Beckham Would Love To Return To Madrid

Former Manchester United and Real Madrid star David Beckham has revealed to Spanish newspaper Marca that he would love to return to Real Madrid in some capacity when he hangs up his boots.

Beckham who still has his property in Madrid, admits that he misses the food, light, colour and fun of Madrid and says he will always be a Real supporter wherever he goes.

He would like to return to be a member of staff with the club that he calls the best in the world.

Now what would Sir Alex say to that?!

Malaga Fall From Grace

Just back from La Rosaleda and what a shock it has been. Malaga were playing fifth place Hercules, who really have nothing to play before as they cannot reach the top three promotion spots.

Malaga started well and Hercules were struggling, they were all over the place as Malaga piled on the pressure. Malaga were two up inside half an hour and it looked like a walk in the park. Even when Hercules pulled one back, on a brief excursion into the home team half, they didnt look a threat and Malaga made it 3-1 at half time.

The second half and Hercules were a different team, they were in control and suddenly the chances came for them to draw level. The second from the penalty spot left Malaga with ten men as the offender was first yellow carded and then after continuing to abuse the ref was shown a red.

Hercules then ran rampant making it 6-3 before Malaga pulled one back on the final whistle.
Malaga started the day in 3rd, their lowest place all season, but it looks to me as though they could miss out on promotion, barring a minor miracle.

Malaga stay on top

On a cold evening at the Roselada, Malaga and Racing Ferrol managed to raise the temperature in the stadium, with a thrilling game. Both teams created chances throughout the first half and Malaga were unfortunate to trail by 2-0 at half time.

The second half was equally exciting with Malaga getting a goal back from the penalty spot, and the Hidalgo heading the equaliser just two minutes later. Malaga's third goal looked to be well offside, but the fourth was a lovely goal from substitute Peragon, wrapping up an excellent 4-2 victory.

Malaga Blue's

Malaga's excellent run of home wins came to a dramatic end today, at the Rosaleda stadium.
New league leaders, Numancia earned the three points beating Malaga 1-0.

Malaga paid the price for not scoring whilst dominating the first half, in the best game I have seen here all season. Two bicycle kicks and another acrobatic effort, were all gloriously mis kicked, when a more direct approach may have achieved a goal.

The second half saw Numancia get into the game and soon took the lead with a good old fashioned header, and looked the slightly better of the two teams by the end of the game.

The refereeing was pretty awful, but otherwise an excellent game, if not result.

Football Fixtures

The football fixture's in Spain, work a bit differently to the English league. While the fixtures are allocated at the start of the season, each game is given a weekend for each game. The exact date and day is not confirmed until normally five or six days before the game.

Even then its a safe bet to check on the day, before leaving home, as i found two weeks ago. The Malaga game had been scheduled for Sunday at 18.00 kick off. On the Saturday that was the information on both Malaga CF and the liga websites. When I checked on Sunday, the game had been move back an hour to 17.00!

Needless to say, that while we arrived knowing the revised timing, there were many latecomers throughout the first half. The game was allegedly re scheduled to avoid coverage of the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix, although finishing half hour after the race started didn't really help out much. Neither did showing the start of the grand prix on the screens in the ground, for fifteen minutes of the second half.

Football and music

I have not managed to keep up to date lately. I have been helping out a good friend setting up a couple of web blogs.

My two passions in life are football and music, and the sites that i have been working on cover just those subjects. Buzzin' Football is a blog that covers stuff from the English Premier League and Spanish la Liga mainly, but anything about Football is posted. Buzzin'Music is, well its about music surprisingly, and covers anything that fits that description.

If you know anyone who is interested in contributing to either of these blogs please get in touch.

I am still following Malaga CF, and have been fortunate enough to see all of their home games. They are currently top of the BBVA liga (=championship in uk) and have won all of the games at home, but lost the last two away games. They are one point ahead of second place Numancia, who they play on Sunday at home, so given this seasons home form, it should be a another win!

Soren

malaga football

Malaga CF have got off to a flying start in liga segunda, in Spain. They have won their first three games of the season and sit on top of the division. They are playing some very good football too and also look physically strong enough to do well.
Here are the goals from the fist game of the season against Salamanca. Three excellent goals:

Premiership or La Liga

Well, if week one of the premiership threw up some well anticipated excitement, week two never quite reached fever pitch. Unless of course you are a Spurs fan. The usual controversy followed Chelseas visit to Anfield and Man Utd somehow failed to score against a tactically naive City.
How refreshing for me living in Spain to watch the SuperCopa live on tv on sunday night.
Real Madrid the la liga champions took on Sevilla the cup winners and what a game it turned out to be. Both teams opting for all out attack and sensational entertainment that left me wondering why i bother with the premiership at all! It was Sevilla that took the honours in a 5-3 victory with ex West Ham man Freddie Kanute bagging a hat trick. It was however no pushover with end to end football all the way. Good to see Van Nistelroy back for Madrid, but it would be wrong to single out any single player from either side.
La Liga kicks offf this weekend and i cant wait!!