Paul Dickov, Keith Curle and Kevin Campbell will be our guests on Matchday Live for the Community Shield.

Dickov and Curle will be providing the City analysis while former Arsenal striker Campbell will be offering expert opinion on our opponents.

Dickov is a hero for the sky blues and his star was at its brightest in the 1998/99 campaign.

He wore the iconic No.9 shirt and partnered Shaun Goater, scoring 16 goals in all competitions, the most important of which was his last goal of the campaign - a 15-yard, injury time equaliser against Gillingham, which helped send City on the path to promotion to the First Division.

Curle joined City in a club record £2.5m deal in August 1991 and helped the team finish fifth in his first season, 1991/92, under boss Peter Reid. The centre-half, who made three appearances for England and played at Euro 1992, went on to clock up 204 appearances for City over the course of five seasons before moving to Wolves.

Campbell, meanwhile, enjoyed a successful spell at Highbury, winning six major honours and hitting 46 goals across 146 league games.

He scored a hat-trick in the 1987/88 FA Youth Cup final triumph and also signed professional forms that season in February 1988.

Campbell helped Arsenal win the League Championship in 1990/91 and was also an integral figure as the Gunners won both the FA Cup and Coca-Cola Cup in 1993 and then the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1994.

MATCH PREVIEW | CITY V ARSENAL

The trio will be alongside host, Natalie Pike, for Matchday Live, which will begin shortly before team news arrives at 15:00 while City fans FG and Big Steve will be pitchside giving us a taste of the atmosphere.

During the game, Alistair Mann and Michael Brown will talk you through proceedings with our radio commentary offering.

Afterwards, we will bring you all the reaction before short highlights are live at 19:45.

Then extended highlights as well as a full-match replay on CITY+ and Recast – will be available from midnight.

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