The FA Community Shield is played tomorrow afternoon at Wembley between last year's Premier League Champions, Manchester City, and the FA Cup Winners, Manchester United.
Though long dismissed as a "glorified friendly", and not always played with the normal starting eleven or at a full competitive pace, in recent years most participants have been approaching the game much more seriously - seeing it as a valuable opportunity to kick their season off with a trophy win and perhaps gain a psychological edge over one of their closest rivals. Thus, it is these days usually a better guide to form and line-ups (though still far from 100% reliable) than any of the other pre-season games.
Hence, it's well worth watching, if you can - to get a sense of where these clubs are at for the start of the new season.
And then, next week, you can begin thinking about picking your FPL squad....
[If you've been hard at it, drafting multiple preliminary squads already over the past month - you've not just been wasting your time, you've been actively harming your prospects.]
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