We thought it'd be appropriate to spend a few minutes of today to send our thoughts and prayers out to the families of Egypt's football tragedy last night. Contrary to popular beliefs, we all know that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death. Lives can't be taken away out of one's anger at the scoreline of a match.

How can fans mourn Speed but gloat about Hillsborough and Munich and why Torres deserves more stick than Carroll

Why the 22,376 empty seats at Manchester United on Wednesday were a glorious sight for true football fans Why Christmas has come early for Tottenham and a cure for any fan with a case of the Blues Football is always touched more than it expects when it loses one of its own.

How can fans mourn Speed but gloat about Hillsborough and Munich and why Torres deserves more stick than Carroll

Why the 22,376 empty seats at Manchester United on Wednesday were a glorious sight for true football fans Why Christmas has come early for Tottenham and a cure for any fan with a case of the Blues Football is always touched more than it expects when it loses one of its own.

Story Developing - According to The Associated Press, Togo's government released a statement on national television tonight confirming 28 critical injuries and 'at least six' deaths of players from the Etoile Filante team after a coach bus flipped over, fell down a ravine and caught fire.

Will the lessons of the deaths at the SEA Games Final be learnt? Check out my Jakarta Globe Column

To recap a game that will probably be ignored by the rest of the world.

• 120 minutes of pulsating football.
• a good referring performance
• a game played in good spirit by both teams
• an estimated 100,000 + fans in the stadium
• thousands more outside watching on big screen TVs
• 2 fans killed in crushes outside
• ticket boxes set on fire
• chaotic organisation
• Malaysia arrive and depart in armoured personnel carriers
• last penalty slips through Indonesia keeper's fingers
• heartbreak for Indonesia
• euphoria for Malaysia winning back to back SEA Games
• and all this for an Under 23 competition

Like I said, all that excitement will probably be ignored by the outside world, except perhaps the deaths, because South East Asia doesn't have its own football in their eyes.

A small section of idiotic, lowest common denominator Manchester United fans were up to their old tricks against during the Carling Cup game against Leeds United last night.According to the BBC match report for the game, United's fans were singing songs about the deaths of two Leeds fans in Istanbul in 2000:"The only black spot of the night from Manchester United, in fact, was the chanting by

By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Apr 15, 2011) US Soccer Players -- Twenty-two years ago today, 96 Liverpool supporters died at a neutral site FA Cup semifinal played at Hillsborough. Their deaths led to a reevaluation of stadium safety that included replacing terracing with seats and modern crowd control methods.

Indonesian Railways have rerouted and cancelled some trains ahead of Persib's game with Persija tomorrow.
They cite instances of damage caused by football fans using trains in the past to attend games and, in some instances, deaths when young fans have fallen from the roof of trains.
Shame.

Some things you can rely on. Like taxes, deaths, the arrogance of Malaysian taxi drivers, the ST whining.
After Malaysia won the plaudits for winning the AFF Cup, hot on the heels of the SEA Games, it seemed for a while the stuffed shirts at the Football Association had pushed off the back pages as the nation could luxuriate in success on the field.