Football and roads

The roads and rails might be a bit busy on your way home from work to the Southside tonight as several thousand Spaniards have descended upon Glasgow for the Uefa Cup Final at Hampden Park. The kick off is at 19:45 and so traffic will be tied up from 17:30 and then busy again around 22:00.

There's a lot of Spanish colour in the city today as the two teams of Espanyol (blue) and Sevilla (red) take part in dancing, singing and mock football matches. They've been in fine voice so far despite the rather depressing weather and its been fun to watch them wandering around, waving their flags and wearing a mixture of sombreros and fake kilts. I always enjoy when these big events come to Glasgow and hopefully we'll see plenty more if we win the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Its a shame that the display of colour and flag waving can't be replicated by our own local teams without it starting a riot.

Tickets for the game have been like gold dust but we have managed to track down a couple of reporters who will be taking photos for us and giving us the inside scoop tomorrow. We'd also like to hear from people from Mount Florida to tell us what its like living beside these kind of events.

Edit: A very enjoyable match - with Sevilla just sneaking it on penalties. Here are the photos from our inside reporters who I believe may have been enjoying a beverage or two with the Spaniards all afternoon.