Arsenal v Man City - The Community Shield

There appears to be about the first five rows of seats all empty along the whole length of the side opposite the camera
Can't be unsold seats?
Any ideas?

In fact, both ends as well?

City's defence in tatters

I believe those seats are not sold due to them not having a proper view due to cameras etc

OK, thanks, it makes sense as a reason but not as a stadium design

3-0

Sacked in the morning.

My mate said he had the 3-0 and 4-0 Arsenal ....I asked hm prices as  was looking for some value , he came back and said ' Tks alot cashed out 25s for 33s and 50s for 80s ' . I looked on machine and said looks decent . Had DDs superboost myself . Tbf he has the same bet regularly .

No Pep, no Rodri, even Kovacic 

Wonder if Man City would like their 115 charges punishment this season?

I assumed man city would wait until they finish outside the top 4 and then take a 40 point punishment to leave them just above the relegation zone .

Boring Arsenal!

Charity Shield now becomes the fanstay shield, love the attempt at spreading a false sense of togetherness

Can't see City mounting a serious challenge this season, tbh. They've lost key core players, and what's left is a bunch of talented, but in some cases, overrated individuals. It will not be easy to knit them together into a title winning side again. I'm not sure Maresca is cabable of doing it.

I don’t think that he can either Des, things were going well at Chelsea then they were falling off and he left.

Just got in was the 3-0 a fair result. In the back of my head I am wondering if PEP is doing a SIR ALEX, could see the future and got out. Maybe an unfair comment after 1 game which I did not see,

no it wasn't a fair result, Arsenal should have won by more

Wow say maybe PEP knew.

City in shocker shock!

Calm down, calm down. This is merely a pre-season friendly and I absolutely wouldn't come to any conclusions about either team.

Arsenal looked like they'd been training a couple of weeks longer than City. They had 5 outfield players starting who weren't at the WC too whereas 9/10 of City's outfield players were, so they may have started back a little later.

Rodri is gone to Barca tonight. Jury still out on Anderson for me, still a question as to whether he can play in a top level possessionally dominant team. Even if he can it's still a big step down from Rodri.

No jury for me Anderson is so limited technically and he cant even travel with the ball like Rice.also for a big lump he isn't that strong or doesn't know how to use his body well, poor poor footballer for the money and certainly was one of the reasons England were so limited in the WC.

Arsenal won't play a softer defence this season.

replace the name RODRi with smith or jones and the dr at slade prison wouldnt pass him thropugh a medical ,with ther serious injuries RODRI,s had

Once players get to 30 many of them just don't recover so quickly.