Charity Shield - Live Online

Watch Manchester United VS Chelsea In The Charity Shield Live!

The Charity Shield (or as people like to call it these days, the Community Shield) has been the traditional curtain opener to the English football season since 1908. Typically it's played between the winners of the top tier in English football and the winners of the FA Cup although if that's the same team then the FA tend to decide who will bring the most supporters/greatest TV audience and go with them! Although the Charity Shield (OK, I’ll cut it out now – Community Shield) is strictly regarded as a pre-season friendly over the years it has become more and more competitive. Just for the record Manchester United have won the Community Shield the most times closely followed by Liverpool.

The 2009 Charity Shield sees Premier League winners Manchester United pushing for a record entending 14th shield win against the current FA Cup holders Chelsea. It should be a decent game, not least because there will be a lot of interest in seeing how a Manchester United squad without Ronaldo and Tevez fair against a largely unchanged Chelsea squad that weren't too far from the Premier League title themselves last year. Although it's a friendly it will go some way to indicating the relative strength of what most people expect to be a much weaker Manchester United this year. Chelsea on the other hand will be keen to prove that any talk of their aging squad is premature and that they will be a force in the Premier League once again this year. Either way the Charity Shield is always the first excuse for English footy fans to get excited and this year will be no different.

In terms of watching the Charity Shield live the figures don't stack up to the FA Cup but even so there is a huge audience interested in watching this game. The Charity Shield will be shown live all around the world on various TV networks. The amount of people interested in watching the Charity Shield live online as well will be huge and no doubt there will be numerous sources for doing this. As always with online streams some will be much higher quality than others. If you're stuck for a way of watching the Charity Shield live online then you should check out this service, they'll have you up and running in no time.

The 2009 Charity Shield kicks off on Sunday the 9th of August, don't miss it!