Premier All Stars game for shield not a bad idea. But so many different ideas. Taken from Rios Twitter page: 1) League Champions vs Prem All Stars
2) Prem All Stars vs Championship All Stars
Or what Rooney suggestes on his Twitter account. 3) North AS vs South AS

i think that would be a really good idea , but can we really see something like this coming off ... burnage red

Ya.. It's a good idea. To increase the popularity of the game and encourage fans worldwide.

You and your restaurants, beepsie-boopsae journal, rap music something, tweets, and now this.

Better concentrate on winning the Community Shield and get your back straightened out Mr. Tumbo-mumbo Ferdinand.

Scholes should kick your basic bum. "Star" indeed! The Tiddlee Widdlee.

-- Apologies folks for this outburst, but this chap gets up my nose with all his antics! What is it I wonder, the money that MU pays is not enough for his sorry life to retire on?

I would suggest that it is already an "all star" game with the Champions taking part.
Although it will be tainted in August with the comedy club playing...it normally involves 2 top teams.
The Community Shield( ex Charity Shield) is one of the few remaining traditions the game has and I would be annoyed if it were reduced to an ego type kick about.
I would tinker with the holding of the game at Wembley though...when the FA Cup finals were played at Cardiff..it was the opinion of most fans that they were a great success,with the opportunity of ripping off supporters vastly reduced. After all,until the mid '70's,the games used to be played at the home of the previous seasons champions.

Wembley - Sunday ** August 20** K.O. 3:00pm

Premier League All-Stars .v. Whom? (P.L. Champions, F.A Cup Winners, Carling Cup Winners?????????

Box Office disaster me thinks

Not an all star game..... Which version of the "All Stars" are we going to get? Juat an all star game? or do we get the all star weekend? With Saturday seeing a skills contest, a reserve all star match and then the big game on the Sunday?

We in the UK have never really been big on All Star games as a concept, like those in North America. The concept can work, and of course we could cancel the event should it clash with a World Cup or European Chamionships, thus giving the players a decent rest. Do we follow the North American model of moving the game around the country? Letting fans vote on a certain amount of players or having someone select them instead with limits on how many can be called from one team?

The FA are so set in the ways that it's going to be impossible to break the idea of the Community Shield being at Wembley. Still if they want to try it, let them, but I can't see it happening to be honest.

Manchester vs London!!!

Thats not a bad idea at all.
It then means the PL starts without a hellover lot of tension !
or north vs south , good ideas mate

What a stupid idea

A great idea, certainly generates good money!

Is it really such a bad idea?? Have you not noticed that we are becoming more 'american' with how we do things over here? we are so far behind in how we do sports not only behind the US but in our own backyard too (Europe).

Yes the all-star concept is from baseball and basketball, but if you look at the concept and not the players or clubs, it can work. A country like the US, how many times bigger than our little island, can muster up all-star tournaments year in year out, and we can't??

For me, i've always wanted this for Basketball here in the UK. Manchester Magic in 20010/2011 season won U13/14/15/16 titles demonstrating just how strong the sporting force is hereup north (U13s and U14s remain undefeated all season), but still, what happens (and continues to happen) after the Final Fours? nothing. i've always thought England Basketball should think up an All-stars game/weekend for England Basketball to celebrate the thousands of talented elite athletes basketball has here in England (not just in Manchester!)

A north Vs South would work, but i wouldn't suggest Manchester United vs EPL All Stars because that defeats the All-star concept. Yes united are stars in their own right but an All-star game/weekend is a celebration of ALL stars, not just one club.

@Katmandu, get over Rio and whatever antics he gets upto - that's his business not yours. Support your club!!

Red Army for life! Manchester Magic AND Mystics to conquer EBL all over again this coming season!

I don't mind the idea of an All-Stars game but not as a replacement for the Community Shield. I'd play it in the mid-Winter break and play it overseas. There'd be lots of warm countries willing to fund it.

How you constitute the teams would be the problematic part. Maybe British vs Foreign players? Maybe North vs South? But any way you do it it's more contrived than the American system. Maybe you could decide the two managers by who wins the League and the FA Cup and let them choose lots from a pool of players voted for by the public or by the players themselves.

It could work.

Only problem would be that 75% of the two sides would be United players.