Should the Charity shield be changed to a 'GB Vs RoTW' 'All-Star' match?

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I don't know about you but the Charity shield is a bit of a farce these days. The managers and players rarely take it seriously any more and it's more of a warmup to the season than anything else, so I propose a change.


Make it into a US Style 'All-Star' game. Have a GB team that has to have a minimum of 2 starting players from Scotland, Wales and include Ireland and maybe even 1 from NI/Ireland and have them face off against a 'best of the rest' team made up of Foreign players. I'd like to see the League champions manager and the FA Cup winners manager being on control of the players and they could alternate it every year. Allow them to pick the squad but also set a minimum of players from their own team, maybe 2 on the pitch or 3 in the squad. IMO it would be a far better spectacle than the current Charity Shield and would probably, if anything, raise more money and be more of a pre-season event than it is currently.

Discuss!
 
It might be good to watch but I can't see the clubs being willing to lend their players to another manager to play a charity match.
 
English players might not know anything about it, but many many european/world footballers do several all star games throughout the year for charity.

They aren't remotely competitive though, and good luck getting together a quality world 11 days before the start of the season, theres nothing Real and Barca would love more than having Messi and Ronaldo getting injured in a stupid game and getting tired with longer traveling distances.

The charity shield sells out with high wembley ticket prices, and it sold out when it was a long trip into the millenium stadium aswell, so not sure how you think it will make more money.

The football involved in all star games are frankly, truly ruddy terrible.

It works in basketball because its 5 man teams with pretty specific roles, it works in american football because every play is individual with a plan and specific roles, it never works in football because its a far far far less structure sport, with vastly different roles and lack of familiarity with other players makes for really quite terrible football.

Other than seeing a whole raft of world stars playing together theres entirely nothing interesting in those games. The charity shield would be almost completely uncontested, and dull in terms of football if it changed dramatically.
 
Who needs a boring all-star game? Nobody.

The logistics of getting the teams together won’t work and as there is nothing wrong
with it why contemplate changing it.
 
The charity shield is a good fixture as it is. It's never means *that* much but it always means a little ;)
 
whichever way it ends up - the result is pretty meaningless (even if it is actually the FA Cup winners vs EPL winners)

Rarely to 1st XI's actually start, and with the window still open it means new players can come in also before the EPL really gets going.

Also - more so this year - majority of players arent fully fit yet, so the public are only really getting a glimpse of what we can expect over the next 9 months or so

An All-Stars game would never happen - Clubs just wouldnt allow it
 
Well it wouldn't be a competitive game.

The All Star games that they have in the US usually come with a week break in the season. Where players that are not involved take a rest.

Why have that at the start of the season when not all the transfers are done, players not fully fit etc etc.


No mangers want an extra game in the middle of the season because players play enough already according to their managers.
 
To be honest, this years was better than 80-90% of the world cup games and better than a lot of league games so I dont see the issue.
 
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