Penalty shootout heartache – 1974
The 1974 Shield is best remembered for the dismissals of both Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan, in a feisty affair between Leeds United and Liverpool.
It was also, coincidentally, the first time the match took place at Wembley, with Brian Clough leading his Leeds players out of the tunnel during his ill-fated short reign at Elland Road.
Yet it was also marked a key point in Shield history, the first time the match was settled on a penalty shootout. This was also the first time a decent chunk of the watching television audience – and those inside Wembley – would have seen a penalty shootout, still a relatively new concept at the time.
In the end, Liverpool won the trophy after David Harvey missed Leeds’ sixth kick, after 11 other penalties were successfully converted. Bizarrely, the Shield then went back to being shared in the event of a draw after 90 minutes, until 1993 when shootouts were reintroduced.
The last two Community Shield fixtures have both been settled via a shootout – could we have another this year as Palace make their debut?