The New Paper, 24 December 2003

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  • 32 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2003 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 LI the new paper
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    • 58 1 DETAINED S'POREAN YOUTHS WERE BEING GROOMED AS FUTURE Jl BRAIN BRAWN 10 >DC CIMftADADD Devils backlash? Arsenal fear Rio ban could spur Man U But local coaches say... 3D i 200 look on as gang of 8 attacks woman in China disco 4s. i mm s Victim chases attackers in
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    • 25 1 Merry Christmas! We take a break tomorrow but look out for our SPECIAL EDITION on Dec 26 (No publication of The Straits Times that day)
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 627 2 CHINA DISCO RAPE 8 attack woman as 200 watch TWO hundred pairs of eyes could have witnessed this shocking crime. But not one hand was lifted to help a woman being held down and raped in plain sight at a disco in Zhuhai, China. And when
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    • 600 3  -  By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph.com.sg SOMETHING is brewing in the coffeeshop business but the "Kopitiam King" is keeping a lid on things. Mr Lim Bee Huat has leased out his million-dollar coffeeshop at Bishan to a supermarket operator. He said the new supermarket will
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    • 543 4  -  Say kids from Children's Home out 5 1 2 days a week selling charity coupons REPORTS AND PICTURE By AzharGhani Azhar Ghani tnp@sph.com.sg HE didn't have much of a sales pitch. Somebody should have told him that merely thrusting a
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    • 223 4 THE home explained why it was getting such young children involved in fUnd raising at public places. Mr Shariff said: "It will make them feel good about themselves. "They are encouraged to look beyond their own problems and see what they can contribute to
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    • 59 2 Clarification Laos star fails dope test (TOP, Dec 9): Our article, based on a news agency report, said the Laotian bodybuilder, Liam Sayrath, also didn't pass the weigh-in. The Singapore Bodybuilders' Federation has pointed out that he did pass the weigh-in, but withdrew after he suffered cramps on stage. What's
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  • 414 6  -  SINGAPORE An extremely happy 5-year-old from a Children's Home on getting a beanie baby toy By Erwin Chan erwinc@sph.com.sg WHO says Jurong BirdPark is just a place for the birds? The staff there can play Santa too. Delivering gifts to kids from other kids.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 515 8  -  By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg SWAYING palm trees, crystal-clear blue water and a rich community of egrets, kingfishers and the occasional dolphin in a world of their own. You would think this is an exclusive island off the Bahamas or the beautiful Maldives where the rich and
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    • 261 9 CAN the island be turned into one big residential estate? Just think about the potential, especially when you consider that the up-and-coming Sentosa Cove waterfront housing district will have about 2,600 homes on mostly reclaimed land on the eastern stretch of the island. The
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    • 79 9 ABOUT 1,450 tonnes of incineration ash and another 550 tonnes of waste that cannot be burnt are disposed of and levelled at this landfill daily. TTie incinerable wastes are burnt in the incinerator plants. Their ashes then are carried by barges along with other rubbish that
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    • 644 10  -  One was brain, the other brawn May have met Osama Bin Laden Terrorists were their role models Were told to set up cells By Melvin Singh melvin@sph.com.sg ONE was the brain and the other, the brawn. The Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) had different
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    • 84 10 FOUR of five Malaysian students being detained for their involvement with the JI cell have relatives in prison too: Eddy Erman Shahime, 19. His father has been detained since 2001. Mohamad Akil Abdul Raof, 21. His brother has been detained since 2001. Mohamad Ikhwan Abdullah, 19.
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    • 139 10 HAMBALI'S plan was for the students to return home by 2006 to take up their "jihadist" mission. A natural source of potential recruits would be their old classmates from Lukmanul Haqiem, and family members. This is typical of JTs recruitment methods. In an interview with BBC
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    • 101 11 Look out for these goodies in the Boxing Day edition of The New Paper on Dec 26: /Find out how you can get a free limited edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King graphics poster (below) /Win McDonald's Golden Treasures
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    • 107 8 GCE 'O' LEVEL EXAM FULLTIME PROGRAMME JC Polytechnic Dedicated and experienced lecturers Ongoing enrichment programme Commencing date: 5 January 2004 11 months programme Student pass for foreigners Other Courses Available Diploma in Business Administration, Information System, Computer Science, Tourism Hospitality from La Trobe University NITEC in Nursing NITEC in Food
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  • 410 13 S'POREAN ROBBED AT GUNPOINT WHILE HAVING LUNCH IN JOHOR NEWS COOLY, the gunman walked up, unloaded bullets from his handgun, and showed them to him. "My friend, this is a real gun, don't fool around!" he warned. The Singaporean factory owner who
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  • WORLD
    • 636 15 Boys burn building 'not knowing' it contains George Bush Sr's boat engine SHE was told by US federal agents that the incident had raised "national security concerns". That her son and his accomplice had "blown up the (ex-US) President's boat" in
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    • 297 16 Law may be changed to protect property rights AP. CHINA'S communist leaders have given the okay to what has never been a communist notion private property. After months of debate, party leaders submitted a proposal for a constitutional amendment to the National People's Congress
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    • 358 17 101-day kidnap ordeal ends in Colombia ON Monday, Mark Henderson, a British television producer, held hostage in the Colombian jungle since September, was finally freed in time to spend Christmas with his family in England. The Scotsman reported that Mr Henderson, 32, faced hunger, isolation and
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    • 302 18 Hasan Mahsum the key figure in unrest in Xinjiang region Arrested in 1993 over terror spree After 're-education', he fled China in 1997 ONE OF China's most wanted men, Hasan Mahsum, was killed in Pakistan during a raid by the Pakistan armed
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    • 460 19  -  Car clocked at 199kmh before accident IN TAIWAN By Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg THE four friends were barely out of their teens and had planned a night out on the town. But as they headed out for the nightlife in their rental car, they were
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    321 21 Aussie tennis champ proposes to Belgium star on romantic cruise WORLD THE professional tennis circuit has served up another winning doubles combination in love. Aussie Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt proposed to world women's No 2 Kim Clijsters from Belgium on Tuesday, reported The Daily Telegraph. Hewitt, 22, took
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  • 310 24 Brother died of same illness last week WORLD AP. HIS is a family that has been afflicted by one tragedy after another. One daughter was killed in an accident 14 years ago. His brother died of the same debilitating illness he suffers from just
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    • 186 25 When his family Ronn he was to tap water when he was hungry, because he had no money for food. W 1H r W V Thankfully, The Straits Times School \1 W^tF 1 Pocket Money Fund has helped Ronn and 1 ii > -~JjB his 8-year-old brother Jinzi. Both have
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 235 26 Figure up from 1998 Remember this report we carried on Sunday about how Singaporeans are still digging deep into their pockets to give to the needy? There are now figures to show that Singaporeans are indeed not an uncaring lot. According to the taxman,
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    • 48 26 S'POWE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (doseinUSs/Change) Pacific Internet 7.40/+0.28 IOIS/Vll' Rextronics 14.77/+0.02 Chartered Semiconductor 9.30/+0.02 Stats 11.76/-0.04 Yesterday's Percentage r| action change Dow Up 0.03% (3.26 pts) 10,341.26 Nasdaq Up 0.97% (18.98 pts) 1,974.78 S+P 500 Up 0.28% (3.08 pts) 1,096.02 sn Down 0.09% (1.57 pts) 1,720.92
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    • 140 26 THE wife of the Lee Foundation's chairman paid the most for a bungalow parcel on Sentosa Cove, reported TTie Business Times. Dr Delia Suantio Lee (right) is married to Mr Lee Seng Gee, the foundation's chairman and the eldest son of the late China-born philanthropist Lee
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    • 80 26 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will meet Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong here on Jan 12 as part of an Asean tour. It will be his first visit here since becoming Prime Minister and he is expected to discuss how to strengthen bilateral ties,
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    • 64 26 NON-CONSTITUENCY MP Steve Chia has quit as secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party (NSP) and as vice-chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party. He is coping with allegations that he had outraged the modesty of his Indonesian maid when he took sexy pictures of her. He won't
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    • 65 26 TEN labourers from Myanmar and a lounge hostess from China were caught by the police swimming into Singapore in three separate incidents during the past fortnight. They were spotted using night vision cameras. They each paid $480 for a 2km boat ride from the Johor coastline to
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    • 73 26 HE claimed he was deaf in one ear, blind in one eye, and paralysed in one arm after a fall at work, and filed a multi-million dollar raft of accident insurance claims. But it runs out that manager Lee Siow Hua's medical records showed he had suffered
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    • 71 26 A CLASH of styles with chief executive Tan Kin Lian has apparently led to the departure of one of NTUC Income's general managers after just five months. Briton Peter Monksfield, 46, who was in charge of overseas business development, joined NTUC Income in mid-July. His departure is
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    • 71 26 PUBLIC transport services will be extended beyond normal operating hours on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. The last train will leave Orchard MRT Station at lam on both Christmas and New Year's Day and the last train on the North-East Line will depart from Dhoby
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous

  • TECH
    • 720 27  -  By Tan Ooi Boon ooiboon@sph. com.sg IF there's one thing that game creators have done right, it's their move to tie in their products with blockbuster movies. Take The Lord Of The Rings (LOTR) for instance. The first two instalments
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    • 117 27 HERE'S your chance to win a free Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King game from Xbox. This game has a superb soundtrack from the movie and incredible very life-like graphics of the characters. To take part in this contest, all you need to
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    • 369 28  -  And takes the right shots TECH GAL DAWN CHIA ITS virtually impossible to find a non-multimedia-enabled handphone these days. Integrated digital camera, video recorder, MMS, wireless connectivity... you name it, it's there. Such technology, though exciting, has never been enough to make me
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    • 496 41  -  REN CI CHARITY SHOW REHEARSALS By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph.com. sg GIVE till it hurts that was literally what happened during rehearsals for the Ren Ci Charity Show item, The Stomping Beauties. MediaWorks stars Lynn Poh, Constance Song, Evelyn Tan, Eelyn Kok, Apple Hong and Ann
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    • 545 42  -  By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg ONCE, they were bright-eyed extras who preened and posed for 15 minutes of fame. Now they are stars-in-the-making in the new season of the award-winning teen drama Anak Metropolitan. Meet Dawn Prima Ria and Hadi Putera (right). Their roles as lovers
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    • 90 42 TO become a "better actor", Hadi toiled behind the scenes. For six months, he helped adjust the lights on the set of Channel 8 dramas like Holland V and Home In Toa Payoh. Apart from the technical know-how like "favouring" the camera (facing the lens
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    • 147 43 BOLLYWOOD stars are playing unofficial peace envoys for India. The Times of India reported that a flurry of stars visited Pakistan in the last few months. Like Urmila Matondkar (right), Suniel Shetty, Pooja Bhatt and filmmakers Saawan Kumar Tak and Mukesh Bhatt. The report
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    • 122 43 WHO is the hottest Bollywood box-office couple? India's Economic Times reports that going by box-office collections, it's Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol (above). Over the last 10 years, their on-screen coupling amassed over 25 billion rupees ($94 million). Their biggest grossing hit was Dilwale Dulhaniya
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  • RACING
    • 598 52 WORKOUTS by horses handicapped on Friday: CLASS 1 1,400 m: Seasoned campaigner Pacific Prince (A Ng) 37.3, beating Angel Of Joy (C Ang, Open Benchmark 811,200 m) by five lengths. Sky Frontier canter/39.5. Titan Smile (J Lloyd), winner of his last two starts, canter/36.5,
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    • 251 52 RESULTS of three barrier trials conducted over I,OOOm on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Impulse Connection (J Lloyd) 2 Whatmore (M Blancpain) 3 Blue Boy (V Kumar) 4 Pacific Chief (M Hairin). Unofficial margins and time: IV*, shd, V 4 (lmin
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    • 243 52 CHAMPION trainer Charles Leek will be sending out two newcomers for the season-ending meeting at Kranji on Friday night. Superb Winner is a five-year-old gelding by Last Tycoon out of So And So. The bay Australian-bred raced 13 times as Senor Skase back home for a
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    • 243 52  -  By Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR trainer K Velu's career is as good as over. Last Monday, the 57-year-old former jockey was disqualified three years and fined RM20.000 ($9,000) by the Selangor Turf Club's stipendiary stewards. He was found guilty of four
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    • 785 53 ALL SELECTIONS BY DANNY KHOO -1«00m HBBHHBK Stakes RM25,000 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 *****1 PROSPEROUS COUNT 57 (45) *HKLimc3 3 (6ag Khoo-Prosperous) 2 2-4-0- MY GEM 56 (43)
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    • 291 53 NST. OPPOSING FORCE drew attention to his chances in the Yang Di-Pertua Negeri Gold Cup over 2,200 m on Sunday with a sizzling workout yesterday. Taken out by Salee Saad, the seven-year-old Jetball gelding thrashed several unnumbered horses in a barrier practice and covered the final
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      • 93 53 CHRISTMAS came early for one lucky punter at Kranji last Sunday. A cool $96,647 was what he collected from his tierce bet after Romantic Scholar, Baby Istana and Electro finished in that order in the opening race at Penang. Potentially, a bigger windfall could be
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      • 160 53 WHEN you're hot, you're hot! That aptly describes The New Paper's Best Bet column. Last Friday night at Kranji, we got it right with the Don Baertschiger-trained Award Winner, who paid $14 for a win. We went close with U Can
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      • 156 53 RACE-GOERS have certainly been impressed with the progress of the Stephen Gray-trained Lord Of The Rings. After all, the four-year-old Lord Ballina gelding has already notched three straight wins sandwiched between two seconds from only five starts. One race-goer shared an interesting
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  • SPORTS
    • 586 54 PA Sport. GERARD Houllier (left) has defiantly smiled his way through his worst spell as Liverpool manager as the pressure and the criticism have mounted over recent weeks. But he has been able to reveal that one of his seven injured stars is set for
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    • 384 54 PA Sport. KEVIN KEEGAN has insisted he has no intention of quitting Manchester City. Speculation that Keegan was about to walk away from the Blues has been growing in recent weeks as his side staggered through an alarming dip in form. Monday's 1-1 draw with Leeds
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    • 437 55  -  CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE By! Luke Pachymuthu npsports@sph.com.sg MANCHESTER United will not win the Premiership title this season. That's the verdict from two local coaches The New Paper spoke to. Geylang United coach, Scott ODonell, reckons Arsenal will be crowned Premiership champions this season. He said: M 1
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    • 313 55 ®M Dec 26: Everton (home) Dec 28: Boro (away) Jan 7: Bolton (a) Jan 10: Newcastle (h) i Jan 17: Wolves (a) Jan 31: Southampton (h) i Feb 7: Everton (a) Feb 11: Boro (h) Feb 21: Leeds (h) Feb 28: Fulham (a) Mar 13: Man City (a)
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    • 417 55 PA Sport. MAN United have a better chance now. So says Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger of the championship chase. This is because of what he refers to as Manchester United's siege mentality because of their shared grievance at Rio Ferdinand's eight-month ban. The squad spirit at
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    • 1143 56 AtrixitetoMan United. THE CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United have surprisingly edged out a flamboyant Arsenal and big-spending Chelsea to head the Premiership table going into Christmas. The New Paper plots The Red Devils' rise over the past 17 games. aug16 Man Utd 4 Bolton
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    • 649 57 BBC, PA Sport, Wire Services WITH Christmas in the air, we take a look at what some managers want in that proverbial sock over the fireplace. Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has the moolah to boost his Champions League
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    • 273 57 PA Sport. FULHAM manager Chris Coleman has insisted his prized striker Louis Saha is going nowhere, saying: "He'll be sold over my dead body." The Cottagers released a statement yesterday revealing that several clubs have made an approach for Saha, with Manchester United thought to
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    • 214 57 PA Sport, BBC. MANCHESTER UNITED manager Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed he expects striker Ruud van Nistelrooy to sign a new contract in the near future. Real Madrid have been casting admiring glances at the free-scoring Dutchman, who took his United tally to 97 in
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    • 255 57 PA Sport. NEWCASTLE boss Sir Bobby Robson has told Hugo Viana he has no chance of a loan move after discovering Lee Bowyer could be out for three months. Bowyer's hip injury has not responded to treatment in the way Newcastle's medical staff
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    • 266 57 BBC, PA Sport. MARC Overmars (right) is the next transfer target for unaer-fire Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier. h Barcelona's Dutch f winger can leave the Nou Camp if the offer is right and die Reds are prepared to bid around £smillion ($14.85 m). But there is a
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    • 219 57 PA Sport. PA Sport. BIRMINGHAM have cancelled the contract of striker Luciano Figueroa by mutual consent. The Argentinian joined City in the summer for £2.smillion ($7.4 m) will now join Mexican side Cruz Azul for an undisclosed fee. The 22-year-old made just one Premiership appearance for Steve
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    • EXCLUSIVE STAR
      • 561 58  -  |By RYAN GIGGS MANCHESTER UNITED FROM past experience we are well aware that the busy Christmas schedule is the key stage in the Premiership season. If we can go into the New Year on top of the league it will be a
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        530 58 PA Sport. THE smile is back on the face of Wayne Rooney and it is all thanks to old hand David Moyes teaching his young pup new tricks. Moyes can look back on the last few weeks satisfied that he has dealt decisively with two areas of major
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      • CHARLTON v CHELSEA
        • 388 59  -  By DEAN KIELY CHARLTON CHELSEA'S "buy of the season" has to be Damien Duff. And it's a real shame for the fans that he'll be missing the long-awaited Boxing Day clash against us through injury. I know Damien well, of course, having been in the same
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        • 221 59  -  By CHRIS POWELL CHARLTON WHAT has happened at Stamford Bridge this season is just incredible. But there's more to what Claudio Ranieri (right) has done than just shell out cash. Everyone knows how much money Chelsea have spent, that's no secret, but what has amazed
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        • 199 59  -  By LES FERDINAND LEICESTER CITY PLAYING against one of your former clubs is always something special. Especially if you have good memories of your time there. Sure enough, Newcastle was the first match I looked for when the fixture list came out, and so
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      • 479 60  -  [Byl FREDDIE KANOUTE TOTTENHAM I'M looking forward to seeing my former manager Harry Redknapp on Boxing Day when we travel to Fratton Park to face Portsmouth. It's a big game for us and one that we'll be looking to win, but it will be
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    • 505 61 AP. SO, who really is the best soccer player in the world? The coaches, fans and media can't make up their minds. Real Madrid star Zinedine Zidane was a runaway winner of Fifa's poll of top coaches for the World Player of the Year award. Pavel
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