The FA Community Shield Wembley 2/8/15 3pm BT Sports 1

MagicIRL

The Chelsea jersey looks ridiculous with the sponsor so high up the chest.

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Kieran Gibbs- Lord help us!

Grid.

Unlucky Ramsey!

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The ref seemed to lose his shít there

tony1kenobi

Arsene should trot off down the tunnel now and ring Joses wife.

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I'd have given it to Koscielny

Grid.

Nice to see Falcao continue where he finished off last season:P

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Clever Nacho

Tinie

If only Arsenal had an actual finisher. The amount of chances they squander is poor.

GavRedKing

Congrats to Arsenal and Arsene.

13th time lucky. Entertaining game, should set us up nicely for the 2 EPL games.

Arsenal defending well this 2nd half too.

congrats.

Grid.

Well done the Gunners!

bad2dabone

Delighted

Amirani

Courtois gets out so well.

greendom

Great to win and an excellent warm up for the start of the season

gandalf

Yes another monkey off our backs

Delighted, sunburnt and drunk here in France!

BorneTobyWilde

Interesting stat, no team has beating chelsea more times today than Arsenal.

Topbike77

Surprised Koscielny didn't get motm

GavRedKing

who did get MOTM? Ox I assume? Even though I'd agree and say Kos, gave neither CF a sniff and stopped a few near post crosses and pull backs, great performance from himself.

Couple of under performers, most notably Cesc and Ozil.

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Ronan14 wrote: »

Surprised Koscielny didn't get motm

Michael Owen picked it (out of his arse)

Bounty Hunter

In many ways the lack of Costa could be said to be the difference there but I think that'll be a big confidence boost for Arsenal.

It will be fitness dependent for me (unless they sign competition for Giroud / Coquelin) but Arsenal can be title contenders this year. defensively they look so much more solid now esp with le Coq and Bellerin's emergence and Cech behind the back four as a more reliable calming influence.

Glad for Wenger as well to get the Jose monkey off his back although im sure people will start talking about it in terms of competitive matches now.

BorneTobyWilde

Dzeko off to Roma
Would like to have seen him stay in league and get his chance as a starter.
Good to see Arsene get a victory over Jose.

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GavRedKing wrote: »

who did get MOTM? Ox I assume? Even though I'd agree and say Kos, gave neither CF a sniff and stopped a few near post crosses and pull backs, great performance from himself.

Couple of under performers, most notably Cesc and Ozil.

Ozil was doing plenty from my seat, setting up a good few plays

Topbike77

Mourinho is some man to cause a stir up. Don't know if anyone saw that but he shook all the Arsenal players hands and not Wengers.

brianregan09

And he also threw his losers medal in to the ground can't say i disagree with him on that one , Who would want a losers medal i certainly wouldn't

Harpy

Ronan14 wrote: »

Mourinho is some man to cause a stir up. Don't know if anyone saw that but he shook all the Arsenal players hands and not Wengers.

I thought wenger blanked him and walked behind him on purpose so as not to shake his hand..

MisterAnarchy

Chelsea are extremely dependant on Hazard
If you can keep him quiet you keep Chelsea quiet

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@dpweke: So the Yokahama tires are not enough to hold the bus. 😂 #CommunityShield

Kirby

brianregan09 wrote: »

And he also threw his losers medal in to the ground can't say i disagree with him on that one , Who would want a losers medal i certainly wouldn't

Doesnt he always do that? Hasnt he thrown premier league and champions league medals into the crowd before? Seems to be a thing with him.

Berserker

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Chelsea are extremely dependant on Hazard
If you can keep him quiet you keep Chelsea quiet

Most PL teams won't be able to do that but I think they will fail to make an impact on Europe again this season as a result of this. European teams are disciplined enough to be able to keep him quiet.

BorneTobyWilde

brianregan09 wrote: »

And he also threw his losers medal in to the ground can't say i disagree with him on that one , Who would want a losers medal i certainly wouldn't

Are they officially called ''Loser Medals'' stupid name if that's officially whats on medal. Silver medal would be better, or runners up medal.
Why would anyone want to wear a medal with '' LOSER'' on it.

Dozen Wicked Words

Kirby wrote: »

Doesnt he always do that? Hasnt he thrown premier league and champions league medals into the crowd before? Seems to be a thing with him.

Yep, he threw his first 2 premier league winners medals into the crowd, kept the most recent one for his son apparently.

SlickRic

Cech is a monster signing for Arsenal, and we saw a glimpse of it today.

Real title contenders now thanks to that one move.

blag

Wenger blanking Mourinho

Berserker

SlickRic wrote: »

Cech is a monster signing for Arsenal, and we saw a glimpse of it today.

Real title contenders bow thanks to that one move.

I'm not so sure. Still not convinced that they can dig out the 0-1 wins on the road against mid table sides.

Topbike77

Harpy wrote: »

I thought wenger blanked him and walked behind him on purpose so as not to shake his hand..

Just saw it again, your right actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGxU_AAmvM

BorneTobyWilde

blag wrote: »

Wenger blanking Mourinho

Looked like that one backfired on Jose
He was going to shake everyones hand
But he was looking to blank Wenger
But Arsene too clever and Jose was blanked
Jose never got the chance to blank him
1-0 to Wenger

Dozen Wicked Words

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Looked like that one backfired on Jose
He was going to shake everyones hand
But he was looking to blank Wenger
But Arsene too clever and Jose was blanked
Jose never got the chance to blank him
1-0 to Wenger

Now we cross live to BorneTobyWilde's house

Mickeroo

blag wrote: »

Wenger blanking Mourinho

Looked fairly mutual tbh.

gosplan

Mickeroo wrote: »

Looked fairly mutual tbh.

Looked really like it was a bit of who gives a flying **** anyway.

Mourinhio saying it was Wenger that blanked him

Id day the red top rags absolutely love him!

That_Guy

rarnes1 wrote: »

Mourinhio saying it was Wenger that blanked him

Id day the red top rags absolutely love him!

It's such a non story. I'm embarrassed for the pair of them.

That_Guy

That_Guy wrote: »

It's such a non story. I'm embarrassed for the pair of them.

Yeah it's ridiculous.

Two grown men.

If kids were doing it you'd tell them to cop the fcuk on. Surprised at Wenger. It's normal behaviour for Mourinhio.

Alfred Borden

I wouldnt shake someones hand who continually disrespected me and talks sh*t about me to the media every chance he gets.

glued

Mourinho is a parody figure since Madrid. The difference is that the English media are dim enough to feed his ego whereas the Spanish media tore him apart. He's a complete embarrassment at this stage. He's not even funny anymore.

Wenger is as bad for giving him the satisfaction of ignoring him.

monkey9

That_Guy wrote: »

It's such a non story. I'm embarrassed for the pair of them.

Football these days is pure Hello magazine. I'm actually bored of the season already. This is the tripe we're going to have to put up with again. Egomanicacs are to think they're bigger or better than the team and the sport.