Arsenal face Liverpool at a fan-free Wembley on Saturday to kick off England’s 2020-21 campaign, just over 138 hours after the 2019-20 Champions League final
Finally, the waiting is over. The barren summer is at its end. How on earth did we pass the time? Those listless days. The yawning void between the Champions League final last Sunday and the Community Shield on Saturday. But now, like the first drop of rain on a puddle, a nation starved of football for all of 138 hours can finally gorge itself. Or, as the Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, so aptly put it this week: “We are ready to go. We have no choice.”
Yes, football’s back, and it feels like it’s never been away. Partly because it hasn’t. Six days after Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich brought down the curtain on the elongated 2019-20 campaign, Arsenal and Liverpool will step out at an empty Wembley to formally inaugurate the 2020-21 English season, after not so much an off-season as a barely visible seam between rolling campaigns, the perforated join separating two bin bags.
Written by Jonathan Liew
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/28/meaningless-community-shield-ends-barely-visible-seam-between-seasons-arsenal-liverpool-wembley under the title “Meaningless Community Shield ends barely visible seam between seasons | Jonathan Liew”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
