Sigh.

First of all, the Arsenal Offside would like to place its thoughts to the victims from today's awful turn of events in Egypt. A truly disheartening experience. Some things are bigger than football, and this was definitely one of them.

Typical Arsenal. A few days after a great comeback victory, a victory that had the potential to help turn our season around and put us on the right track (granted, it was a poor Villa side), we draw against an insipid Bolton side that is currently languishing around the relegation zone.

Bienvenida a Friday Crackovia Club! This is where the best football sketch show in Catalonia gets its own personal space simply because you need to be reminded of how brilliant it is. This week, Cristiano Ronaldo gets all emotional at a press conference, where he later breaks into a song (channeling Sade, one of his favourite singers, perhaps?

Because nicknames are.... bad names, yeah? Footballers are often an unintelligent bunch, but occasionally they have sparks of innovation and create amusing nicknamesfor their peers. When this is cobined with the dry humour of fans and pundits, the results are impressive. Here are ten of the best from the Premier League: 10.

The new adidas adiZero F50 miCoach - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Is it a football boot? Is it a football boot with a brain? Or is it just adidas finally putting a microchip in their adiZero F50s?

Yes, no and of course. The new adidas adiZero F50 miCoach (165g, retails price starts at £200, out in November), thanks to a built-in microchip and tracking software available for your smartphone as well as an online portal, promises to enable both professional and amateur footballers to analyse their personal speed, distance and work rate.

Got Not Got Extract 1: When season tickets were made from... paper!

New book Got Not Got: The A-Z Of Lost Football Cultures, Treasures And Pleasures, by MirrorFootball contributors Derek Hammond and Gary Silke, is released later this month. Here's an exclusive extract ** Keep your cheap and nasty plastic!

Playing Away - Neville Gable's Photography Project On Goalposts From All Over The World

As part of the TateShots Collection, Neville Gable has been taking photos of perhaps the simplest, most universal ‘frame' to be found across the globe.

Innovation – Not Soccer – Is Headlining FIFA World Cup 2022 Business 2 Community In what began as a vision in its bid to FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup , Qatar's promise of new cooling technologies, carbon-neutral facilities and man-made clouds is slowly becoming reality. Last summer, the Showcase (pictured below) was built to show .

Having a new coach for the upcoming season surely gives a newfound spirit for Chelsea players, however according to their defender, Branislav Ivanovic, in order to get better result it will take more than Andre Villas-Boas' tactics.

According to Ivanovic, he and his teammates must also improve their showing especially in the middle through front line since last season, those areas are not as strong as the London team's back line.

Sigi Schmid tried something new with his team selection last night. Two smaller forwards were used in a pairing, the one who uses speed to create opportunities had the better game than the one who uses technique. In fact Mike Fucito had as many shots on goal than any other player but Osvaldo Alonso had even shots.