Please help save my life..............

As some of you may be aware from the recent news post on the website, we are appealing to the Punjabi community to save the life of our 6 year old daughter Rianna Deol.

Little Rianna has bravely been fighting leukaemia since she was diagnosed two years ago, sadly she has recently relapsed and will only recover from this life threatening illness if we are able to find a compatible bone marrow donor in the next 4 months.

We have been told that we are most likely to be successful in our search by encouraging as many Asians as possible to join the register. This is because, Rianna is most likely to match someone with similar tissue to herself. Unfortunately at present, Asians are the most underrepresented group of people on the register. This is making it extremely difficult for us to find Rianna a donor. However, we know somebody out there will be her perfect match and it could even be you.

All you have to do in order to help, is join the register. This involves completing a quick form and giving a 4ml blood sample at any one of the clinics being held this Vaisakhi:

Saturday 12th April
The Arts Studio (Sports Hall), Khalsa Avenue, Gravesend
10am-2pm

Sunday 13th April
Dartford Gurdwara, 8 Highfields Road, Dartford
10am-2pm

Monday 14th April
Erith Gurdwara, 31 Mitchell Close, off Lower Road, Belvedere
5pm-8pm

We have not given up hope and still have faith that the Asian community will work together to get as many people to join the register and help save Rianna and others like her. If you are aged between 18-40 and of good health, please put yourselves in our position and find the time to support our appeal. With your help we hope Rianna will also be able to celebrate Vaisakhi for many years to come.

If you would like any more information, please contact me Ravi Deol on: 07773269917 or Ramandeep Bhatti on: 07917003595. You can also visit www.anthonynolan.org.uk

Thankyou
Deol Family

Guy Wins Top Award

The Kent Awards for Volunteering Excellence, organised by Kent County Council, are designed to thank people who have worked without pay to support their local community.

Guy Dale, who was nomminated for an award by Manjit Atwal, walked away with the Sports Development Award for Sport.

Guy has run the youth development section of Guru Nanak Football Club in Gravesend for 11 years. He travels the length and breadth of the country to take teams to various tournaments, and was praised for encouraging children from ethnic communities to join in.

WELL DONE GUY!

 

GNG Dinner & Dance 2007 Photos

All the photos from this year's Dinner & Dance can now be viewed by clicking on this link:

http://melaproductions.com/ggawards_2007.html

Enjoy!

Guru Nanak FC Annual Dinner and Dance @ Woodville Halls, Sat 3rd Nov 2007

A hugely enjoyable evening as always with an attendance of 450+ people.

The night was hosted by Avtar Kang (Ginger).

Entertainment acts on the night included Free Style footballers who amazed the audience with their set of football tricks.

Senior Awards

Saturday A Team Players Player of the Year - Ryan Robinson

Saturday A Team Managers Player of the Year - Daniel Jeffrey (DJ)

Sunday A Team Player of the Year - Moin Karim

Sunday B team - Hardev Dale

Tournament Player of the Year - Craig Gillam

Long Service Award - Barminder Bains (Shapey)

Clubman of the Year - Perminder Bains

Outstanding Contribution to Guru Nanak FC :-

Kelly Bains,

Mac Cheema,

Davinder Khun-khun,

Collete Mcdonach,

Brian Sangha,

Amrik Sall,

Jello Bains,

Colin Bassi

Outstanding Services to Guru Nanak :-

Surjit Atwal

Guy Dale

Youth Awards

Player of the Year

U7's - Hardeep Manu
U9's A - Umair Ashraf
U9's B - Joshua Cheesman
U10's - Arundeep Suman
U11's - Zubair Ashraf
U15's - Rajan Salhotra

Most Improved Player

U7's - Gurtej Jutte
U9's A - Daoud Khalid
U9's B - William Payne
U10's - Baltej Gill
U11's - Elliot Cordingley
U15's - Aaron Chahal

Top Goal Scorer

U7's - Harjit Samra - 35 Goals
U9's A - Umair Ashraf - 19 Goals
U9's B - Jude Musa-King - 9 Goals
U10's - Connor Clark - 31 Goals
U11's - Conor Halliwell
U15's - Harrison Bennett

Outstanding Player of the Year - Olinoor Ahmed

Jason Gill Award - Thomas Durling

Gurus Go Barking Mad!

Barking Youth Tournament 2007

It was another excellent Tournament for the Gurus this Saturday gone, this time in Barking.

We took up 5 teams to compete in 4 sections and made 3 of the Finals and 2 Semi Finals, eventually emerging winners in 2 sections.

Under 9’s and Under 10’s were excellent not losing a game throughout. Under 11’s were very unlucky just missing out on penalties in the Semi’s.

We entered 2 teams in the Under 16’s because there was not an under 15’s section, thought it would be a good experience for the lads to mix it with players a year above them. But they surprised everyone by advancing through the group stages. The A team finished second in their group and the B team won their group setting up an all GNG semi final clash, B advanced 1-0 but lost out in the Final.

2 of our players also picked up the Player of the Tournament Awards. Alex Failho (U 9’s) and Arun Suman (U 10’s) played fantastically.

Well done to the Players, Management Team Guy Dale, Bal Chattha, Jelo Bains, Indy Sanghera, Manjit Atwal, Paul, Narinder and Hardip Gill, and supporters for making it a memorable occasion.

The youth teams are in action again on Saturday in a tournament held at New Ash Green.

Also this weekend coming we have Hounslow Tournament where once again the Youth section will be competing on the Sunday – everyone is welcome to support.

The Senior First Team has been drawn against Smethwick Rangers – Last year’s Champions and holders, on the way they beat us in the A Section Semi’s….a perfect chance for revenge, 12:30pm kick off.

Under 9’s
Final GNG 2 – 1 Singh Sabha Barking
(Umair Ashraf, Jess Gill)

Player of the Tournament – Alex Failho

Under 10’s
Quarter-Final GNG 1 – 0 SS Barking
(Taran Shoker)

Semi-Final GNG 1 – 0 Soccer Skills
(Arun Suman)

Final GNG 2 – 0 Waltham Forest
(Arun Suman, George Drynan)

Player of the Tournament – Arun Suman

Under 11’s
Semi-Final GNG 1 – 1 Shield Academy B AET (0-2 pen Shoot-out)
(Connor Halliwell)

Under 16’s
Semi-Final GNG A 0 – 1 GNG B
(Ninny)

Final GNG B 1 – 2 ST Cedds B AET
(Nav Goraya)

Report By Jess Gill

Gurus Go To Wembley

On Friday 1st June, over 40 boys from the youth section enjoyed a great day out at the new Wembley Stadium.
As we all know the match between England and Brazil finished 1-1, but it was the fantastic stadium and atmosphere that really blew us all away!
They will be able to tell their grandchildren that they saw the very first full international at the new stadium.
Photos will appear in the archive section at a later date.

KFF Gravesend Tournament 2007

YES...............WE WON IT!
This was the first KFF Gravesend Tournament since 2001, and football finally came home in spectacular fashion.

For a complete dissection of the weekend's events, please email me at chattha@bigfoot.com. A complete report by Jess Gill will be forwarded to you. Once all the summer tournaments are finished, Jess’s reports will be uploaded to the website, in the Archive section.

Senior Team - A section
1st Round GNG 2-1 Sikh Hunters Walsall
Q-Final GNG 2-2 GNP Coventry (disqualified for breach of rules)
Semi-Final GNG 3-0 Punjab United Wolverhampton
Final GNG 4-3 Singh Sabha Hounslow AET

Senior Team - B section
1st Round GNG Res 1-0 Smethwick Rangers Res
Q-Final GNG Res 2-7 Singh Sabha Hounslow Res

Senior Team - D section (U18’s)
1st Round GNG 2-0 Smethwick
Q-Final GNG 3-1 Leicester
Semi-Final GNG 3-4 Khalsa Derby

Under 15’s
Knocked out in group stages

Under 11’s
Group – runners up
Semi-Final GNG 1-0 GAD Khalsa Derby AET
Final GNG 0-4 Mahal Warriors Birmingham

Under 9’s
Group - winners
Semi-Final GNG 3-1 Mahal Warriors Birmingham
Final GNG 2-0 Singh Sabha Birmingham

A fantastic achievement by the club…………….3 finals and 2 winners.