The New Paper, 18 December 2004

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  • 17 1 the new paper SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2004 Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 the J new^ paper
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    • 44 1 THE NEW PAPER FLAME AWARDS muwait^ to settle court case over hubby's she gets $11,000 N-LEVEL EXAM EXILE I liJ J .:0*> VflW*N *,rftH ■ua m H rq *v X r k < IS a- t 8 wri iSI u ■v 5» a Picture/KELVIN CHNG
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1123 2  -  Schools, in the East, say: No vacancy, wrong subject combination a This despite appeals Mk by MP Too Chee Hean, and H Education Ministry V By Josephine Chew jochew@sph. com.sg TEARS of joy. Happy hugs. Sighs of relief for a hard-won N-level pass. That's what
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    • 184 2 STUDENTS who just received their N- and 04evel results will now be able to take the "One ITE System, 3 Colleges" pome the next academic year. There will be five new courses Communications Technology, Electronics (Wireless Local Area Network), Product > Design and Service Skills (Tourism) and
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    • 462 2 JANE and her aunt, Madam Jennifer Ang, 39, wrote to over 20 schools in the East. Two schools Pasir Ris Secondary and Siglap Secondary gave Jane interviews at the Education Ministry's request. But both said they were unable to give her a place because
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    • 496 3  -  N levels special peoowW By Veena Bharwani veenab@sph. com.sg THERE are many students who have to drag themselves to school because they think that school is a "pain". But here's one student who fights physical pain just to stay in school. She missed almost three
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    • 202 3  -  By Jaclyn Lim jaclynl@spk.com.sg SHAZANAH Awi's bright smile betrays none of the difficulties she had gone through this year. The Springfield Secondary School student (above) has been struggling with barely enough money for lunch and schoolbooks. Her driver father, Mr Awi Morgani, 67, was
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    • 154 2 News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Pages 28-33 TV: Pages 34-35 r HEALTH is Your WFAIT,. It's a medical fact that a good night's sleep Improves the Immune system, boosts energy levels will help you live life to the full! Don't delay! Perfect sleep Is Just a phone call away! ARE
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 486 5  -  Death pacts are rare in Singapore, but experts warn of growing influence of the Internet Teen who wanted to kill herself found... BY Sim Chi Yin simcy@sph.com.sg BEWARE the Internet. Not only can it be addictive, but it may even cost lives. That is the warning
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    • 150 5 Behavioural changes Finding It hard to go to sleep —Avoiding people or activities Giving away personal possessions Physical changes Neglecting one's appearances Sudden weight loss or gain Loss of energy Emotional changes Moody, tearful, quiet, outbursts Loss of concentration Verbal clues Expresses feelings of despair,
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    • 450 5 WHILE mass suicides, aided by the Internet, are not happening here, there are known cases of suicide pacts. Take this case of two classmates, for example. They felt they were "sure to fail" in school and in life so they decided to
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    • 181 5 TWO women met online, and decided not just to kill themselves, but to get others to do it with them. It ended with nine people taking their lives in Japan, on Oct 4, around the same time. One of the two women was found
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 309 6 IT won't be just a warning letter any more. From February, anyone on whose premises mosquitoes are found to be breeding, even first-time offenders, will immediately be fined $100. First-time offenders now get away with just a warning letter. Compared with last year, almost 1,000
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    • 146 6 INDONESIAN police found nine crude bombs packed into cylinders on a bus in Bandung, West Java, yesterday. Police said they had detained 15 people including the bus driver. A senior police officer said at least one of the bombs contained high explosives,
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    • 83 6 FOR the first time, Changi Airport has had more than 100,000 passengers in a day. It happened on three days last month, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said. The previous record was 98,421 passengers a day in December 2002. The total for the year is
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    • 61 6 MALAYSIA Airlines is considering the resumption of direct flights between Singapore and Kuantan. The move would boost tourism in Pahang, which is trying to attract more tourists this year, state executive councillor Maznah Mazlan said. Pahang, which offers beaches, eco-tourism and cool highland resorts, is popular with
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    • 78 6 THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said two core members of a separatist insurgency in the south of the country have fled to Malaysia, where he claimed the guerrillas had received training. Four other suspected militant leaders, captured earlier this week, were brought to Bangkok from the
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    • 73 6 OSAMA bin Laden has called on his fighters to strike Gulf oil supplies and warned Saudi leaders they risked a popular uprising. Washington said intelligence analysts were not immediately able to verify the authenticity of an audio recording, said to be by the Al-Qaeda leader, posted
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    • 84 6 CHINESE cinema-goers will have more choice next year with a new rating system that is likely to allow more sex and violence and increase foreign imports. Chinese censors have been cutting content considered offensive or politically incorrect to make films appropriate for all. But the
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    • 51 6 A Singaporean woman (left) has been found dead in a five-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The victim, identified as Patricia Wong, 31, employee of an international IT company, was found with slash wounds on her back, chest and abdomen. Her money and notebook computer were
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  • NEWS
    • 1122 8  -  Illiterate woman finally gets $11,000 in damages By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com. sg FOR almost 20 years, as her case inched its way through the Malaysian legal system, the widow could get no closure. By day, she would toil in plantations, tapping rubber trees and
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    • 189 8 AN award of RMIO.OOO just for pain and suffering is a new precedent, says Madam Chay's lawyer, Mr Ranjit Singh. M ln other cases, the damages are not bo much so if s very good. He added: "But if negligence resulting in death had been proved,
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    • 680 9  -  From previous page BY Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com.sg MADAM C hay's lawyer, Mr Ranjit Singh (above), said her case is the longest civil suit he has experienced. "We never expected it to drag so much. Cases in Malaysia generally don't take
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    • 250 9 LAWSUITS in Singapore are usually settled within a year unless they are very complicated, said lawyers who spoke to The New Paper. Mr Michael Palmer, a civil lawyer for over nine years, said generally the courts strive to conclude a case within six to nine months. "There are
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  • 374 11  -  'Cheapest' NY eve dinner now open to public SINGAPORE By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg ITS annual dinner and dance has always been a sold -out affair, strictly for members and their family or friends. But this year, for the first time, the Singapore Mercantile Co-operative Society
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    • 352 11 M TCW4^ The European Flying Circus performs at Downtown East until Dec 26. Show times: 6.15pm and 8.15pm on all days except Monday, when there are no shows. There is an additional show at 3.30pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets: $12 ($8 for union members) on weekdays and $14 ($lO
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    531 13  -  AMK Central is all about cheap food, great bargains and the street of 'bling blonde buns' SINGAPORE By Sylvia Toh Pair Choo paikckoo@sph. com.sg WHEN you sit and stare hard and long enough, it's not the answer that materialises (if that is indeed what you are seeking). Sometimes
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  • WORLD
    • 1033 15 Gale-force winds and rough seas turn rescue of Malaysian ship's crew into tragedy off Alaska WHAT HAPPENED FROM about three storeys above, US Coast Guard crew member Brian Lickfield leaned from the open cockpit of the chopper and motioned frantically for them to get into
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    • 461 16 Nanny tells jury he boasted about murdering financier HE was having an affair with a wealthy Wall Street financier's wife, and wanted the man's fortune too. So he beat Mr Theodore Ammon to death, and then married the widow. But Danny Pelosi dug his own
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  • WORLD
    • 472 19 Tennis teen's amazing rise from nobody to tycoon in just 1 year AP. SHE loves to shop, gossip with girlfriends and pore over photos in glossy fashion magazines. But that's where similarities with other 17-year-olds end. Maria Sharapova emerged as one of the world's best tennis players
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    • 335 20 AP. THE nanny was in charge of the 16-month-old baby girl while her mother was at work. But she left little Ashley Lem alone in the house and went Christmas shopping in her employer's Mercedes. Luckily for the baby, her mother, Ms Vivian
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  • 241 22 Late Marlon Brando makes comeback in new Godfather video game WORLD OSCAR-WINNING actor Marlon Brando (left as Don Vito Corleone) will reprise his Godfather role from beyond the grave. Game company Electronic Arts won the right to reproduce Brando's likeness before his death on Jul 1, reported
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  • Hey!
    • THE NEW PAPER FLAME AWARD 2004
      • 756 24  -  By Wendy Teo and Sheela Narayanan teowyw@sph.com. sg, sheela@sph.com.sg AFTER a two-year break, The New Paper's Flame Awards is back. We're just as sizzling hot as ever. And we're ready to name and flame the best and worst in showbiz this year. How can
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      • 531 25 DID you know that the Flame Awards has been around for as long as the Star Awards? Well, almost. The first Star Awards was held in 1994, and Flame Awards saw its first spark one year later. And while Zoe Tay (facing page) held court at
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      • Article, Illustration
        238 25 2001 TURN-OFF OF THE YEAR: Fiona Xie FIASCO OF THE YEAR: Chinese media blackout of Zoe Tay's wedding DENIAL OF THE YEAR: Fann Wong and Christopher Lee EYEPOPPER OF THE YEAR AWARD: Ann Poh and her 34F bust SI BEH SUAY AWARD: Aileen Tan who suffered chemical
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    • Looking at retro music with new eyes
      • 280 26 PICK OF THE WEEK Kings Off Leon ITS so common nowadays to see bands going retro. If you think about it, it actually means we're listening to music two decades too late. But this foursome of rockers have taken retro to an interesting length. First of all,
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      • 146 26 THE CATTLE ARE LOWING BLUE MOO Budak PantaJ I STRUGGLE with a capella music. Yes, it is singing in its purest form but, man, it can get so boring. What's worse, The Cattle Are Lowing Blue Moo by Budak Pantai (Malay for Beach Boys) is a Christmas album. And we
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      • 111 26 J9 NEW PARTY COLLECTION JoHnTsal SEEMS to me Jolin's trying to milk her popularity for all it is worth. Her intentions are clearly commercial-driven it's party season so why not bring out a remix album? But Mandopop fans have never embraced remixes, and I doubt Jolin can change that. At
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      • 119 27 CtayAftM WHEN I caught Sylvester Sim in one episode of Singapore Idol, I finally understood the fascination with Clay Aiken. It's the hair. Both make bad hair look good while trying to look cute. But that's where the similarity ends. Clay can sing. And in Merry
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  • Tech
    • 684 30  -  By Ian Tan tanyhi@sph. com.sg WITH enough exposure to light, everything will fade in time. And that is actually the biggest problem I have with photo printers, apart from accurate colour reproduction. If you want to print photos that will withstand the
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    • 282 32 TWO weeks ago, Star Hub announced that it would be bringing English league soccer to the tiny screens of 3G handphones. Now in a completely opposite move, the telco is bringing soccer matches to people in the biggest possible way Golden Village cinema
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  • 494 34 TECH NYT. Fancy going online to borrow a book from the library? Google, the operator off the world's most popular Internet search service, is working with some of the US's leading research libraries, and Oxford University, to begin converting their books
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    • 155 49 Chief Emperor (Race 7 No. 5) This former Kranji-based galloper has won only once in 11 starts up north, but may well improve on that score today. Under Oscar Chavez's strong urging, the son of El Moxie ran second to Labu Labu in last month's Sultan Gold Vase.
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    • 333 50 NST. GODAPPI, with four wins in his last seven starts, looks ready for his first test in topclass company the RM150,000 ($67,500) Anniversary Cup over 1,700 m in Race 7 tomorrow. Taken out by a track rider yesterday, the five-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Made Of Gold
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    • 1790 50 Selections A comments by JEREMY GREENE DOUBLE TRIO JACKPOT A sum of $4,715 has been carried forward to the pool in Race 6 today. RACE 1: AMBITION (2) is down in grade, he's a Class
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    • 1168 51 Maiden (Restricted) Div 2 2.00 yjjmH -1200m Stakes: RM27.500 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer) 1 -004 JOKER WARRIOR 55 (45) TMWan 7 (3ag Maynard-Joker) 2 005 DIPANGMAS 55 (39) J Winks 4 (3ac Maynard-Gold Plus) 3 0008 GLOBALLY FAMOUS 55
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    • 1820 52 2 SIR FLIGHT58.5 c 55.5 (47-14) 'MZaki (12) 3 2 1 (518) 9 JAMAICA 52.5 c 49.5 (30-11) 'SCheam (5) 11 11 2 (445) 2.25L 12 GOOD PROSPECT 50 (150-39) SSam (6) 2 1 3 (511) hd 11 ASHGROVE 51.5 c 50
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    • 275 52  -  By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg KIWI trainer Laurie Laxon rounded up his record-breaking season with yet another winner at Kranji last night. Already the first to achieve the magical century in a season at Kranji following his double with Chin-Ho and Big Easy
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    • 183 53 THE final race day of the 2004 season last night proved to be a red-letter day for apprentice Sheryl Cheam. The petite 3kg claimer booted home a good-priced treble with Pow To The Moon (Race 6), Terfel (Race 8) and Imperial Lad (Race 9) after finishing
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    • 1391 53 RACE 1: Heavy rain fell prior to the commencement of the race meeting. After being loaded into the barriers, FIRST KNIGHT became restless and reared. JAMAICA jumped awkwardly, was a little slow to begin and was then inconvenienced when bumped by ASHGROVE, who
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  • 1106 54  -  Tiger Cup 2004 SPORTS REPORTS ERNEST LUIS AT 1.89 m, Lionel Lewis is so tall he has to sleep diagonally when he's overseas. That's what he did during the recent Tiger Cup group stages in Vietnam. But when he was up and running on the pitches
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    • 898 56  -  EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN ITALY By Pete Jenson Special Correspondent SPAIN: You've got to have balls in this game crystal balls and when I peered into mine last weekend, I could see Real Madrid having problems against Real Sociedad. That's why I told you all to
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    • 886 57  -  EURO KICKOFF (ITALY): JUVENTUS v AC MILAN By Irene Hoe In Milan Special Correspondent RICKY laughed when I suggested going to tonight's game with him and the AC Milan supporters group he leads Commandos Tigre the club's and arguably Italian football's most famous ultras. "You want
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    • 114 56 MATCH 1501: RACING v REAL MADRID (1) Racing (X) Draw (2) Raal Madrid Racing (+1 1/2) Raal Madrid (-1 1/2) TOTAL GOALS Hfl FT 9.00 14.00 19.00 9.20 5.70 4.40 28.00 13.00 2.50 9.00 4.80 3.70 3.70 5.20 8.30 14.00 27.00 55.00 95.00 HH HD HA DH DD DA AH
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      • 896 59 The WEEKENDSHOWwith ivan um pjlim@sph.com.sg THE WEEKEND SHOW J Birmingham, having done well at one stage, seem to be going through a rough patch. Any idea why? Would you suggest a remedy for their current ills? The one main reason for Birmingham's poor season so
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      • 149 60 SUCH is the appeal of soccer that champions of other sports can't seem to able to leave the Beautiful Game alone. Nor can the fans leave David Beckham alone. It was called the Match Against Poverty and the teams were made up of friends of Real
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      • 739 61 I'VE just found out that Gerry Francis is 1 now a film producer and an actor. While his involvement in theatre is to many a well-known fact, the former Tottenham Hotspur manager and one of our panel of Soccer Masters tells me that he has produced
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      • 362 61 ONE reason Gerry Francis "resigned from football" was a double family tragedy. The other was his children. He said: 'The reason I quit football was, firstly, two of our close family members were in hospital my wife's father and my grandfather were in hospital for three
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      • 663 62 The Tang Quartet will perform their Christmas concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Wednesday, Dec 22. We caught hold of two of them to ask them about football LIONEL TAN, VIOLA When did you start watching football? I watched the golden age of the Lions with
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      • 169 62 WE don't mean this figuratively. Maribel Dominguez (above) may soon be the first woman to play in a men's team. Mexican Second Division Celaya said they expect to sign the women's national team forward by the end of the week, becoming the first men's team
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      494 64 THIERRY Henry is No 1 in Europe. He took over the lead of Uefa's Golden Shoe standings for the first time this season after scoring twice for Arsenal against Chelsea last Sunday, reported uefa.com. Henry was last season's top marksman in Europe and shows no sign of
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    • 59 64 THIERRY Henry needs just 16 goals to surpass lan Wright and become Arsenal's record goalscorer. Wright passed Cliff Bastin's record of 178 goals in Arsenal colours with a memorable hat-trick against Bolton Wanderers in September 1997, reported Arsenal.com. Wright scored 185 goals in total for the Gunners. Henry
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      • 1469 66  -  TEXT: By BRIAN MILLER MATCH 0301: BIRMINGHAM v WEST BROM 5l'»V 1 B*m COWIJH TZt SIQHG I 1X2 WEST MOM 1 1/2 GOAL (THAN t-1 IB) WMdl(*tU) I TOTAL GOAL 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 1 m HALFTIME FULL-TIME 1 2.60 12.00 25.00 g!So 18.00 12.00
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      • 273 66 AFP. JOSE Mourinho has insisted he plans to make no new signings in the January transfer window, despite reports Chelsea have had a bid for Spanish winger Joaquin turned down by Real Betis. "I do not want to sign any players in the January transfer window.
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      • 77 67 DAVID TINDALL JONATHAN TURNER TODAY: Birmingham 1 West Brom 1 Blackburn 0 Everton 1 Bolton 1 Man City 2 Chelsea 3 Norwich 0 Man Utd 3 Palace 0 Boro 1 Aston Villa 2 Tottenham 0 SaintsO —PA Sport MARK LAWRENSQN TODAY: Birmingham x West Brom x Blackburn x
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      • 503 67  -  By] Tay Tze Siong npsports@sph.com.sg Having just returned from Vietnam covering the Tiger Cup group matches, I am still bothered by the slogan: "Anything can happen." As one of my Vietnamese friends pointed out, "Anything can happen" does not apply in the English Premier
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      • 565 68  -  By Edwin Yeo npsports@sph.com.sg BEST BET by Gerry Francis EVERTON'S bubble will finally burst this week against Blackburn. Just kidding. You know I'm no longer stupid enough to go against David Moyes' battling men. They keep winning their games by the odd
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      • 761 69 THE FINK TANK a new way to beat others SUPPORTING a club who have never done well has its compensations. What must be endlessly frustrating is to support a side who once were masters of all they surveyed and are now an also-rans.
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      • 447 71 CHELSEA v NORWICH PA Sport. CRAIG Fleming believes Norwich can make life difficult for Chelsea's big-name stars when they meet the Premiership leaders at Stamford Bridge tonight. Last season's First Division champions have been given little hope of picking up their first away win of the
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      • 409 71 PA Sport. NORWICH striker Darren Huckerby is the key to defeating Chelsea, official Premiership statistics reveal. A win for the Canaries at Stamford Bridge seems unlikely —Jose Mourinho's side have not lost at home, Nigel Worthington's side have not won away—but the 28-year-old striker's form gives his
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      • 558 72 ANOTHER UNBEATEN RUN? Gunners manager Arsene Wenger (below), who was named the BBC Coach of the Year this week, reflects on his side's achievements in the last campaign PA Sport. ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger has admitted his side enjoyed their fair share of luck on the way
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      • 207 72 PA Sport. ARSENE Wenger admits Arsenal's title defence will fail if they do not sort out their costly lapses during set-pieces quickly. The Gunners twice led against Premiership leaders Chelsea, but each time they were pegged back first by John Terry's header from Aijen Robben's
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      • 287 72 PA Sport. THEY did it in 1998 and 2002, and Arsenal's Thierry Henry is convinced they can do it again produce a second-half surge to come from behind, that is. The striker warned Chelsea that Arsenal are used to mounting comebacks. He said: 'The
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  • 426 73 ASTON VILLA v MIDDLESBROUGH THIS Angel wants to give Villa faithfuls the best Christmas gift possible a win in their next match. Juan Pablo Angel is convinced the festive period will decide the course of Aston Villa's season as they look to bounce back from their derby defeat
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