Chelsea in The Community Shield – Fans Day Out

Chelsea were beaten in the 2010 Community Shield by Manchester United, the performance and the seemingly unfinished pre-season will undoubtably weigh heavily on the minds of Chelsea fans everywhere.

Despite the disapointment of the loss, this was also an opportunity to catch up with my footballing friends for the first time since the FA Cup Final in May. In truth the actual Community Shield match tends to play a minor role in a day of singing, drinking and catching up with familar faces.

Due to recent success Chelsea fans may have become a little blase about visiting Wembley, with the Community Shield not a definite on every fans to do list, maybe having played there every year since 2005 has meant that to some the focal point of English football is losing some of its magic and aura.

Trips to Wembley however are a great excuse for a day out. My day consisted of a few beers, singing and throwing celery outside the Globe pub in the hours leading up to kick off.

The trip down Wembley way was punctuated by singing and banter, with a largely friendly group of Manchester United supporters, I always enjoy this and find it refreshing when football banter, does not lead to football stupidity.

Another pleasing aspect was that once in the ground I only heard the buzzing of one or two rogue Vuvuzela’s, I do not think that English football will ever be ready to embrace this phenomenon of the World Cup.

The most frustrating part of the day however was the pathetic booing of the England players from both sides, I am not quite sure what it achieves and it grates me that it is regardless of the action taking place on the pitch, maybe I am just hypersensitive in my old age, but its a little bit boring.

Ultimately the trip to Wembley ended in defeat, I will be honest and say that I havent really given it the slightest bit of consideration in the fact that we lost, just that our performances need to improve.

This was a very brief review of the Community Shield but the season starts properly on Saturday at 17:30 and lets hope that the team and not just the fans turn up this time.