Hamburg - Formula One driver Timo Glock believes there is a good chance of FIA ruling in favour of the diffusers being used by Williams, Brawn GP and his Toyota team. Motorsport's ruling body will hear the protests lodged by BMW- Sauber, Ferrari and Red Bull against the controversial designs on Tuesday in Paris.

"Three teams had the same idea. This shows that they believed it was legal from the start," Glock told the German ZDF national television network.

Hamburg - Bayern Munich, who were humbled 4-0 at Barcelona midweek in a Champions League game found back to their winning ways Saturday as they beat Eintracht Frankfurt 4-0 in a Bundesliga game. First half goals by Franck Ribery, Luca Toni and Lucio gave the home side a comfortable lead and Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger gave Bayern the victory that took them to second place in the table behind VfL Wolfsburg.

Hamburg - Forward Lukas Popolski faces grave consequences if he misbehaves in the Germany jersey again, coach Joachim Loew said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.

Loew told the Badische Zeitung daily that Podolski "lost a lot of sympathy" when he slapped captain Michael Ballack in the face during a heated argument between the two in the second half of last week's World Cup qualifier in Cardiff against wales.

Hamburg  - Barcelona handed out a 4-0 drubbing to Bayern Munich in their quarter-final first-leg Champions League clash Wednesday while Chelsea came from behind to stun Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield.

Lionel Messi netted a brace for the Spanish league leaders while Branislav Ivanovic also scored twice for Chelsea to leave both sides in a strong position ahead of next week's second-leg ties.

Barcelona struck twice in the first 15 minutes against Bayern at the Camp Nou as the German champions once again paid the price for their defensive frailties.

Hamburg - German cyclist Stefan Schumacher has lodged an appeal against a doping ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).

The CAS confirmed on Wednesday it received the according letter from Schumacher's lawyer Michael Lehner. A date for a hearing is yet to be announced.

Schumacher won two time trials at the 2008 Tour de France and wore the overall leader's yellow jersey for two days at the famed race before retests of his Tour samples in autumn revealed that he had used the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, known as CERA.

Hamburg - Calling all company car users and well-heeled family fathers - the all-new E-class from Mercedes-Benz is as solid and reliable as customers of this marque expect, with a host of clever electronic trickery and greener engines too.

The new limousine also goes a long way towards restoring the model's tarnished reputation for durability after some irksome quality control slip-ups in the past.