The New Paper, 19 September 2004

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  • 33 1 the new paper on Sunday (Jp* Singapore Press Holdings HOTLINE 1800 733 44 55 II |l|l IIII III Website: newpaperasial .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg SEPTEMBER 19,2004 80 cents ||||1 mita(P) 024/03/2004 8 *****1 *****9 >
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    • 972 2  -  Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg SHE watched in anguish as her first child slowly crumbled and died, a victim of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Her second child is healthy, but when her third started showing worrying symptoms, Madam Normizah Isa's heart sank.
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      529 3 I HELD HER, THEN WHEN Siti Hazwani was born on Jan 14,1998, life seemed bright for Madam Normizah and her husband. They had waited 1 l /i years for their first baby. But when the child was two months old, Madam Normizah started to notice that her
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    • 216 3 LITTLE Zulhilmi Sanusi gets to spend most of his time at home, despite his medical condition. That's thanks to the paediatric homecare programme started by KK Women's and Children Hospital to help very ill patients go from hospital back to their homes. There are about 100
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    • 92 3 SPINAL muscular atrophy is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles. KK Women's and Children's Hospital sees two to three new cases a year. There are several types. Severe dVpe 1) onset before or shortly after birth. Sufferers are unable to sit, and don't usually survive
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    • 820 5  -  81-CULTURAL IN MULTI-RACIAL SINGAPORE Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg MISS Carine Ho (left) shops in Little India more often than she does in Chinatown. The 31-year-old customer service executive also prefers Indian to Chinese cuisine and owns four Punjabi suits and a sari. On the other
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    • 588 6  -  COMMENT/ ‘Sylvia TOh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg HSBC, which tags itself the world's local bank, has a series of print and broadcast advertisements that are spot-on at bridging the east-meets-west divide. The Japanese man bows in greeting, the American man shakes hands when saying hello. The
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    • 452 7  -  81-CULTURAL IN MULTI-RACIAL SINGAPORE Joyce Lim joyce!@sph.com.sg HIS obituary stood out on the pages of Lianhe Zaobao. But Mr K Samiappan always felt right at home among the Chinese. Throughout his life he had been comfortable among the Chinese community in Punggol
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    • 197 8  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg IF you've ever had any doubt as to who rules on Caldecott Hill (home of Singapore television), make your way to the Biggest International Food Festival now on in Suntec City. In the centrc of halls 403-404, a storeys-high
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    • 372 8 As the escalators climb away from the ground floor, you have a bird's eye view of how many plates of food two or three Singaporeans can really put away (all the buffet outlets are good meal deals). Meanwhile, back in Singapore's biggest international food festival, I
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    • 925 9  -  Joyce Lim joyce!@sph.com.sg INSIDE the tents, it was hot and humid. No wonder then, one batch of Malaysia's National Service girls would peel off their shirts and go topless. It was quite a sight, related Miss Alia
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    • 169 9 On Apr 24, NSman Awang Fazil Borhan, 18, went missing while taking a dip with other recruits in a river near Kuching in Sarawak. His body was found after an hour's search. ■On Apr 22,10 NS trainees allegedly assaulted another at a hostel in Kuantan, Pahang. On
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    • 228 10 YES, we had to resort to sleeping in our bra and panties, said two other girls who also served NS. They told The New Paper on Sunday that the worst part of the three-month programme was "the heat". "Ten girls sleep in one tent.
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    • 626 11  -  BRUNEI IN THE NEWS 1: S'PORE GIRL'S FAIRYTALE CRUSH ON ROYALTY Joyce Lim joycel@ sph.com.sg THIS Singaporean girl had some encounters with the Brunei royal family when she was young. When she read about the Crown Prince's royal wedding in the newspapers recently, it was an
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    • 349 11  -  BRUNEI IN THE NEWS 2 Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg IT was a gift fit for a prince. Two solid gold coins, embossed on one side with the happy couple's portrait and the date of their wedding a gift from our leaders to the Brunei Crown Prince and
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    • 469 12 HE ARMS HIMSELF WITH... WATER, EXTRA CLOTHES, HANDPHONE CHARGER THE Singaporean remisier appeared to have been well prepared for his stunt to grab the attention of the press. He took along along: A bottle of water A laptop bag with a change of clothes
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    • 467 13 IT lies smack in the middle of three affluent neighbourhoods and this makeshift settlement could belong to robbers. The nine wooden shacks, built around a central kitchen (above) in the jungle off Jalan Duta in Kuala Lumpur, is flanked by houses belonging to ministers
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    • 723 14 NO SEX, YET MENOPAUSAL WOMAN HAS 11 BABIES IN 4 YEARS MICHAEL Odera claims his wife gave birth to 11 babies in four years. Some of the pregnancies, he says, lasted less than four months. And the first was born when his wife, Eddah, was
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    • 183 14 MRS Elizabeth Njenga last saw her daughter in the delivery room of the rundown Mama Lucy Clinic m Nairobi. A few minutes after giving birth to a healthy girl by caesarian section on Feb 5 this year, she was moved to the main ward.
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    • Snap Shot
      • 169 15 EDUCATION Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam says it's not possible for schools to shift all Saturday activities to weekdays. The uniformed groups will need to continue activities on Saturdays because schools rely on volunteers for training. Mr Tharman said this yesterday at a conference for uniformed groups
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      • 107 15 "DR Chee Soon Juan has confirmed he is working with foreigners and that his objective is to damage Singapore and its judiciary in the eyes of the world." So says a statement issued by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's press secretary, Madam Yeong Yoon Ying.
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      • 219 15 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the Government's policy on keeping the media industry open remains unchanged If a new player comes in and wants to start a newspaper or a new TV channel, the proposal will be examined, he said. MediaCorp and Singapore Press
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      • 51 15 WHETHER it's ice cream with french fries, raw lemons sprinkled with salt and pepper, mustard with chips, nearly 60 per cent of pregnant women in Britain admit to having weird cravings, says a survey. Meanwhile, babies* tastes have gained sophistication, with pesto, squid and asparagus soup on the kiddie
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    • 216 15 $55M A YEAR HELP FOR DISABLED KIDS THE Ministry of Education will set aside $55 million a year over the next four years to provide better education for children with learning disabilities. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this yesterday at the opening of
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    • 126 16 A Itak ft Like some global fast-food chain, Idols are popping up in various countries. Indonesia, Malaysia and SheelaNanqranan Singapore are the first three countries on the Asian Idol sheeia@sph.com.sg circuit, with India close on their heels. The Phillipines might follow soon. We check out the differences between the different
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      669 17 continued, from previous page What is competition without scandal? Different countries, of course, had their different controversies. With Malaysian Idol, the controversy pot bubbled a bit more than the rest. The show came under attack in July by the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS). It wanted to shut
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    • 243 17 THANKS to that caustic Brit Simon Cowell, being an Idol judge is as pleasant as having brain surgery without anaesthesia. There is one thing that all three countries share viewers think the judges are trying to be Cowell-copycats. However, each country's judges have been subjected to different
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    • 229 17 IF you can speak in two languages, you should be able to sing in both. That seems to be the idea for Indonesian and Malaysian Idols. In both countries, competitors were allowed to sing in their national language as well as in English. For Indonesian idol, most of
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    • 190 18 AS you know, every vote counts. If that sounds a bit like it's an election, just look at what the Indonesian Idol organisers were up to. They got their finalists, Joy and Delon, to go out on the streets and campaign for votes. Said Ms Trinidad: "They
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    • 700 19  -  Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg But in reality, that isn't always what he'll get. According to a hotel chef who wants to be known only as Mr Yew,
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    • 690 20 IT'S been a year since Kevin and Alicia were intimate. Married for five years, they have a 2-year-old daughter. Things were fine up to that point but thereafter, despite Alicia's persistent efforts to jump-start their sex lives, Kevin somehow has been less than enthusiastic about it.
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    • 282 21 I AM an 18-year-old girl, studying in a polytechnic. I am obese and I have tried everything to lose weight but to no avail. I also have a spinal problem and hence there are limits to how active I can be physically.
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    • 510 21 ADVICE It's not normal to throw up as frequently as you've described here, TT, so I think you really should consult a doctor about your condition as soon as possible. And make sure you discuss your weight problem as well. Now, on to matters of
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    • 557 22  -  Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg IF you skipped reading The New Paper this week, you would have missed an important story on Wednesday. That there were naked models doing a photoshoot out in the grasslands in Punggol Marina. Don't take my word for it, ask anybody
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    • 445 22  -  Humour me Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg IF you had enough money to buy an apartment in a condominium complex, what's the most important thing you'd look for apart from (a) location (b) location and (c) location? Okay, some people would say (a) price (b) price and
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 78 22 FAB'S PS fabian@sph.com.sg thepe's seen a spate op HUPPICANES IN THE U.S. PECENTLY HUPPICANE CHAQLBY, HUPPICANE FQANCeS, AND NOW, HUPPICANE /KM/ HOW ON EAPTH DO THEY COME UP WITH THESE NAMES ANYWAY? IT MAY SOUND EASY BUT I BELIEVE THE METEOPOLOSIST MUST HAVE SPENT HOUPS DELIBEPATINS OVEP HUNDPEDS OP NAMES
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      319 24  - Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg Elak Bola Dodgeball: America, traditionally, has its own calendar of great sports. Here they steal a leaf from our own childhood game of Hantam Bola. And show us how six men lacking any direction in life can have a ball of a time. With one
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    • 453 25  -  Janice Sesh tnp@sph.com.sg IT was the '80s, and my Dad would say when I went out on a Saturday night: "Make sure you come home in one piece." It was a throwaway line, which he could say precisely because there was little likelihood of me ending
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    • 355 26  -  [AIMIEMIHEUKOF... Her dude: Keagan Kang Background: stage and TV actor currently in Ch i's Singapore Shakes Age: 28 Best bit of a girl: Her smell. Worst bit of a girl: Mood swings. Best bit of himself:" I'm a shouldertocryon." Worst bit of himself: "I can be
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    • 514 26  -  SFXIFSS m the city Fawziah Seiamat fawziahs@sph.com.sg I HATE it when women talk about the dates they've gone on and then lament how they just can't find the right guy. Well, try never going on a date. Here I am at
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    • 542 27  -  Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph .com .sg GUYS with expensive fast cars, I'm sorry to be the bearer of some devastating news It seems you've been bamboozled. You know all those motorshows and ads draping half-naked women on your kind of cars, and making you think
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    • 187 27  -  About last night Jade Mok tn p@sph.com.sg VIVIAN Yamaguchi, co-owner of the Shinn Unkai Restaurant at International Plaza, believes destiny dictates everything. I wonder if destiny was playing tricks on me when I was handed this assignment to spend an evening in a
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    • 715 28 I pgyl Television THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY September 19. 2004 Switch on ims v«x FawziahSi(llMl Reality check fawziahs@sph.com. sg HFVEH CinemaxistarHubChs9) (Season Finale) Tonight (Sep 19) 9pm Wednesday (Sep 22) 10pm MRESj BM Who knew that Richard Gere Bmk could sing and tap-dance? wou 'd have guessed that Well,
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    • 781 29 Television THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY September 19,2004 Page 33 Switch on iDiwr Channel i Channel 5 Channel U Channel 8 Suria Central 9:301 Magical Doremi 9-001 7th Heaven VIII 9*3oam I Guess 3 9:ooam I New 10:001 Selamat Pagl 10:00 am I Champs 9 001 7thHeavenVl Adventures Of Young
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  • 588 30  -  TeCH MAD IAN TAN tanyhi@sph.com.sg IF you have been reading these pages, you probably know about the growing problem of spyware programs that secretly enter your computer through the Internet. Personally, I thought it was something that affected people who were not tech-sawy or did not
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    • 288 33 Wire services. A DOCTOR painstakingly threads a thin tube deep into his sedated patient's heart. Suddenly, he pushes a hair-sized needle out of the tube and deliberately punctures a crucial artery. But a pink snout beneath the sheets signals this is no ordinary patient. Working on the
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  • 311 37 MICROSOFT TRYING TO MAKE WINDOWS LESS RECEPTIVE TO DATA STORAGE DEVICES -V-tech-i- Wire services. FOR years, programmers worldwide have worked to make it easier for devices like handphones and personal digital assistants to work instantly and easily with computers. But now Microsoft is doing just the opposite working
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  • racing
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      315 41  -  DREAM WEIGHT AND SHEER CONSISTENCY PUT HIM IN GOOD STEAD FOR $125,000 COMMITTEE'S PRIZE Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg IF SHEER consistency can be rewarded, then Raul (right) fully deserves to win the Group 3 Committee's Prize in Race 9 at Kranji this afternoon. The Hideyoshi five-year-old, who is
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      79 41 Hulk (above) (RACE 5 NO. 6) He's already a favourite among Kranji race-goers having saluted thrice in just four starts, including his impressive victory in the Juvenile Championship last July. This natural front-runner has heaps of ability and will be very difficult to run down again as his
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    • 355 41 Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 1 4 Lion City Glory 1 Ripening 7 Rnt Knight 4 Uon City Glory 7 Rnt Knight 1 Ripening 1 Ripening lOAIonso 5 Pixie Bob 11 Jamaica 7 Rrst Knight 1 Ripening 2 8
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    • 1770 42 Maiden 1.30 18Wm Stakes: $43,000 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 004 RIPENING 59 (56) *M Kellady c1.5 2 (5ag Baertschiger-CN Tan) Coming right carrying bit of weight for being the "class" horse here.
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    • 374 43  -  NEWCOMER PLANET STAR GIVES TRAINER AND JOCKEY FIRST WINNER AT KRANJI Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg IRISH trainer Daniel Murphy and Australian jockey Paul Gatt finally tasted success at Kranji yesterday. The duo got their winning act together with newcomer Planet Star in Race 2. The $24 third
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    • 1619 43 RACE 1: SANGRE AZUL and HARAIGOSHI were withdrawn due to a capacity field. VILLA VERDE jumped awkwardly and shortly after the start, was further inconvenienced on the inside of TRIUMPH AHEAD, who steadied in away from BELT MAN, who laid in away from
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    • 1345 43 FPMH Open Benchmark 81 Quartet/Double Bet 430 -1600m Stakes: $58,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 2-4314 DANA BOY 58 (79) *M Kellady c1.5 2 (6nzh Baertschiger-WS Chak) it it* Never out of first
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    • 171 44  -  Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg BAREND VORSTER moved closer to his first Kranji jockeys' title with a thrilling win on Siempre Paris in the $100,000 Kranji Stakes yesterday. Victory on the $15 fancy took the South African's tally to 46 and moved him 13 clear of Soo Khoon
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      526 45 AP. PHIL Mickelson (right) took cash over country. Lefty rolled the dice. It may prove the worst gamble of his risk-taking career. As the Ryder Cup resumed last night (Singapore time), Mickelson, perhaps the best golfer in the world, was on the bench for the American team, kicked
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    • 715 46  -  THE FUTURE: TEENAGE TENNIS PRODIGY: MATTHEW LIU Wang Meng Meng npsports@ sph.com.sg IT'S a two-pronged fight to polish Matthew Liu into the finished product. First, the player himself has to work on the weaknesses in his technique. And secondly, Thomas needs to find a generous
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    • 1578 47 TEENAGE TENNIS PRODIGY: MATTHEW LIU HE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT TENNIS. HE HAS THE SKILLS, THE MENTAL STRENGTH AND THE WILL TO SUCCEED. AND, BEST OF ALL, HE'S ONLY 14 YEARS OLD AND BEATING THE BIGGER BOYS ON A CONSISTENT BASIS. WANG MENG MENG MEETS MATTHEW
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      • 327 48 MAN U V LIVERPOOL (Tuesday morning, Singapore time) PA Sport. PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson (above) reckons Liverpool will be a serious title threat under new boss Rafael Benitez. The Spanish manager takes his side to Old Trafford for the first time on Monday, looking
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      • 362 48 PA Sport. RAFAEL Benitez's (right) most pressing decision at Old Trafford will again be who plays in central midfield, with Dietmar Hamann left out against Monaco in midweek to allow Xabi Alonso a starring role in the 2-0 win. "We have five players for
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      • 439 49 SOUTHAMPTON v NEWCASTLE LIVE, Ch 23,8.55 pm, tonight PA Sport. JERMAINE Jenas is hoping Newcastle can end their 32-year Southampton hoodoo by repeating last season's FA Cup heroics. The Magpies have not won a League game in the Saints' backyard since Feb 1972, although they
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      • 273 49 EVERTON V MIDDLESBROUGH PUTjTJj LIVE. Ch 24.9.55pm. tonight PA Sport. LEE Carsley (left) is set to make his 50th start for Everton today. Rightly so, as he starts his half-century mark, manager David Moyes has hailed him as a role model at Goodison Park.
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      • 688 50 I saints 2.72 2.72 draw 3.25 J-25 NEWCASTLE C2.20 2.20 C2.2Q) ISAJNT Si* 1 1/2) NEWCASTLE(-1 1/2) 4.00 U (Vj 0 9.00 9.00 9.00 4 5^00 5 7.20 7.20 7.20 6 12.00 12.00 12.00 7 27.00 27.00 27.00 8 65.00 65.00 65.00 9 105 00 105 00
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      • 319 50 PA Sport. EVERTON v BORO: Even David Moyes is surprised by Everton's remarkable start to the season. After a close season of chaos and confusion in which star striker Wayne Rooney was eventually sold, the Goodison Park club have made their best start
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      • 546 51  -  Edwin Yeo npsports@sph.com.sg FINALLY, Jacques Santini will face a real test. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissing the good work he's already done, kicking Tottenham's campaign off to a five-match unbeaten run. Liverpool and Newcastle, both pretenders to the throne, had Spurs on the backfoot
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      • 1109 52 THE ENGLISH MASTERS THE CHELSEA MASTERS AT LEAST A DRAW FOR SPURS THE LONDON DERBY fG CHELSEA V TOTTENHAM .j® The English Soccer Masters series returns this week. Today, former Tottenham manager GERRY FRANCIS speaks to WANG MENG MENG about Spurs' solid start to the season and what we can
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      • 1130 52 ASK any Chelsea fan, which London derby they look forward to the most, and the answer will almost always be the one against Spurs. Sure, Arsenal are the team of the moment, unbeaten for 45 league games (with Chelsea the last team
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      • 391 53 CHELSEA v TOTTENHAM PA Sport. CHELSEA boss Jose Mourinho insisted his side should beat Tottenham tonight, but warned that they must forget all about their past stranglehold over the North London club. He is well aware that the Blues have not
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      • 251 53 AFP. SPURS hotshot Jermain Defoe (below) will lead the line against Chelsea, but if it hadn't been for his boyhood idol lan Wright, the England international might never have made the grade. The two came together at West Ham in 1999 when Defoe was
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      • 574 58 ARSENAL 2 BOLTON 2 PA Sport. SAM Allardyce threw a spanner in the Arsenal works for the second time in three seasons last night. His battling Bolton side twice came from behind to claim a deserved 2-2 draw and end the Gunners' 100 per cent start to
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      • 237 59 Reuters. gm LEEPLESS nights are rapidly becoming a thing of the past for Sam AUardyce. The manager can hold his head high at Bolton's giant-killing feats. Bolton, who had beaten Liverpool and drawn with Manchester United already this season, twice came from behind
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