1988 FA Charity Shield

1988 FA Charity Shield

The match programme cover
Liverpool Wimbledon 2 1
Date	20 August 1988
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	J Martin
Attendance	54,887

The 1988 FA Charity Shield was the 66th Charity Shield, a football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Football League and FA Cup competitions. The match was played on 20 August 1988 between 1987–88 Football League champions Liverpool and 1987–88 FA Cup winners Wimbledon.

The fixture was a rematch of previous season's FA Cup Final, and Liverpool gained some small revenge for that defeat with a 2–1 win, with both of their goals coming from John Aldridge – the player whose penalty in the FA Cup Final, three months earlier had been saved.^[1] However, the man who had saved his penalty – Wimbledon's goalkeeper Dave Beasant – had gone, transferred to Newcastle United in the close season, and his place for this game was taken by Simon Tracey.

Wimbledon had taken the lead in the 17th minute with a John Fashanu header from a Dennis Wise cross from the right. Liverpool equalized with John Aldridge scoring after 23 minutes. Wimbledon goalkeeper Simon Tracey had come out of the penalty box to clear the ball, but the ball was quickly passed to Aldridge from John Barnes who rolled the ball into the empty net from the edge of the penalty area. Liverpool took the lead after 69 minutes with Aldridge again scoring after a cross from John Barnes. Barnes had made a long run down the left and crossed to Aldridge who controlled the ball with his left leg before volleying with his right to the net.

20 August 1988

15:00

Liverpool	2–1	Wimbledon
Aldridge 23', 69'	Report	Fashanu 17'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 54,887

Referee: J Martin

Liverpool

Wimbledon

GK 1 Bruce Grobbelaar CB 2 Gary Gillespie LB 3 Barry Venison RB 4 Gary Ablett CM 5 Ronnie Whelan (c) CB 6 Alex Watson CF 7 Peter Beardsley CF 8 John Aldridge RM 9 Ray Houghton LM 10 John Barnes CM 11 Steve McMahon Substitutes: DF 12 Charlie Boyd DF 14 Steve Staunton MF 15 Jan Molby MF 16 Nigel Spackman GK 17 Mike Hooper Manager: Kenny Dalglish

GK 1 Simon Tracey RB 2 John Scales LB 3 Terry Phelan MF 4 Vaughan Ryan CB 5 Eric Young CB 6 Peter Cawley FW 7 Terry Gibson MF 8 Carlton Fairweather FW 9 John Fashanu CM 10 Lawrie Sanchez (c) MF 11 Dennis Wise Substitutes: DF Andy Clement MF Alan Cork FW Robbie Turner Manager: Bobby Gould

• Match report at LFCHistory.net Archived 26 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• The 1988 FA Charity Shield at worldfootball.net