1988 FA Charity Shield

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 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, and then took the lead after 69 minutes with Aldridge again scoring after a cross from John Barnes.

Match details

Liverpool v Wimbledon

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 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: GK 12 Mike Hooper FW 13 Charlie Boyd DF 14 Steve Staunton MF 15 Jan Molby MF 16 Nigel Spackman Manager: Kenny Dalglish

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

References

External links

• Match report at LFCHistory.net