Rapid Vienna missed the chance to benefit from Red Bull Salzburg’s (RBS) mediocre performance. RBS only reached a 2-2 draw against Sturm Graz on Saturday. Rapid failed to beat FK Austria Vienna the next day (0-0). Ried defeated Mattersburg 2-0. The matches between FC Admira and Innsbruck (1-1) and Wiener Neustadt and Kapfenberg (0-0) ended […]
Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) face Wiener Neustadt in their fight to retain the Bundesliga leadership. RBS – who beat Kapfenberg away from home 1-0 last Saturday – host Peter Stöger’s team tomorrow (Weds). Former leaders Rapid Vienna will play against Wiener Neustadt. Mattersburg are up against Austria Vienna who are managed by former Austrian national […]
Kapfenberg have kept their chances to avoid being relegated alive. The Styrian club beat Wiener Neustadt in a match which had to be cancelled a few weeks ago when Austria was blanketed by snow. Defender Thomas Schönberger scored the only goal of the game in the 73rd minute. The Austrian Bundesliga will continue with four […]
Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) coach Ricardo Moniz is under enormous pressure after his team suffered a humiliating 2-4 defeat in Vienna yesterday (Sun). The Bulls stood no chance against 32-time league champs Rapid Vienna in front of 17,500 fans at the sold-out Gerhard Hanappi Stadium. Rapid were the better side from the very start. Looking […]
A 16-year-old groper from Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, sexually assaulted four women after his girlfriend left him. For a month the “grope phantom” kept Wiener Neustadt apprehensive, now the teenager is facing two and a half years in prison. Investigator Michael Heyderer said: “The youth is facing sexual assault charges in two cases and sexual […]
A 60-year-old was hospitalised after being trampled down by three horses. The woman wanted to lead the animals into a barn situated on a paddock near Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, yesterday afternoon (Thurs) when they suddenly bolted. She suffered injuries to head and chest. Only on Tuesday, a 72-year-old care home resident was seriously injured […]
A teenage convict had his jail term extended for writing threatening letters to the president.Michael D., who currently serves time behind bars in Gerasdorf near Vienna for various youth crimes, wrote to Federal President Heinz Fischer some months ago he “would love to torture you if there is enough time.”The 17-year-old warned the former Social […]
Football fans are bemoaning the death of a legendary coach.Ernst Weber passed away after he was hit by a train near Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria in unclear circumstances yesterday (Weds). Officials have not revealed any details regarding the fatal incident. It has been speculated that Weber committed suicide a claim police and the Austrian […]
A man killed his mum before committing suicide, police in Vienna said today (Weds).Officials announced that the bodies were found in puddles of blood in a flat in the Josefstadt district this afternoon. They said the man probably stabbed his mother with a knife, adding that more information would be given out later today or […]
Magna founder Frank Stronach has claimed his decision to withdraw from day to day decision-making will not have unpleasant effects on his home provinces “car cluster”.The 77-year-old businessman recently decided to accept a multi-million payout for losing his voting rights at the Austrian-Canadian car parts maker.Stronach reportedly received around 800 million Euros after accepting his […]