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Wednesday 6th October 1948

Venue: Highbury, Arsenal FC

Arsenal  4
(Lewis 2, Jones, Rooke)
Manchester United  3
(Rowley, Burke, Mitten)

Half-time 4-2
Attendance: 31,000

The Charity Shield match was between 1947/48 Football League champions, Arsenal, and 1947/48 FA Cup winners Manchester United.

Arsenal: G Swindin, W Barnes, L Smith, A Macaulay, L Compton, J Mercer, D Roper, J Logie, R Lewis, R Rooke, B Jones.  

Manchester United:  J Crompton, J Carey, J Aston, J Anderson, A Chilton, J Warner, J Delaney, J Morris, R Burke, J Rowley, C Mitten. 

Link - Details of all Charity Shield/Community Shield matches.   

Did You Know.....
Forget the bowling green surface of the Theatre of Dreams one of Manchester United's previous grounds had a surface which was often little more than sand and mud. In one Second Division match in 1895 - when they were still Newton Heath - they beat Walsall 14-0 but the pitch was so bad they were ordered to replay it.
They only won the replayed match 9-0!
Clubs scoring 10 goals or more in 
League matches