Manchester United opens its season on Sunday, August 12 in the Football Associations Community Shield match against cross-town and bitter rivals Manchester City.
The Everton skipper also wants her team-mates to remember and learn from their last meeting in the Community Shield, when they slipped to a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in 2006.
Chelsea's 2012-13 season officially began when the Blues faced Manchester City on Aug. 12 in the FA. Community Shield, the annual curtain-raiser between English soccer's league champion and the FA Cup winner.
Ancelotti's team ended the last campaign as Premier League and FA Cup champions - inflicting home and away league defeats on United in the process, as well as winning the Community Shield.
It could be some time before a hearing is arranged as both clubs are on pre-season tours with United back to take on Portsmouth in the Premier League curtain-raiser, the Community Shield, on 10 August.
His side certainly went into the game in good form after winning the Turkish Super Cup - the equivalent of the Community Shield in England - and opening their league campaign with an away victory.
Overlooked by FIFA for those tournaments, Hawk-Eye -- which already provides ball-tracking systems for tennis and cricket -- will install its technology in 20 Premier League grounds and at Wembley, which will host August's Community Shield.
They triumphed on penalties to win the Community Shield in August after a 1-1 draw at Wembley and then, in Grant's first game in charge, Louis Saha and Carlos Tevez gave United a 2-0 victory at Old Trafford.
"We wanted to find out about one or two players but seven or eight of them played against Chelsea in the Community Shield, so we weren't short of players we needed to win the game, " added the United boss.
Even then they still managed to win the FA Cup in 2004 and the Carling Cup in 2006. (If we include the Community Shield there has only been four seasons since 1993 in which United has failed to hoist silverware).
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