The New Paper, 17 October 2004

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    • 864 2  -  For 5 years, he remained slouched on his couch, half naked, playing video games in the same T-shirt Until doctors arrived to drag him away Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg FOR five years, his obsession with video games controlled his life. So much so that he became mentally ill, said
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    • 287 2 MENTAL illness isn't always accompanied by violent or aggressive behaviour, say Dr Ang Yong Guan and Dr Lionel Lim Chee Chong. Both are consultant psychiatrists at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. Said Dr Ang: "Some parents think that if their child is obedient, quiet, and
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    • 406 3  -  By Oo Gin Lee tnp@sph.com.sg I ALMOST flunked my first year at NUS Law School because I was harbouring, quite literally, the wrong ambitions. That year, I was introduced to the exciting world of PC games. Previously, I frequented arcades and messed around with TV
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    • 673 3  -  Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg THERE is a link between mental illness and serious behavioural problems and an obsession with computer or video games, or watching TV, says a psychiatrist. Dr Ang Yong Guan, a consultant psychiatrist at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, backs this theory with
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    • 282 3 PERSONS with mental illness (PMI) in Singapore tend to suffer from stigmatisation and discrimination. That's why, despite Philip's remarkable improvement with less than two months of treatment after five years of mental illness his mother refused to let The New Paper on
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      961 4  -  DAD IN JAIL, KIDS GET PUT IN HOME. HOW TO FORGIVE? PRISONERS OF WOE Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg THEIR father is in prison and so are they. She's 12. Her brother is 11. Theirs is a different kind of prison. Their prison bars are more emotional, the result of
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    • 569 4  -  ALL I ASKED WAS, JUST DON'T DO IT AGAIN. AND THIS IS THE PART WHICH WAS HARDEST TO FORGIVE, BECAUSE SHE DID. Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg FORGIVING is probably one of the toughest things in the world to do. Christians make it one of
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    • 559 5  - FORGIVE FORGET? HARDER FOR KIDS PRISONERS OF WOE By Low Ching Ling louicl@sph.com.sg A PROJECT to encourage society to accept ex-prisoners back into society saw more than 2,300 pleas sent out by prisoners to their families last week. It is part of the Singapore Prison Service's Yellow Ribbon project. But
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    • 540 5 SHE has seen her son put behind bars twice. Madam Lim, 62, told The New Paper on Sunday: "As a mother, it really hurts to see your son going to jail. In life, there's nothing worse than losing your freedom." Her son, Ben (not his real name),
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  • news
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      958 7  -  'IT WAS AGONISING, SCARY, HEARTBREAKING, UNFORGETTABLE' VICTIM RECALLS FAMILY'S TRAUMA Genevieve Ling geneviev@sph .com. sg THE runs. Toilet trips every 10 minutes. Vomitting every 15 minutes. Severe tummy aches. Mr Ramlee Ahmad, 41, and his family know what it's like to be victims of a disease that has
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    • 283 7 CHOLERA occurs sporadically in Singapore. There were two notified cases in 2002 and 2003, and eight cases in 1999/2001. The Bedok outbreak has already overtaken the total number of recorded cases in the last two years. All eight patients from the Bedok outbreak
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    • 229 7 WHEN The New Paper On Sunday visited the Bedok interchange food centre during lunch yesterday, it was still teeming with customers. Out of the 15 customers TNP spoke to, only one said it was better to exercise some caution. The rest were unfazed.
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      482 8  -  He can't walk normally, but he can save you from drowning Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg HE'S walked with a limp since the age of 3, because of polio. And yet, if you're drowning, Mr Jeffrey Lee is more than capable of saving your life. Mr Lee, despite his
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    • 155 8 FOR three years, Mr Kelvin Ho hardly left his home. The loss of his legs had caused him to become withdrawn. In 1989, he was diagnosed with Buerger's Disease that's where blood vessels get inflammed and clot a condition caused by smoking. His lower legs
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    • 144 9 THESE criteria were set by Time Asia when deciding who it would name as Asia's 20 heroes under the age of 40: Achievements: They had to have achieved a high level of success and recognition at a young age Sense of social consciousness Widely admired and respected The
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    • 654 9  - Bravado HERO ■Mil Film-maker Royston Tan was named one of Asia's heroes by Time magazine. Is he worthy? Fawziah Selamat I fawziahs@sph.com.sg ROYSTON Tan isn't ready for his close-up. Not when he's got blotchy red skin after returning from a four-day trip to Busan, South Korea. Affable and gregarious but
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      425 10 4-month-old baby's brain swollen and bleeding after being left in maid's care WHEN Mr Hasbullah Abu Bakar, 36, left home for work last month, his baby daughter was healthy and happy. When he got back later that day, Nor Aina Batrisyia, then just 3 months old, was
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    • 246 10 Bernama. THE illegal football bookmaking syndicate was raking in up to RM2 million ($883,600) a match. But their lucrative business came to an end this week after Malaysian police smashed the syndicate in Bukit Mertajam, believed to be
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    • 321 11 BOOM! Boom! Boom! That was all the drivers on a Taiwan highway heard for several minutes on Friday afternoon. No thanks to 30,000 screws that spilled from the back of a lorry onto the road, reported Apple Daily Taiwan. It was
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    • 276 11 ANTHONY Kesler appeared to be a respectable former marine who had fallen on hard times. He lived in a hostel, claimed benefits and used a walking stick to get around. But the 65-year-old was leading a double life, reported The
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    • 943 12 TRUE-LIFE TALE OF UNUSUAL ISLAND (part2) Yesterday, we unfolded the tale of how Pitcairn Island came into itself, after the infamous mutiny on board the HMS Bounty. More than 200 years later, a second 'storm' is brewing in the South Pacific island, one which threatens to cast
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        47 13 THIS IS NOT A GOOD MAN. OF COURSE, I AM SPEAKING AS A MOM, AND A PRETTY INDIGNANT MOM... WHAT A CHEAP AND TAWDRY POLITICAL TRICK. US Vice-President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, rapping Democratic challenger John Kerry because he said their daughter was a lesbian.
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      • 71 13 AMERICA'S popularity around the world has taken a beating. But Americans can relax. It's US President George Bush who is deeply unpopular in the 10 countries polled not the American people themselves. "We like Americans, we don't like Bush," was how Britain's Guardian newspaper summed up
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      • 98 13 MOTORISTS using two Malaysian highways the one to Cameron Highlands and the North-South Expressway have been warned of landslides. The Works Ministry issued an alert that landslips could occur on three spots on the Simpang Pulai-Lojing-Gua Musang-Kuala Behrang stretch near Cameron Highlands, also known as the Second
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      • 172 13 SECOND PRICE CUT THIS MONTH WHILE world oil prices have soared to a record U5554.60 ($92) a barrel, there is some relief for motorists here. Petrol prices have been slashed for the second time this month. This time there's a 10 per cent discount. Shell, ExxonMobil,
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      • 205 13 FEWER YOUNGSTERS CAUGHT STEALING BUT~ WHILE there has been a drop in the number of youths arrested, more have been caught fighting in schools and other public places such as bus interchanges and coffeeshops. According to the latest police statistics, the number of youths arrested
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      • 40 13 A DOG sentenced to death for biting was finally pardoned by a judge in England. The owner of Dino, case to the European Court of Human Rights. Dino landed in hot water for biting a woman who tried to
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      • 97 13 THERE is growing concern about possible nuclear activity in Taiwan, says a US analyst, after a Taiwanese lawmaker asked in Parliament if the government is conducting secret arms planning. People First Party (PFP) legislator Nelson Ku asked on Tuesday: "Is there a five-person team, including active and
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      • 57 13  -  Dominic Ying domytng@sph .com. sg NAVAL diver Kumanan Sadasivam is ready for rock-climbing and abseiling too. He and fellow diver Melvin Lim, both 21, were at Outward Bound Singapore in Pulau Ubin yesterday preparing for the AXN Action Asia Challenge next weekend. The contestants will be
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    145 14 mi 5j HI 1h L r i NOTHING'S worse than sitting at home on a Saturday night wishing you had someone other than your cat to spend the time with. Except, of course, if your Saturday was spent with the date from hell. Yes, that's the risk you run
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    • 302 15 WET AND WILD Contined from previous page UNLESS you're properly experienced, trained and certified, you should never dive alone. And even then, you've got to be inhaling something other than oxygen from your dive tank if you DO dive alone. This means that even
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    • 193 15 FAST MOVES OKAY, roller-blading, or inline skating which is the sport-of-the-moment, doesn't automatically guarantee you a partner. Though love doesn't always fall into people's laps, with roller-blading, love might come if you fall on your backside. Love scorecard: Said Sharon Lee, 25, a product specialist who
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    • 286 16 LOVE TWO THIS is among the few sports that actually uses the word "love" in its terminology. Okay, so "love" is tennis-speak for "zero". But the graceful game still exudes romantic charm. After all, it is the game which made popular the art of
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    • 343 16 MAKE YOUR MOVE WILLIAM Hung may have rung the final death knell for the explosion with his wince-inducing routine of Ricky Martin's But we dare you to tell us what screams red-hot passion more than a sexy, scintillating Latin dance? Besides, Latin dances allow
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    • 483 17 A Mil IN ITtt UK Of ESTHER MftONG FOR the first time since I started "dating" personalities for this column, I came away slightly depressed. And it's not actor Timothy Nga's fault that instead of a double shot latte at Starbucks,
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    • 483 17  -  m -^i 'rag"giMBna" •***"B About last rhk.^ Clndy Yam tnp@sph.com.sg I NEVER knew I had an Idol called Joy Tobing living so close to my homeland though I knew all about those Idols who live thousands of kilometres away. Like LaToya London
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    • 555 18  -  Annette Tan tnp@sph.cxxn.sg THERE is a man in my apartment building who goes out of his way to avoid me whenever he sees me walking my dog Oily. He has even knowingly stepped into a puddle of mud just so he wouldn't have to
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    • 707 18  -  WHYHMEA CONSULTANT TO FIX SOMETHING THAT COULD HA VI BEEN AVOIDED AT THE DRAWING BOARD? THAT SECTION OF ORCHARD ROAD'S HEART BEGAN TO CHOKETHE MOMENT NGEE ANN CITY SWUNG OPEN ITS MONUMENTAL DOORS IN 1994. 1 -4 Tan Dawnwel dawntan@sph.com.sg LAST week,
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    • 735 19  -  SOME GET AGITATED OR DRIVE DANGEROUSLY. OTHERS WEAR REVEALING CLOTHES. BUT SOME OF HIS STUDENTS END UP AS FRIENDS Esther Au Yong estheray@ sph.com.sg IMAGINE, all those sweet young things in short skirts and revealing blouses taking your lessons. Some even act coy and helpless. Surely,
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    • 558 20  -  REEVE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE SUPERMAN. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO MADE IT SEEM ACCEPTABLE, EVEN HIP, TO WEAR YOUR UNDERWEAR ON THE OUTSIDE. Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg Man of Steel. YOU'LL believe a man can flyWhat a tagline. Whoever wrote it hit a creative
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    • 454 20  -  Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN I was in Primary 3,1 had the misfortune to sit next to Michael Eliyaraman Something Mahadevan, whose name took up two lines in the attendance register, making the headmaster think there were 41 students in our class instead
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    • 656 21  -  COUPLE PROFILE Beng Kwee (husband): 35 years, height 1.70m, weight 88kg, publisher Cori (wife): 31 years, height 1.67m, weight 50kg, hair salon owner Years married: 8 Number of children: 1 Home: 5-room HDB Frequency per week: One Goals: Wife wants husband to lose weight
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    • 225 21 I HAVE a relationship with a guy who is five years older than me. I'm 21 now. We have been together for 3 Vi Yrs. Lately, I feel I want to see someone else let's just say that I'm getting quite bored with him. Maybe
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    • 545 22 THERE are two issues here, one with your mum and one with your boyfriend. Let's start with your boyfriend. The age gap isn't why you are bored with him but your age is. You feel you are still young and want to look around some more. That's not wrong
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    • 193 25 THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY October 17,2004 Page 3( K J Kl lil L M It's called: 2046 K stars: Tony Leung, Gong U Director Wong Kar Wai A writer's novel writes about a train which goes into the future to the year 2046 and how people go there to
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  • 442 26  -  I Hey! Looking back with Dave almighty IF I had my way, Superman wouldn't die. He'll change into nice, crisp underwear every day and fly on and on. If I had my way, South Park creators wouldn't have to completely drop
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    • 564 27 I Heyl I THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY October 17,2004 Page 32 Switch on Sammi Cheng sees dead MTV SE Aaia (StaiHub Ch 20) people in this Sixth Sense SuiVIVOr Vanuatu Saturday (Oct 23), lpm meets Ghost flick and her dead Channel 5 Speaking of spoilt kids, we ex-classmate helps
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    • 879 28 I I Television THE MEW POPEB OH SUNPftY October 17. 2004 Page 33 Switch on TODAY I Channel i Channel 5 Channel U Channel 8 Suria Central 9:001 Stargate Season 9-001 7th Heaven VII 9:3oam I Guess 3 9:ooam I New 10:00 am I SelamatPagf 10:00 am I Champs 10:001
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  • tech
    • 417 31 KNOW THE STORY OF NOAH'S ARK? FOUR years ago, scientists thought they had found the place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea. It was built about 7,500 ago just before tidal waves inundated the homestead,
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    • 250 32 Retired chemist claims a prize-winning caterpillar engine was based on his own invention IT'S a David versus Goliath story. A 77-year-old retired chemist has challenged a patent for a prize-winning Caterpillar engine, claiming it was based on his own invention. Last month, Mr Clyde Bryant
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  • 267 34  -  -V-tech-^- BY Oo Gin Lee tnp@sph.com.sg YOU know the saying that there is always a woman behind every successful man. Well, in this game it's the "woman" sitting on your shoulders who brings you success. The Nitro Family consists of
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  • 302 40 tech H— Reuters. SOMETHING was not quite right, and Seoul music store owner Jang Kyung-hee smelled a rat. He first caught a whiff of its deadly odour two years ago and, since then, things have got progressively worse. "Before, if
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  • racing
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      150 42 Peking pottinger (Race 6 No. 2) So this alliterative name is a bit of a mouthful. But his recent form has been easier on the eye when he showed a marked improvement at his first-up effort from a spell. Australian handler John McGillivray has more than delivered the
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    • 375 42 Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee RACE Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 8 Ideal Sky 5 Cheek/ Kool Cheeky 12 Key Largo 3 Akashi Brothers 8 Ideal Sky 12 Key Largo 7 EMPEROR COMMANDS* 7 E. Commands
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    • 106 42 RACE 3: Happy News, Manuscrito Tom, British Commander, Robin Hood, Spin Master, Champagne Charlie, Strong Character, Twinkle Stars, Ezy Dragon. RACE 4: Grand Season, Tin-Pan Alley, Baby Ice, Caldecott Star, Get A Win, Era Vins. RACE 5: Goldfinch, Power Of City, Brimstone. RACE 6: Time To Celebrate, Strathmore Power,
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    • 145 44 AFP. RACE favourite Elvstroem led all the way to claim the A$2.5 million ($3.05 million) Caulfield Cup over 2,400m in Melbourne yesterday. The Caulfield Cup is one of the major lead-up races to the Melbourne Cup (3,200m i at Flemington racecourse on Nov 2. Sent out
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    • 495 50 4 GOLF: WORLD MATCH PLAY Wire Services. ERNIE Els will try to mark his 35th birthday today by winning the World Match Play title at Wentworth for a record-breaking sixth time. That done, he will blow out the candles on a huge birthday cake
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    • 795 51  -  S-LEAGUE: CONTROVERSIAL SUBSIDIES FOR OVERSEAS CLUBS FOREIGN SUBSIDY: $80,000 (first year) $120,000 (second year) $180,000 (third year) By Adrian Chan npsport@sph. com.sg SINCHI vice-chairman Wang Jinhui feels that the S-League's decision to provide subsidies for foreign clubs from next year onwards is no issue at all. His
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    • 644 52 S-LEAGUE: CONTROVERSIAL SUBSIDIES FOR OVERSEAS CLUBS Local S-League clubs will get lower subsidies next year while foreign dubs will enjoy subsidies for the first time. This, when the S-League had publicly declared that foreign dubs are supposed to be self-sufficient. But dubs were up in arms recently when
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    • 185 52 AT a meeting with the S-League last month, local club chairmen and managers found out Sinchi had already been receiving subsidies since they entered the S-League last year. A club manager who was at that meeting, told The New Paper: "He (Sinchi vice-chairman Wang Jinhui) basically said that
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    • 564 53 We've just been told that we will no longer get the annual subsidy ($85,000) to run our COEs (Centres of Excellence) next year and develop our Under-16 and U-18 teams. Sengkang Marine have always developed two to four players who go into the national football
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    • 637 55 FATHERHOOD FOOTBALL SOME day, and that day is inevitable, my daughter is bound to ask me: "Pa, what do you do for a living?" I will not be ashamed to tell her that I'm paid to pursue my passion. I spend my time living, breathing and dreaming
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    • 295 56 PA Sport. MANCHESTER United supporters' groups have reacted with dismay to the news that American tycoon Malcolm Glazer has increased his shareholding in the club. Fans who railed against the prospect of Glazer taking a controlling interest in United were lifted on Thursday
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    • 243 57  - BETTING TEXT: BRIAN MILLER TEAM UPDATE: Charlton's Radostin Kishishev is still out. Shaun Bartlett, Francis Jeffers and Mark Fish have passed fitness tests. Matt Holland could make his debut. Newcastle will have to do without Patrick Kluivert. But Titus Bramble will make the squad. FORM GUIDE: Graeme Souness has brought
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      • 307 58 CHARLTON v NEWCASTLE Patrick's had a niggling hamstring problem since day one when I came here. It's disappointing but encouraging as well because when he's 100 per cent we'll get even more out of him. Graeme Souness PA Sport. Newcastle striker Patrick Kluivert (right) has lost
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      • 293 58 PA Sport. CHARLTON manager Alan Curbishley is at a loss to explain why his team are unable to match their excellent home form when they play away from The Valley. Curbishley and his players are understandably confident ahead of tomorrow's home clash with Newcastle after a
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      • 290 59 PA Sport. Graeme Souness welcomed Jermaine Jenas back into the Newcastle fold following his full England debut but then insisted only the midfielder's club career concerned him. Jenas has started every one of Souness' games in charge, and the Magpies boss believes the former Nottingham Forest
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      • 219 59  -  rsrm I CYfl HCilfC By SHOLA AMEOBI NEWCASTLE WITH Patrick Kluivert struggling with his hamstring, Graeme Souness wants to take me along as cover, but I can't see myself starting the game. I have a lack of match-fitness and haven't trained for four weeks, so I'd be
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      • 850 60  -  By Paul Walker SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport. Leon osman grabbed his third goal of the season two minutes from time to rescue Everton and cement the Merseysiders into third spot in the Premiership. Southampton, with only one point away all term, had been crippled by injuries,
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      • 203 60  -  Round-up By Bob Dale SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MARK HUGHES endured a miserable end to a torrid week after his Blackburn side were put to the sword by Middlesbrough for whom Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored a hat-trick. Hughes began his week as Wales manager watching Steve McClaren beaming
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      • 686 61  -  By Steven Butler SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport XABIALONSO struck a sweet free-kick in the closing stages of this match to seal a remarkable second-half fightback for Liverpool They had found themselves two goals down at the break, but put in a vastly improved performance in
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        482 62  -  ROONEY LED MAN U OVER-HYPED? BIRMINGHAM 0 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 By] Ernest Luis npsports@sph. com.sg WHEN Wayne Rooney played his first game for Manchester United three weeks ago, fans bowed. Scoring a hat-trick on his debut for his new team, even the critics were swayed. This was the
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      • 491 63 BIRMINGHAM 0 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 Sir Alex says Man U not showing form to put them in Championship race PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson admits Manchester United are not yet showing the kind of form required to haul them back into the Premiership title race after a
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      • 138 63 PA Sport. Birmingham City claimed their first ever Premiership point off Manchester United without five senior players. They matched the Red Devils for long periods as they extended their unbeaten run to five games. David Dunn was impressive, particularly in the first half while Robbie Savage
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      • 243 63 PA Sport. Dwight Yorke challenged himself and his Birmingham team-mates to maintain the level of performance which helped them claim a point against Manchester United. Ruud van Nistelrooy had the visitors' best chance but was denied by Maik Taylor's feet at close quarters as the game ended
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      • 639 64 4 STRIKERS 0 GOALS ONE by one, he flung his top strikers at Birmingham. Ruud van Nistelrooy. Louis Saha. Alan Smith. But at half-time, the score was 0-0. In the second half, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson sent Wayne Rooney on. Four strikers in total. But Birmingham still held
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      • 723 65 2 Gunners 3 goals ARSENAL 3 (Pires 19th min pen, 72, Henry 45) VILLA 1 (Hendrie 3) UNSTOPPABLE, unbeatable, what else can one say about the greatness that is Arsenal Football Club? Even when it seemed they could have lost to an early Lee Hendrie goal, time would always be
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