- Bill Shankly's final game in charge of Liverpool. He announced his departure from Liverpool on 12 July but Paisley didn't take officially over until 13 August.
Kevin Keegan and Leeds United's Billy Bremner were dismissed after an hour's play. It was Keegan's second sending off in the week as he had been sent off in a friendly at Kaiserlautern four days earlier. Both he and Bremner received lengthy bans. It was probably the nastiest Charity Shield match ever played and the only surprise was that more players didn't join them for an early bath!
- Strangely enough Boersma wore the number 12 shirt from the start with nobody wearing the number 10. For Leeds, nobody was wearing the number 11 as Eddie Gray was wearing 12.
