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| Event | FA Community Shield | ||||||
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| Manchester United won 3–1 onpenalties | |||||||
| Date | 10 August 2008 | ||||||
| Venue | Wembley Stadium,London | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Carlos Tevez | ||||||
| Referee | Peter Walton | ||||||
| Attendance | 84,808 | ||||||
| Weather | Rain 20 °C (68 °F)[1] | ||||||
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The2008 FA Community Shield (also known asThe FA Community Shield sponsored byMcDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th staging of theFA Community Shield, an annualfootball match played between the reigningPremier League champions andFA Cup winners. The match was played on 10 August 2008 between2007–08 Premier League championsManchester United and2007–08 FA Cup winnersPortsmouth as the "curtain-raiser" to the2008–09 English football season.[2] The match marked the 100th year since thefirst 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.[3][4]
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 inNigeria 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 andLiverpool. With this Community Shield title, United extended their record number of wins in the competition to 13 (17 including shared titles). As of the 2023 edition, Portsmouth managerHarry Redknapp is the most recent English to manage a team in the Community Shield.
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