Dear Austria (Tirol) Supporters club,

On behalf of the patients, parents and staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital, thank you for your generous donation of £110 that has been passed to us by Jill Smith at Arsenal. We are extremely grateful for your support and all your efforts, please do pass on my thanks to the whole supporters club and to everyone who supported you.

We are delighted to have been chosen as Arsenal’s Charity of the season for 09/10 and are looking forward to working with you over the rest of the season.  Arsenal’s support will help the hospital build a new lung function unit for children who have difficulty breathing or sleeping.  These problems can mean that children may not grow properly and the lung function unit is vitally important in their treatment. The new unit will be designed to help newborn babies right through to teenagers and will provide a modern and spacious environment in which to help children and their families.

Great Ormond Street Hospital treats many thousands of patients each year - children who are suffering from the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions. The NHS funds our day to day core activity but we need extra resources to deliver world class clinical care, research and staff training and this is where your support steps in.

We really appreciate the support and enthusiasm from all the supporters clubs and look forward to working with you for the remainder of the season.

Thank you again for your support, wishing you all the best with your fundraising.

With best wishes,

Joanna

Joanna Wallis

The board of the Tirol Gooners takes this opportunity of wishing our members, friends and visitors of our website a Happy and Healthy New Year 2010 !

Tirol Gooners want to pay the last respects to our mate:

 
EUGENE CONWAY
who died in the early morning hours after a long fight against cancer
(Monday 14th September 2009)
 
You have been a great mate to us and we will never forget you.
You will live in our hearts forever !!!!
 
We also want to send our condolences to his wife Cheryl and to both families.

The board of the Tirol Gooners takes this opportunity of wishing our members, friends and visitors of our website a Happy and Healthy New Year 2009 !

1. Platz      Weisses Ballett  7 points (goal difference: 3:1)

2. Platz      FC Vidrol I          6 points (goal difference: 8:3)

3. Platz      FC Vidrol II         4 points (goal difference: 2:2)

4. Platz      Clockend FC      0 points (goal difference: 2:9)

We would like to thank once again all attending members & friends, the crew of Gasthof Walter Stub'n and FC Vidrol for organising the football tournament.

Eviva Espania - UEFA Euro 2008 is over now. Spain with Arsenal superstar Cesc Fabregas played phantastic football and won their first major tournament since 1964. Members of the Tirol Gooners were able to visit Euro games and they made their mark in different public viewing areas. If you would like to watch some Euro impressions including chairman Paul & friends having some fun in Innsbruck just visit the Reports & Images area of our website!

Schedule: The meeting will start on Friday July 25^th at 5:00 p.m. with an official welcome through our officials and the presentation of our new crest. After that there will be a dinner at about 7.00 p.m. and a review of Tirol Gooners & friends following the Arsenal across Europe. The dinner on Friday will contain different soups as starter, traditional tyrolean spit roast suckling hog with dumplings & salad for main course, and ice cream for dessert. The price for the dinner is EUR 15,00 per person.

On Saturday 2:00 p.m. we’re planning a small field football tournament (5 players a side + goalkeeper). We will be able to offer BBQ, beer & prices and a big party in the evening.

We hope that our friends from England and the rest of Europe will be able to make available at least one team for the tournament. Please send us the relevant information to: info@tirolgooners.com

Congratulations to our members Barbara Bachinger & Markus Frey on the birth of Sophie Rosemarie on January 23rd 2008 !! Love from the the Committee of the Tirol Gooners !!

Perfect start to the festive fixtures: Emmanuel Adebayor put Arsenal ahead after 48 minutes in the north London derby from a Cesc Fabregas back-heel. Dimitar Berbatov powered home in the 66th minute, then Robbie Keane's penalty was saved by Manuel Almunia after Kolo Toure fouled the Bulgarian. Substitute Bendtner strode on after 76 minutes and turned in Fabregas' corner.

After this important victory we play Portsmouth at Fratton Park on Boxing Day, Everton at Goodison Park on December 29th and there will take place another derby game on Jannuary 1st, when West Ham Utd visit Emirates Stadium.

We take this opportunity of wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year with lots of Arsenal victories of course!

Tom

Arsenal will play Steaua Bucharest, Slavia Prague and either Sevilla or AEK Athens in the Group Stage of the Champions League.

Arsène Wenger's team will travel to Romania, the Czech Republic and either Spain or Greece after beating Czech champions Sparta Prague in the Third Qualifying Round.

Sevilla and AEK Athens have yet to complete their own qualifying tie. The second leg, scheduled for this week, was postponed due to the tragic death of Sevilla's Antonio Puerta on Tuesday. The second leg will now take place on Monday, September 3.

 FC Sevilla (Spain)
19/09/2007, Emirates Stadium
27/11/2007, Stadium Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán

Steaua Bukarest (Romania)
02/10/2007, Stadium Stadionul Ghencea
12/12/2007, Emirates Stadium

Slavia Prague (Czech Republic)
23/10/2007, Emirates Stadium
07/11/2007, Stadion Evžena Rošického

The committee of the Tirol Gooners would like to thank all the travelling Gooners (more than 30!) for visiting our pre-season-friendly at the Bulls Arena in Salzburg on July 25th.

Good news: after 3 months of boring holidays and meaningless friendlies the new season is going to start again on Sunday 12th, 12:00 GMT with the following game: Arsenal v Fulham

The second competitive game of the season will be the Champions League qualifier against Sparta Prague, played at Toyota Arena in Prague on August 15th. We enjoyed our last stay in Prague two years ago very much and we are excited to visit the capital of Czech Republic again!

We take this opportunity of wishing you a successful season 2007/2008 !

Our pre-season friendly on July 25th 2007 will be the first ever match to take place at the Bulls Arena in Salzburg with increased capacity (30.000 seaters):

Red Bull Salzburg v Arsenal FC

As most of our members are living pretty close to Salzburg we are expecting lots of Tirol Gooners to visit the match; all necessary information can be found at the official website:

http://www.arsenal.com/membership/article.asp?article=471866

If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us;

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we have been informed that 2 friendly games will take place in Austria this summer:

July 19th 2007
Arsenal v Genclerbirligi Ankara
Bad Waltersdorf

July 25th 2007
Arsenal v Red Bull Salzburg
Salzburg

Good news for all Austria based Gooners:

the website of IFCS (International Footballcamps Styria) is reporting that our stars will come back to Austria again this summer:

website: http://www.footballcampstyria.com/

Christmas time is a very special time in England: a lot of football games take place in a short period of time and not everybody in Europe is used to the dates: after our sensational performance against Blackburn Rovers (6:2) on Dez 23rd we play Watford away on Boxing day, Sheffield Utd away on Dez. 30th and Charlton Athletic at Emirates Stadium on Jan. 2nd.

We take this opportunity of wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year with lots of Arsenal victories of course!

Tom

Hello! We are proud to be able to present our brand-new website, which will be available from now on www.tirolgooners.com; thank you very much for visiting our site - we are looking forward to your response!

Felli / Tom / Paul, Paris 2006