It doesn't matter - apart from when it does

The Community Shield is a friendly that rarely tells anybody anything – other than those rare occasions when it suddenly exposes truths nobody had suspected

Saturday was the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Community Shield, in which Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0. The Community Shield is always a slightly strange occasion. Managers love to include it in their list of successes and, particularly in odd-numbered years when there’s been no major men’s international tournament, there’s always a sense of relief when it …