By Chris Wright

This is a real stinker to start the morning but, as was reported at half-time during last night's Final Score, 74 people are known to have died and at least 1,000 have been injured in a mass pitch invasion during the Egyptian league game between rival sides Al-Masry and Al Ahli in the city of Port Said.

Yes it was only QPR (nota bene, Chelski), and no one does not really like to brag – but by golly our lot could not have played with more swagger if they had purred around in Lamborghinis with Megan Fox in the passenger's seat and Snoop Dogg mixing cocktails in the back, while the stereo blared out Test Match Special.

I won't pretend to be a research doctorate in Annual General Meetings and their various intricacies. To be frank, I see it as a stage-managed social exercise conducted with an outer view to placate and appease supporters; but with most of the genuine concerns and queries being spin-doctored away by murmuring sweet nothings into said supporters' ears.

Frequent contributor and weekly recap writer Pedro Gomes comes off the bench to deliver a truly unique comparison between soccer and NCAA Football. The MLS Super Sub offers some striking similarities between the two. Pure genius or crazy weird, leave us your comments below or on twitter. Pedro can be found on Twitter @MLSSuperSub
Soccer and NCAA Football – The Odd Couple
"Hey are you pumped about football season starting soon?

A quick rundown of the moves over the last two weeks is pretty simple. Carlo Costly and Luiz Carmago signed. Yea, that's about it. Sad, I know. We all were hoping for something a bit more, but alas we have a FO that is reminiscent of early Houston Texans era -- lots of huff and puff, but nothing to actually blow the house down.

The second in this long running series begins with footysphere. A remarkable site that features a superb advert for Kevin Keegan slippers (1). <Insert your own I'd love it if I had a pair of them joke here>. This advert led us onto the magnificent French site The Vintage Football Club, that features amongst other things some holiday pics of a fully-bearded George Best (2).

By Chris Wright

Doubtless that the myriad sycophantic Barca-fluffers of this world will be lighting a content cigarette in bed this morning after waking up swaddled head-to-toe in a halo of fuzzy, post-coital afterglow Clive Tydlesley, we're looking at you.

When Ernie Walker was in charge of the SFA everything in the world was perfect.
Obviously it wasn't.
But when I were a lad and Ernie ruled the roost Scotland qualified for World Cups. All the time. Five qualifications in a row he presided over.
Ah, to be back in the day for just one shining moment of optimism.

Darron Gibson, who has been the subject of ridicule at times during his Manchester United career, has revealed he is hopeful of holding talks this summer over a new deal at the club. With just over 12 months left to run on his current deal with the league leaders, the Republic of Ireland youngster seems to be resisting calls from Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni to leave the club in search of a regular berth in the starting line-up of a decent team, with Gibson revealing that he sees his long-term future at United, quashing the workings of the Betfair Football rumour mill.

The Sounder at Heart crew has been spending the last few weeks poring over preseason reports, attending practices and trying to figure out the intricacies of MLS roster building. For the most part, we've been sharing our findings with you. But there are surely questions that you have that we haven't directly addressed, or not addressed in the exact way you wanted.

DOHA, Qatar With their graduation into Asia complete, the Socceroos are about to find out if they really belong at the top of the class. Having completed a full World Cup cycle since joining the confederation in 2006, Australia have become well versed in the intricacies of Asian football, leaving no room for excuses [.