some really good training sessions. He [Moyes] has implemented what he wants us to do in training and games and we can already see things coming off in games. Come the start of the season we'll be ready to go and firing. A lot of the lads are excited."
The defender added that United squad under Moyes is almost ready for the new season. The first competitive game of the new season happens on August 11 when Man United face Wigan in the Community Shield.
English champions Manchester United will face Wigan Athletic on August 11 for the 2013 Community Shield at Wembley Stadium.
This fixture will be a great opportunity for the new Red Devils manager David Moyes to start his tenure as United boss with a victory and begin the Moyes revolution at Old Trafford. He has already started it on a positive note by signing young Guillermo Varela.
A victory over the Latics will not only make him at ease with the United hot seat but it will also be an encouraging way for players to approach the new season.
Recently, the Football Association confirmed Wembley Stadium as venue for this year’s decider as last year this fixture was moved to Villa Park due to the London 2012 Olympics.
For the first time in 28 years, Manchester United will be playing in this fixture without Sir Alex Ferguson as their manager. Thus, all eyes of the world will be on David Moyes when he leads them out for his first competitive game.
Surely, by that time, he will bring in some interesting recruits. Hopefully, we should see Robert Lewandowski and Cesc Fabregas wear the new Manchester United kit with bwin.Party as their shirt sponsor. The team had used some of that sponsorship money over the summer to secure Van Persie, a deal that has proved to make a big difference last season.
The FA, which is celebrating their 150th anniversary this year have granted United fans a ticket allocation of 35,000 while Wigan Athletic will have 15,000. Tickets for the game are available at £45, £35, £25 and £20.
Money raised from the Community Shield is distributed by The FA to charities nominated by all the clubs who played in the First Round of The FA Cup onwards from the previous season.
The 2013 Community Shield will indeed be a curtain raiser for the new English football season. If you’re a United fan, set the date in your calendar – August 11, with 2 pm being the kick-off time.
Manchester United loses on penalties to Chelsea.
Usually, player’s heroics are considered to win matches and trophies to their teams. But today’s FA Community Shield saw something bizarre. Referee Chris Foy’s horrifics helped Chelsea win their first trophy under their new head coach.Manchester United started the game very well and were rewarded when Nani scored inside the first 10 minutes. After that United did look a bit shaky but still had more chances and looked more attacking than Chelsea. The score remained in United’s favor at the interval.
However, after the interval, Chelsea looked very different and started to pass the ball very well. Their consistent possession of the ball coupled with great passing and shaky defending from United gifted them an equalizer when Ricardo Carvalho scored with a diving header.
It was all square again and the game looked very competitive with no team allowing the other to score a goal. That’s when referee Chris Foy decided to play spoilsport. His fucking decision making abilities allowed Chelsea to take the lead and that delivered a blow to United.
Chelsea substitute Michael Ballack clearly elbowed Patrice Evra, and knocked him down. Even while he was laying hurt on the ground referee Chris Foy allowed play to continue. This distracted United’s attention and Lampard scored to make it 2-1 to Chelsea.
United players did make appeals to the referee but he paid no heed. Neither was Ballack booked nor was he reprimanded. Rather, minutes later Evra was booked for a cynical foul on Ballack. Common Chris Foy, how much did Chelsea pay you for all those decisions?Wayne Rooney did equalize in injury time to send the match in a penalty shoot-out, but United fumbled there and lost. I do agree that United had some serious chances to nail this match much earlier and they failed to convert those chances. But I have a strong belief that referee Chris Foy was responsible for United’s loss. I think he prevented Manchester United from winning their third successive FA Community Shield. Fuck you, Mr.Chris Foy.
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