Schumi in Barcelona Ferrari test

Ferrari legend, Michael Schumacher is set to dust down his overalls, to test the latest Ferrari at Barcelona next week. Ferrari want to tap into the 38-year-old's experience of F1 cars without electronic driver aids ahead of the ban on such systems for next year.

Schumacher who retired from Formula 1 at the end of 2006, has no intentions of making a comeback and is testing as part of his contractual obligations as Ferrari technical adviser.

Schumacher will test on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Circuit de Catalunya. He has been in Spain already this last weekend at the Valencia circuit for the Moto GP, where he demonstrated his skills on two wheels, by riding Casey Stoner's title winning Ducati, after the end of the Moto GP season.

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.

Starstruck in Barcelona

Woody Allen recently began shooting his new film in Barcelona. The film as yet untitled will be shot over seven weeks in Barcelona, Asturias and New York.

The New York directors presence in the city has however provoked a real confrontation in the Barcelona City council's commission of Culture, Education and Social Health.

PP representative Angels Esteller has stated that the municipal government team, has made a spectacle of the shooting and they are elbowing each other to photograph themselves with the American Director.

Hope the film is as amusing.

Dead Day

Today is a bank holiday in Spain. It is All Saints Day, a day for remembering loved one's that have passed on. An English acquaintance refers to it as "Dead Day".

All this last week, trestle table's full of flowers have appeared on the roadsides of, villages and towns, along with droves of little old ladies ready to purchase.
Then later in the day the little old ladies can be seen heading for the cemeteries, beautiful flowers in one hand and a step ladder under the other arm.

Here, the coffins are put into a wall and are stacked, one on top of the other and can be 2 metres high, so that's why the step ladders.

Soren

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: