Persija finally recorded a victory against their nemesis but not for the first time a game between the two teams was marred by crowd trouble.
In 2007 during a Copa Indonesia semi final Persipura fans invaded the pitch through a single gate that was left open, ostensibly to escape from a tiny number of Persija fans who were attacking them.

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.

Fan violence in football can pave the way for devastating consequences sometimes and this was exactly what happened in Egypt last night. At least 73 people were killed after Al-Masry defeated Al-Ahly 3-1 at the Cairo stadium with more than 1,000 injured in the stampede.

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By Amy Eustace

"People just don't know how good Lucas is," prophesised Rafael Benitez, three years ago to the month. It was December 2008, and Liverpool had found themselves in a somewhat unfamiliar position by recent standards. Top of the table, ahead of the pack and with just one defeat for the first half of the season away to Spurs, the only problem was a smattering of frustrating draws.

It was only a tiny step forward, but those that have been campaigning for the return of terraces in the form of safe standing had a rare reason to be cheerful yesterday with an announcement from north of the border, that the Scottish Premier League is to trial a pilot that may see the return of standing at matches in the near future.

Guest blog: Deputy PM Nick Clegg backs the Mirror's Open Goal campaign for racial equality in football

When it comes to racial equality, football's progress is very similar to Britain's. Like the country, the game has come a long way in ­tackling racism in the last 30 years.

After twelve years, comes the return home. Enfield Town have been a going concern for more longer than a decade now, but today is the day that normality, perhaps, began to return to this particular corner of North London. They've already played a clutch of matches here a friendly to open the ground against a Tottenham Hotspur XI, a Middlesex Senior Cup match and a Ryman League Cup match but today sees the arrival of league football to The QE2 Stadium, which has already on account of its Donkey Lane postal address earned itself the nickname of "The Donkeydome.

So you;re at a football match somewhere in Indonesia. You buy your ticket and you kind a place in the stand or on the terraces and you mind your own business. You don't bother reading a programme cos there ain't one. You don't bother going to the toilets 'cos they're disgusting. You don't do much in fact 'cos there ain't much to do.

It was once the home of one of Australia's finest teams based in Sydney's southern suburbs, St. George Budapest (who later became St. George Saints), playing in Australia's then-leading professional division, the National Soccer League (they won the league in 1983). The club had a rich history, having supplied almost half of Australia's 1974 World Cup team.

George "Geordie" Armstrong died of a brain haemorrhage after collapsing on the training field 11 years ago on the first of this month. He was a year younger than me and joined the club as a 17-year-old, two years after I had first claimed my permanent place on the terraces as a 15-year-old. He was my first footballing idol and was to be associated with the club on and off for 39 years.

Steve Doughty of the Daily Mail recently wrote a piece that defies logic. In the wake of the allegations facing Louis Suarez and John Terry, his piece entitled "Football may not be perfect but it has come a long way since the 70's" He not only condones the racist abuse allegedly dished out by John Terry, he goes on to suggest that the victims should just get on with the game, for in his analysis ".

"Soccer attracts more hackneyed hyperbole than most sports. We talk about "tragedy" when we mean "disappointment" and "disaster" when we mean "defeat". When real tragedy and disaster occur, we tend to be stuck for the rights words." Those words, written by David Lacey of the Guardian a quarter of a century ago, ring as true today as they did when they were written in the aftermath of the Bradford fire of 1985.

By Chris Wright

"Dzeko's been purr tonight, very purr. Which reminds me, I hate kittens..."

Anyone who happened to listen to BBC Radio Five Live's coverage of Man City's clash against Villarreal will have probably turned off (as I did) around about the point that their insufferable, jowly curmudgeon-in-chief Alan Green added 'orchestrated fan displays' to the long, long list of piffling things he 'really hates' about football which came about five minutes before kick-off (a couple of minutes after he'd already taken the time to add the City fans themselves for having the temerity not to fill the completely fill the stadium on a Tuesday night).

By Chris Wright

Glentoran goalkeeping coach David McClelland came about as close to losing an eye as is humanly possibly when his contact lens was knocked out by a rogue firework that exploded in front of the dugout during his side's Irn-Bru League Cup tie with Portadown (a fixture you may well remember produced a storming goal from Matty Burrows last season) in Northern Ireland last night.

A mid-season tour of India was supposed to provide SteveKean with a bit of relief from the storm brewing among the terraces at EwoodPark.
Instead it has merely fuelled the fires, with a ‘Kean out'banner somehow making the journey to Asia with him and unfurled during afriendly and a third supporter protest planned upon his return.

In the build up to Denmark's vitally important qualifiers against Cyprus and Portugal, N.B-52 has joined a new club on loan in the Barclays Premiership Sunderland Afc, he's done well there thus far, getting his first goal on the weekend, and having 2 assists already in his name, one of them a fine assist cutting in from the left side before whipping in a telling cross for his Sunderland team-mate Elmohamody to head in, building up a telling partnership with Phillipe Sessegnon.

By Chris Wright

Yesterday's North London derby itself was a largely good-natured, entertaining affair (save for Bacary Sagna's unfortunate, inadvertent leg-break), with Kyle Walker scoring the victory for Tottenham sweeping a 25-yard winner past Wojciech Szzczccsczczzccesny with 17-minutes left to play.

By Chris Wright

Yesterday's North London derby itself was a largely good-natured, entertaining affair (save for Bacary Sagna's unfortunate, inadvertent leg-break), with Kyle Walker scoring the victory for Tottenham sweeping a 25-yard winner past Wojciech Szzczccsczczzccesny with 17-minutes left to play.

Why Torres abuse shows football fans now have the X Factor mentality

I loved standing on the terraces of the Stretford End and the Kippax in the 1970s and Eighties. I loved it for the anonymity you got from being part of the crowd. I loved it for the ­opportunity to become lost in the ­tribalism of the occasion.

Is there any other manager in world football who would have his name chanted on the terraces when his team are 3-0 down and reduced to nine men?
Around 70 minutes had gone on Sunday when Kenny Dalglish held his hand aloft to acknowledge the corner of White Hart Lane where hundreds of Reds supporters sang his name.

The game is underway, the action has reached a point of let's be honest, boredom. The Emirates crowd is hushed awaiting some excitement, it doesn't come, a player makes a mistake, groans cascade down towards the pitch, a young man stands up and with arms aloft sings "Arsenal, Arsenal Arsenal" at the top of his voice.

20,000 pople don't see botched clearance Bend it like Beckham, spin it like a Tory media flack. What's with the empty terraces when there's football like this going on? We don't know where it's from but the Arab teams responsible for this are probably happy to remain unknown in the wider world for now.

It never really got going properly this year anyway, but the end of August marks the beginning of the passing of summer into autumn, and this Bank Holiday weekend brings an extra round of non-league matches. In the Ryman League a round of derby matches has been scheduled for a day when there are no Premier League or Football League matches being played.

Malaysia will start allowing foreign players back in their league next season and the privately owned Sime Darby, no relation to Steve, have been busy looking at players in Indonesia. I reported a few days ago they were interested in Boas Solossa. Now it's the turn of Ahmad Bustomi, an early contender for the Jakarta Casual Player of the Year following consistent performances for club and country over the year.

No self-respecting football supporter would be seen without their team's 2011/12 shirt on the terraces this season. What's wrong with you? Don't love your club enough to spend 114 quid on a polyester nightmare?

Actually, kit design has improved immeasurably in recent years. Which is why it's a real pity that this year's offerings are beginning to show little signs that 1990s excess is starting to creep back in.

Should you pitch in with financial products that earn money for your club?

Football fans can now support their favourite team by opening a saving account that diverts a slice of the interest to the club or taking out a credit card in the colours of their heroes which helps fund their side's youth set-up.

What's the most important part of being a Town fan? What is it that sends you home with a smile on your face: win, lose, or draw? What made Leicester away so much fun despite the dismal score line?
The banter with the Town fans, that's what I believe, and it's time we send every other Championship fan home thinking the same.

In recent weeks the future of Nicklas Bendtner has widely been speculated about. Clubs from all over Europe have been linked with The Dane with the likes of Everton, Aston Villa, BVB (Borrusia Dortmund), Hamburg S.V and Sporting Lisbon all being mentioned, there is a very important decision to be made for the fleet footed striker.

By Chris Wright

Spotted during DC United's MLS tie with New England Revolution on Wednesday night, an entire section of DC fans the 'District Ultras' planking their collective asses off in the terraces at the RFK Stadium...

Not that it worked of course, as the Revs (who are pretty dire by all accounts) went on to end their nine-game winless streak with a 1-0 victory.

Written by Gooner in Exile

Some of you will know the above line as a lyric from a song. If any lyric could reflect my existence on this planet that is it. It has two meanings for me, one is in the middle of a music crowd, the most important is in the middle of the red and white army.

I was sad when Mr Flores left for China, he has so much skill - and then Bernie said Harry wasn't coming. Harry has a fair bit of skill too - although he may yet turn up.
I'm a Celtic fan and although Liam Miller (not so much skill) signed for former Rangers player Fergusons' Perth Glory I wasn't that happy about the stars of the new A-League season - albeit a long long way off.

Families of Hillsborough victims rejected any return to standing at football matches.
They spoke out as a public debate about the reintroduction of "safe" standing at football grounds in England went ahead in Liverpool last night.
The meeting was organized by the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF) at The Sandon pub, in Anfield.

The official attendance last night at the SLeague game between Woodlands Wellington and Home United was 711, a number drawn straight from JK Rawling's imagination. But the empty terraces didn't stop the MTV wanna be VJ treating the event like an end of term disco. The music was cranked up high with the kind of chunes spotty, gum chewing adolescences would hang against the wall looking cool to.

A funeral atmosphere last night at the Woodlands Stadium in the north of the island. A couple of years back Woodlands were known for a relatively raucous home support but judging by last night they all seem to have found new hobbies. Perhaps they go to night clubs to listen to loud music, hooked by their times on the terraces.

I've probably seen Bangkok Glass more than any other Thai team with the exception of Thai Port. Yet it could have been more. But, as it says on the tine, this site is a look at South East Asian football from the terraces. And the pub!

Last year I was in Singapore for the Cup Final. Bangkok Glass were up against Tampines Rovers and it promised to be a goodie.

Darren Bent firing over so disastrously at Wembley a fortnight ago will have provided Charlton Athletic fans with only minor consolation. But an alarmingly awful season on the pitch still does little to detract from the match day experience at the Valley. At a community club, those long years of crumbling terraces as the ground lay dormant in the Eighties are now banished to memory, and the new

In a recent interview, German national team captain Philip Lahm said that "An openly gay footballer would be exposed to abusive elements. For someone who does [come out], it would be very difficult."

Sadly, it is hard to argue with Lahm's conclusion, though it should be noted that there is now an openly gay footballer Anton Hysén, son of former Liverpool player Glenn Hysén (who coaches Anton's fourth division Swedish team, Utsiktens BK).

For many, many years, there were effectively no new football grounds built in Britain. Over the last quarter of a century, though dozens upon dozens of clubs have bulldozed their ancestral homes and moved on to pastures new. This summer, we hope to run a series of articles on the subject of Britain's lost football grounds, and we're starting this off with a repost from 2009 on the subject of Southbury Road, the late, lamented home of Enfield Football Club.

How many times do we read of the size of Mr Wenger's wage packet? Some have said that our leader benefits from the profitability of the club which they proclaim accounts for his penchant to buy small and his insistence of selling big. Thankfully, this nonsense has been rebutted and rarely raises it's ugly head, even in the most anti-AW sites.