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       Community Shield 2022
       By: bmb Date: July 5, 2022, 8:21 am
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       Craig Pawson and his team of match officials have been appointed
       as the match referee for the 2022 FA Community Shield between
       Liverpool and Manchester City.
       This year's traditional season curtain-raiser between the
       winners of the Emirates FA Cup and the Premier League is being
       staged at the King Power Stadium in Leicester on Saturday 30
       July, with a kick-off time at 5pm BST.
       And after refereeing the Cup Final in May, which saw Liverpool
       beat Chelsea at Wembley Stadium, Pawson will now open the
       2022-23 season by taking charge of this game.
       The full team of officials for the match are now confirmed
       below:-
       Referee: Craig Pawson (Sheffield and Hallamshire FA)
       
       Assistant referees: Harry Lennard (Sussex FA) and Nick Hopton
       (Derbyshire FA)
       Fourth official: Darren England (Sheffield & Hallam FA)
       Reserve assistant referee: Tim Wood (Gloucestershire FA)
       VAR (Video assistant referee): John Brooks   (Leicestershire FA)
       Assistant VAR: Lee Betts (Norfolk FA)
       
       From the FA
  HTML https://www.thefa.com/news/2022/jul/05/fa-community-shield-match-officials-confirmed-20220507
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       Re: Community Shield 2022
       By: bmb Date: July 5, 2022, 8:42 am
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       Congratulations to Craig & his team [emoji122]
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       Re: Community Shield 2022
       By: TVOS Date: July 5, 2022, 3:22 pm
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       The FA need to realise that the season opens earlier that
       weekend.
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       Re: Community Shield 2022
       By: jacksamuel21 Date: July 5, 2022, 3:32 pm
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       Excellent appointment for Craig, Very happy with him for the
       game. Surprising to see him again though as he only just did the
       fa cup final and has already had a community shield final.
       Kavanagh for the EFL cup final and Tierney for the fa by guess
       for this season.
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       Re: Community Shield 2022
       By: bmb Date: July 5, 2022, 4:11 pm
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       Chris Kavanagh may have been slightly disadvantaged in terms of
       these appointments by being involved in the woman’s Euros
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       Re: Community Shield 2022
       By: DublinRef Date: July 6, 2022, 6:10 am
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       Congratulations to Craig and his team a slightly odd and
       unexpected appointment but a deserved one. Have many other
       referees done this game twice? Or directly after the FA cup
       final?
       Also interesting that John Brooks gets the VAR appointment
       having only done the job a handful of times.
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       Re: Community Shield 2022
       By: Readingfan Date: July 25, 2022, 7:32 am
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       [attach=1][quote author=DublinRef
       link=topic=3809.msg49975#msg49975 date=1657105841]
       Congratulations to Craig and his team a slightly odd and
       unexpected appointment but a deserved one. Have many other
       referees done this game twice? Or directly after the FA cup
       final?
       Also interesting that John Brooks gets the VAR appointment
       having only done the job a handful of times.
       [/quote]
       I think for a long time it was the case that a referee only did
       the Community Shield once, at least in my time following
       football. But I think there's been a couple of times recently
       where someone's got it a second time. I think Martin Atkinson
       might have got it again a few years ago?
       I'm not quite sure what you mean about Brooks as VAR. He has
       certainly done more than a handful of games in that role and I
       seem to recall he did plenty of big games as VAR towards the end
       of last season.
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