Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Community Shied – expect today's contest to be anything but a 'friendly'

There are lots of empty seats at Wembley right now, but let's hope that's just down to the corporate late lunches. The players are poised to make their entrance.

Reef are in full swing on stage at Wembley, and 'Put your hands up!' is the tune of choice with the players in the tunnel waiting to emerge...

The two benches for today: United: Subs: Lindegaard, Jones, Berbatov, Park, Rafael Da Silva, Evans, Cleverley /// City: Subs: Taylor, Wright-Phillips, Adam Johnson, Savic, Aguero, Barry, Clichy

If you look at the stats for today's match they favour a United win.

Paul Parker: 'Sunday's Community Shield is the most highly anticipated edition of the competition for a long, long time. There is a lot to be taken from the game for the two sides, who will be keen to strike a psychological blow at the outset of the campaign.'

Eurosport Yahoo!'s own 'Armchair Pundit' Alex Chick is at Wembley and will be tweeting his thoughts throughout the day. He has already had some strong words about the contents of today's match programme. Check out his Twitter page for more.

Manchester City: Hart; Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov; Y Toure, De Jong, Milner; Balotelli, Dzeko, Silva

Manchester United: De Gea; Smalling, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Nani, Carrick, Anderson, Young; Rooney, Welbeck.