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<RCD ESPANYOL vs ATHLETIC CLUB

Día Domingo 11 Septiembre 2011
Hora 22:00
Lugar Estadio RCD<

Espanyol's first home match of the season is on Sunday night at 22.00!
Now on Sundays the last metro train from Cornella(end of the line)back into Barcelona leaves at midnight.That's tight if there's any added time at all since the ground is a good 10/15 minutes walk from the metro.It's absolutely useless for people like me who live out in the suburbs.Last FGC train to Sant Cugat from Barcelona leaves at 4 minutes past midnight!Looks like I'll be leaving the game at HT.:stunned:

 

[GrumpyBlue]

<RCD ESPANYOL vs ATHLETIC CLUB

Día Domingo 11 Septiembre 2011
Hora 22:00
Lugar Estadio RCD<

Espanyol's first home match of the season is on Sunday night at 22.00!
Now on Sundays the last metro train from Cornella(end of the line)back into Barcelona leaves at midnight.That's tight if there's any added time at all since the ground is a good 10/15 minutes walk from the metro.It's absolutely useless for people like me who live out in the suburbs.Last FGC train to Sant Cugat from Barcelona leaves at 4 minutes past midnight!Looks like I'll be leaving the game at HT.:stunned:

Thats what happens when you become a glory hunter :winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Thats what happens when you become a glory hunter :winking:

Yeah,if only I could see the game on Basque TV.:'(

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Thats what happens when you become a glory hunter :winking:

Shock.Horror.I got the time of the last Sunday night train back to SC wrong.It's actually at 12.30 so I was able to see Most of Espanyol's great 2-1 win, bar the last 10 minutes.:happy:

 

[Uncle Leo]

If you like Spanish football (I do) and like reading about football stadia (I do) then you'll like this site (I do).

http://estadiosdeespana.blogspot.com/2011/07/sevilla-estadio-benito-villamarin.html

Most main teams in Spain are covered here, but naturally I have linked straight to the mighty Betis.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Excellent win for Real Betis at Athletic Bilbao last night to take us joint top. If that performance was anything to go by, we'll be a great team to watch this season - attack attack attack.

Moving down the leagues, look at this beaut of a stadium

http://estadiosdeespana.blogspot.com/2011/09/palencia-estadio-nueva-balastera.html?spref=tw

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Excellent win for Real Betis at Athletic Bilbao last night to take us joint top. If that performance was anything to go by, we'll be a great team to watch this season - attack attack attack.

Moving down the leagues, look at this beaut of a stadium

http://estadiosdeespana.blogspot.com/2011/09/palencia-estadio-nueva-balastera.html?spref=tw

Ah but Espanyol's stadium at Cornellà is the most modern(and the newest) in Spain.

<RCDE Stadium Work Day By Day

INFORMATION
Officially inaugurated on the 2nd of august 2009, the Estadi del RCD Espanyol began developing in 2002, when the club decided to organize an international tender to choose a new setting. The winning project was the one by Mark Fenwick and Esteve Gasulla, who projected a stadium to hold 41.000 spectators between the municipal districts of Cornellà and El Prat de Llobregat.

That project has already come true and it is conceived as an element of creation of new infrastructures and interrelation among the citizens, following the criteria of new stadiums in Europe, with the inclusion of a recreational centre for all the family and several equipments beyond the sportive facilities.

The stadium is composed by two areas –the stands and the ring that surrounds them- and has a clear and strong design, with definite geometrics, and a facade conceived as a flying and translucent curtain with the club colors, which get illuminated at night.

The cover is filled with solar plates, which will produce a great energy saving, and it shelters all stadium but the corners.

RCD Espanyol farewells the Olympic Stadium stage to go back to a house of their own: a 4 stars stadium designed under a harmonic balance between functionality, economics and aesthetics, which has come true this 2009 and becomes the new home for the perico supporters.

TECHNICAL DATA
Grass pitch (105 x 68)
Capacity: 40.500 spectators
Stadium built on a piece of land of 36.000 m2
Solar panels of 0,5 MW on the cover
Stadium built under energy saving criteria
SERVICES
4 star-rated stadium
Vip Zones:
President Club; 271 seats
Executive Club: 36 boxes at the intermediate ring of the Presidential Stand
Corporate Club: 1200 seats distributed among the 2 ends and the side stand of the intermediate ring. VIP services for boxes and seats.
Facility parking with 3278 parking spaces
Stadium built under accessibility criteria for handicapped people.
27 bars
24 radio boxes and 133 press seats<

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Excellent win for Real Betis at Athletic Bilbao last night to take us joint top. If that performance was anything to go by, we'll be a great team to watch this season - attack attack attack.

Moving down the leagues, look at this beaut of a stadium

http://estadiosdeespana.blogspot.com/2011/09/palencia-estadio-nueva-balastera.html?spref=tw

Actually Bilbo aren't much cop.I saw them lose at Espanyol in a game where they should have nicked a point.I'll be suprised if Bielsa's still their manager at the end of the season.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Actually Bilbo aren't much cop.I saw them lose at Espanyol in a game where they should have nicked a point.I'll be suprised if Bielsa's still their manager at the end of the season.

They finished sixth last season, we were newly promoted. Not too many teams come away from San Mamés with three points (they've lost ten games there in the last two seasons) so even if things are looking a little dodgy for Athletic at the moment, that still stands as a very fine result for Betis as part of a very decent start to the new campaign.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

They finished sixth last season, we were newly promoted. Not too many teams come away from San Mamés with three points (they've lost ten games there in the last two seasons) so even if things are looking a little dodgy for Athletic at the moment, that still stands as a very fine result for Betis as part of a very decent start to the new campaign.

I would certainly agree about it being a good result and a decent start for Betis.Realisitically though, I don't see Bilbo reproducing their top six finish this season.Nor, incidentally do I expect Espanyol to finish much above mid-table-though hope springs eternal-starting with another home win against Getafe on Thursday night.:clap:

 

[Uncle Leo]

hope springs eternal

Which is what it's all about.

Looking forward to an entertaining game between Valencia and Barcelona tonight.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Say we are top of the league, say we are top of the league!

http://www.marca.com/estadisticas/futbol/primera/clasificacion.html

It won't last long, but I'll enjoy it while I can.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Say we are top of the league, say we are top of the league!

http://www.marca.com/estadisticas/futbol/primera/clasificacion.html

It won't last long, but I'll enjoy it while I can.

Four wins in 4 games is a great start but as you say it won't last.All I can say is thank God for Walter Pandiani(or Andy Pandy as a mate used to call him).Espanyol will struggle for goals and results until January(at least).
Gregorio Manzano looks good for the sack.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

<LIGA BBVA
RCD ESPANYOL vs REAL MADRID CF

Día Domingo 02 Octubre 2011
Hora 22:00
Lugar Estadio RCD<

Yet another dopey KO time.Some people have to work on Monday mornings.Of Espanyol's 3 home games so far, 2 have been at this ridiculous time of 2200 on a Sunday and the other at 20.00 last Thursday.Whatever ever happened to good old Sunday afternoon KO's at 5pm?Right, that was before TV took over wall to wall coverage of the game here and everywhere else.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just seen Bar$a beat Milan 3-2 at the San Siro on the box.Believe me(and I hate to say this)but they're some side and will take a lot of stopping in Europe this season(again).:stunned:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Bar$a did well last night.:sad:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Forget about Barca(till January anyway)Espanyol turned in their performance of the season(so far)last night beating Atlético 4-2.Wonderful game.Espanyol were 3-0 up after 18 minutes.They still need to bring in a goalscorer in,in the January sales.Rumour has it they're after someone from Ajax.Anyone know who?:unsure:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Glad nobobody's posted about Barça's World Club Championship victory against Santos yesterday.:zzzzz:
They'll lose their next league match though.:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

These are good times to be an Espanyol supporter.A great 4-2 win last night in the Copa del Rey against Celta which co-incidentally was the score in Espanyol's last home league game against Atlético Madrid.Sandwiched in between last weekend was an away win at Sporting.Barca are next up at Cornella in January(after the mid-winter break).:xmas4:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Octavos de final

Córdoba-Espanyol
Mirandés-Racing

Real Sociedad–Mallorca
Albacete-Athletic

R. Madrid-Málaga
FC Barcelona-CA Osasuna

Valencia-Sevilla
Alcorcón-Levante

Espanyol look a good bet to reach the final of the Copa del Rei on the basis of this draw.Assuming they beat Córdoba they'd play Racing in the last 8 and the winners of the next group of 4 in the SF.