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Congratulations to Craig and his team a slightly odd and unexpected appointment but a deserved one. Have many other referees done this game twice? Or directly after the FA cup final?
Also interesting that John Brooks gets the VAR appointment having only done the job a handful of times.
I think for a long time it was the case that a referee only did the Community Shield once, at least in my time following football. But I think there's been a couple of times recently where someone's got it a second time. I think Martin Atkinson might have got it again a few years ago?
I'm not quite sure what you mean about Brooks as VAR. He has certainly done more than a handful of games in that role and I seem to recall he did plenty of big games as VAR towards the end of last season.