Could we be playing in the Community Shield after all?

[OliMCFC]

I'd gladly see City take part in it again, continue our winning streak in it.

However, considering Liverpool have been showing off their quadruple with the two other meaningless friendlies in the European SuperCup and the Club World Cup, this decision shocks me. But then again Kloppo has never cared for the domestic cups

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Can someone explain to a lazy bastard why the scummy twats are ducking out of it?

Because they aren’t good enough to play to win all competitions. He and his team can only manage a couple of competitions at a time, they neither have the quality nor the mental fortitude to work hard every day of the season and in every game of the season to win everything, so they throw the domestic cups and now want to duck out of a one-off game.

Could you imagine the media and other fans’ reactions to City if we disrespected all the non-Prem domestic trophies like these shithouses do!..

 

[Plain Speaking]

Surely the community shield is normally between the PL winners and FA cup winners, we shouldn't be playing in it at the start of next season. We only played second placed Liverpool because we had won both PL and FA cup.

 

[Eds]

Should be told to play using their first team squad or face a large fine (£10m) and / or a points deduction. Who the fuck do they think they are? Next thing it will be we don’t want to play Saturday and Tuesday, we will only play on a Saturday

 

[Corky]

You can't blame them, it s a none sense of a fixture this season and will hardly raise much fro charity with little no fans involved.

Team used to opt not to play in it until they contractually obliged them too when Sky came along, and also there would often be draws with no team winning it so it is really meaningless.

 

[lancs blue]

Pep says it’s a major trophy as well. At the end of last season when he kept being asked about his “Treble”, he was firm on saying we had won four trophies, not three.

I’d like to play in it anytime we get the chance to be honest. We did in 1972 when we’d finished fourth the season before, when Derby and Leeds declined to play in it.

And the following year we played Burnley in the CS at Maine Rd - it should have been Liverpool v Sunderland but both declined the invite. That triggered the FA to move it to Wembley as an incentive for the League and FA Cup winners to take part.

 

[give it to gordon]

Binning of the first domestic trophy before the season even starts to try and hold onto the premier league title , lfc are a joke of a club

 

[crazyg]

Amazing to think that some clubs treat it as a meaningless fixture, but if hey win it, it is emblazoned on the club's honours' board.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Amazing to think that some clubs treat it as a meaningless fixture, but if hey win it, it is emblazoned on the club's honours' board.

Tbh it's become something of an annual tradition for the losers to declare it a meaningless friendly and the winners to regard it as a domestic title.

 

[Impeccable One]

City could always field an ‘alternative’ team in the CS.

In any event City have been playing every three to four days since the restart and not far off that before the shut down. Six days would be luxury.

But it really would be just one day after the mother of all 5 day benders !