The New Paper, 1 January 2005

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  • 26 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 2005 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.ajia I .com.sg I Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: MICA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 U the
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  • NEWS
    • 1009 2  -  S'porean volunteers help search for her By Tan May Ping and Sim Chi Yin tnp@sph.com.sg SHE'S asthmatic and almost blind without her spectacles. And the 15-year-old girl was missing. Her family was worried as she had mysteriously vanished from her Johor Baru home without
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    • 217 2 TWO women and a man were arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a 6-year-old girl in Johor Baru on Sep 27,2003. The girl was abducted as she walked along a pathway after her ballet class at Taman Molek. She was released unharmed three days later
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    • 1144 3  -  Day of the KILLER WAVE IN PHUKET She has no ID and doesn't know where she's from Embassies can't get info from her She tries to escape a few times a day Only clue to her identity? Her leg tattoo REPORT LOW
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      560 5  -  Day of the KILLER WfltfE Joycelyn Wong and Low Ching Ling tnp@sph.com.sg Joycelyn Wong and Low Ching Ling S'POREAN'S MUDDY IC IN PHUKET HOSPITAL THE pink Singapore identity card caught his eye. It was covered with mud, and was lying among stacks of unclaimed passports and other identification
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    • 513 5  -  By Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph. com.sg THE lights went out and there was a crash. He ran to open the door of his villa, and water came rushing in, pushing him and everything in its way. Chairs, tables, and the bed slammed against Mr
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  • NEWS
    • 541 7  -  I Day of the KILLER WAVE COMMENT KOR IIAN BENG com NIKKI had just been told his uncle had drowned in Phuket. The Thai guide rushed home, grieved for a few hours and then went to Phi Phi island. The 41-year-old insisted there were others who
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    • 405 8 Ms Yap Meili, 32, lawyer A class of'96 law school graduate from NUS, Ms Yap Meili was holidaying in Beruwela on the south-west coast of Sri Lanka over the Christmas season. She was there with her Belgian boyfriend, who survived the disaster. The bubbly and
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    • 106 8 OBSERVE a minute's silence,* wherever you are, at noon tomorrow. That will show solidarity with migrant workers here whose families have been affected by the tsunami, and all who have lost loved ones in the disaster. Migrant workers in construction, cleaning or domestic work and Singaporeans
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 362 9 PM says we are doing better than expected AMID all the death and destruction in the region, Singapore has some reasons to cheer. In his New Year message, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that our economy has done better than expected, growing by 8.1 per cent
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    • 151 9 CONSTRUCTION workers at a worksite in Geylang counted their blessings that their new year did not start with a bang. Mr Chin Seng Kong, a foreman in his 40s, was shocked when he saw one of his workers carrying an unexploded World War II
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    • 86 9 THE ban on live duck imports from Perak will be lifted from today. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority has accredited 36 duck farms which can export to Singapore. The birds will probably start arriving here on Monday. But the ban on individuals bringing in poultry and poultry
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    • 111 9 A BLAZE in a Buenos Aires nightclub celebrating the New Year holidays killed at least 169 and injured 375, city officials said yesterday. The blaze is thought to have been caused by a flare being fired into the club's ceiling, sending burning debris onto the
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    • 100 9 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has appointed a new chairman to lead its 12-strong board of directors, said the Trade and Industry ministry yesterday. Mr Simon Israel, who is also the Asia Pacific chairman of French food and beverage giant Group Danone, starts his term today.
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    • 93 9 AT least 31 people died and 10 were injured in a fireball when their bus rammed into an oil tanker in southern Pakistan yesterday, police said. The victims included 12 children. Most died on the spot when the bus hit the tanker, which burst into
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • 660 11  -  Family spends $150 a month on hair products for mum and two girls, but it's worth it, says dad SINGAPORE By Bryna Sim brynasim@sph.com.sg MADAM Rosni Amin's hair is as long as basketball superstar Yao Ming is tall. And it took 22 years for her flowing locks to
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    • 213 12 i V < l >«■.««,»»„ OPENED I 4W*"H Ev yp^k uglS 14 15 16 "M In 2004, we opened more than 55 stores, bringing our total to more than 260 stores islandwide. This year, we are on course to hit the 300 mark, which means that grabbing a bite or
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  • 529 13  -  SINGAPORE Dry and well-lit Cleaned at least once every hour Fitted with smear-free soap dispensers, powerful hand-driers and hands-free automatic sensor taps By Jaclyn Lim jaclynl@sph. com. sg STAINS on the wall, wet tissue strewn on the floor and seats stained a disgusting colour. That's the state
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    • 536 13 Win a BMW 645 Ci Cabriolet in our 125 th Anniversary Draw. I Ba part of the moment. Earn 10 additional chances whan you sign up for mobile line now. Plus, earn 1 bonus chance for every 20 minutes spent on IDO calls in January. Noto 3120 Nokia 2660 Nokia
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  • 522 15  -  Bachelor takes to the catwalk with seven other singles vying for Mr Mars and Miss Venus titles at SDS* New Year's eve dinner-dance SINGAPORE By] Dawn Chia da wn ch ia @sph. com. sg GIRLS, girls, girls. That's his problem. Mr Muhd Nasir
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  • 372 17 It may become law for models to undergo health checks WORLD THIN is not in, not in Israel anyway. The country may pass a law requiring all models to undergo weigh-ins every six months to ensure they are not underweight. Almost one in seven of
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  • 392 19 WORLD FOR three years, spinster Gail German lived quietly in her small cottage near Newport in UK and kept quiet about her £957,667 ($3 million)' win. It was only at her funeral that family, friends and neighbours found out that she
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    • 528 21 They sizzled, thrilled and were stuff of your daydreams—Fiona Xie and Julian Hee are your chosen babe and hunk of the year. WENDY TEO and SHEELA NARAYANAN report I NEVER win all three ah? That was Fiona Xie's reaction, when we called her
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    • 529 22 Maybe it's all in the genes, but this hunk suspects mum might have had a go at SMS-ing... AT LEAST he was man enough to admit it. Yes, Julian had voted for himself to be Hunk Of The Year. All of $2 worth.
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    • 259 23 You voted, we've got the results, you may have won... Shocker Of The Yean THE MEDIA MERGER THIS is the story that grabbed your undivided attention: The media merger BcBhA between local giants Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and MediaCorp. SPH's TV unit, MediaWorks, and its free
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    • 78 23 OUT of the 5,960 SMS votes sent, we have 24 winners in ail for Lexmark's All-in-One Photo Print Center X5250 worth $269 each (above, left), as well as New Era's Club Football games worth $59.90 each. Winners of Lexmark's All-in-one Photo Print Center X5250: *****79A, *****86D,
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    • 227 23 1. SHOCKER OF THE YEAR (Total: 347 votes) A) Media Merger —130 B) High-Profile Drug Bust 75 C) Shankar Aiyar Molestation Trial —68 D) Sylvester Sim's Money Mess 74 2. BABE OF THE YEAR (Total: 1,331 votes) A) Fiona Xie 585 B) Jacelyn Tay
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    • 242 23 YOU really didn't like Florence's poodle-do, did you? The 40-year-old Singapore Idol judge made armchair fashion critics scream in horror when she appeared on the show with the curls from hell. You probably agreed with the stylists who told The New Paper that the hair
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    • 312 24 A PART OF ME Kurt Nilsen THE fiinny thing about this Idol series is that sometimes, being No. 2 is better than being No. 1. Witness Clay over Reuben. And, of course, our very own Sly over Taufik. Even on the World Idol stage, this Norwegian fellow
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      496 25 STORYTELLER Raghav GIVE me something else besides the same old stuff. This Canadian of Indian origin takes the safe road for his first album which can best be described as N'Sync meets Craig David meets Bollywood. Here's the good part of Storyteller the songs are listenable and Raghav has a
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    • 566 26 Page 28 PRIME TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Saturday, January 1,2005 Out-renovate and out-design That's what couples have to do in this concrete jungle-style Survivor TWmodl'STeenagers are transported to a 1950s |g J SUALLYI don't like reality TV shows. where their 11 I think most of them stink because they begins
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    • 904 27 THE NEW PAPER/Saturday, January 1,2005 Page 29 12.15: The 11.00 am: True 12.00: Come To i"?h!2!£h, 11-Mam: 12.30: Insight JJOOsCSI 12.00: ll.OOem: I Nation's Love My Place Po' I.S Ho,ida Special 4- Miami- Everybody's civilisations Countdown (Drama/Debut) (Drama/Episode 4) V Yn J Vu Telemovie Through Hell Entrance Loves Raymond I
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  • Tech
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    • 326 29 AFP. JAPAN has launched a pilot Internet programme that aims to have 20 per cent of the nation's work force "telecommute" from home by 2010. This is expected to minimise stress and family disruption caused by office life. Currently four million Japanese, or 6
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  • 340 32 TECH Reuters. AT Lawrence Livermore lab in northern California and other national labs, US scientists are hard at work devising new inventions to monitor dangers that could stem from future terrorist attacks. One such device is a black box about two-thirds the size of a refrigerator
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    • 386 42 NST. JOEL JEST wound up his preparation for the Class 5 Div 2 event over the 1,100m straight course in Race 2 tomorrow with a smart workout yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the five-year-old South African-bred gelding by Caesour sprinted smartly over the final
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    • 175 42 Marc Tan Danny Khoo Michael Lee Marc Tan Danny Khoo Michael Lee 7 CtMen Hunter It imperial Decree 3 Cfassy Dwin 7 Green Supporter 14 Strathmore Power 4 Contentment 12 True Aristocrat 14 Strath more Power 12 True Aristocrat 8 Super Ggar 10 Royal Dancer 7
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    • 420 42  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph.com.sg THE racing folk up north are suddenly all rapt about James Winks. With a resume that spews "country rider", not much was initially expected from a 21-year-old greenhorn who was looking to improve on his Bendigo and Echuca
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    • 91 42 Ninetynine Action (Race 3 No. 4) It's true that he has not set Malaysian racetracks alight but this Tiang Kim Choi-trained four-year-old was not beaten too far behind in his four runs. The way he finished off his races—from 1,000m to 1,400m suggest that the step-up to the
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    • 68 42 RACE 2: Time To Celebrate, Contentment, Super Cigar, Fire Starter, True Aristocrat, Celebrity Stalker, Strathmore Power, Parkway Prosperous. RACE 4: Celebration, Emperor Zoom, Stately Affair, Brilliant Star, Sphritzer, Kim Hero. RACE 5: Break The Bank, Alpha Indah. RACE 6: Dragon Victory, Double The Fun, Revolution, Horse King. RACE 7:
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    • 1277 43 PJHRfH Maiden Divl 1.45 HlMiB 1100m (straight) Stakes: RM2S.000 Wo. last i rum HORSE Wt Rating Jodtey Barrier (Ago/origin/sex. trainer) 1 70- HANDSOME BOON 57.5 (53) *J Nizam c3 12 (4nzg Zafir-Han Emperor) 2 -53 OFFENSIVE 57.5 (53) SSam 5 (4ag
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    • 382 43 MRB BMW-Perth Cup Quartet 4.20 -3200m Stakes: AS3SO.OOO Mo. Last 6 raw HOUSE Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Age/oriqinftex. trainer) 1 ***** FREE AT LAST 54.5 T Turner 16 (6am A Mathews) 2 ***** TUMERIC 54.5 J Carte 12 (8ag A Mathews) 3 ***** SIR
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    • 1297 44 GOING FORECAST GOOD TO FIRM TIPS FROM HONG KONG MEDIA RACE 1 1 Legionnaire 2 Wisdom Express 8 Cash King 11 Lucky Encounter RACE 2 3 Good Trio 7 Supremacy 1 Sir Octavius 6 Saintly Partners RACE 3 5 Grand Master 7 Lucky
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    • 559 44 RACE 1: Happy New Year! A winning start would be nice, wouldn't it? EASY GAME (3) has been bound for this class to bounce back up again. If he doesn't win, Good To Great (4) may because a similar
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    • 247 45 The New Paper tipsters, comprising Racing Editor Marc Tan, Deputy Racing Editor Danny Khoo, Tan Thean Loon and Michael Lee, have six wishes for the 2005 season. It is our hope that racing officials take a serious view of these wishes and make them come true for
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    • 123 45 WISH NO. 2—The weights and ratings, which are released to the press on Mondays, and the stipendiary stewards' reports, which are released on the same evenings after the races, are important sources of information to race-goers. The Singapore Turf Club showed the way and the PenangTurf
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    • 167 46 WISH NO. 4—Hidden saddlecloth numbers are a bane to trackwatchers. Sadly, after five years, the problem still persists at Kranji. Which brings us to the question If the majority of trainers can ensure that saddle-cloth numbers are displayed property, why can't
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    • 128 46 WISH NO. 5 Good horses attract attention. And the best horses make for better and bigger turnover. Something is not right when good horses are balloted out in favour of their poorer cousins. A case in point was the Dec 10 meeting at Kranji last year.
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    • 154 46 WISH NO. 6 It's a fact that the Singapore Turf Club is not up to the mark in handling racing from too many centres. A good example was on Dec 12 test year, when the club telecast races from Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong (Sha Tin
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    • 68 46 WISH N0.3 it is a shame that Trackform (left), considered the Bible of local racing, is no longer available to race-goers. The authorities should seriously consider bringing it back. Cost should not be a consideration in this regard. Trackform has been a useful information tool
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  • 755 47  -  GOLF: CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS JAN 27-30 SPORTS By BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph. com.sg WITH the Caltex Singapore Masters presented by Carlsberg set to thrill local spectators from Jan 27 to 30, it's pleasing to see that the two stars of the show have been "warming up" for their
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      • 658 49  -  LIVERPOOL v CHELSEA Liverpool host Chelsea tonight. Here's a very strange phonecall I made to Lee Sharpe for a preview of the match WEEKENOSHOW with Ivan Lim pjlim@sph.com.sg Hello Lee, how are you? I'm fine, Ivan. (He doesn't sound fine. He's either desperately hung
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      • 311 50 MINDY'S MIND ITS a new year tomorrow and I am still capsule-living, in a spaceship vacation. It's all about the stuff that surrounds you. Tear down your wallpaper, now s the time for something real. This reality is living out of the box. I didn't feel the reality
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      • 1637 51  -  Welcome once again to the Weekend Show. This week, my guest is percussionist Albert Louis, who was once a team-mate of Dollah Kassim and a band-mate of Anita Sarawak mi with Ivan Lim pjlim@sph com.sg IT is a pleasant surprise for me when I get a
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    • Tiger Cup 2004
      • 455 52 MALAYSIA v INDONESIA (First leg: 2-1) THAT is the approach Indonesia's coach-cum-manager Peter Withe will be bringing into Monday's Tiger Cup semi-final return leg against Malaysia at the National Stadium in Biikit Jalil. Withe, although surprised that his team trail 1-2 going into the match, nevertheless
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        566 52  -  SINGAPORE v MYANMAR (First leg: 4-3) By Gary Koh npsports@sph. com. sg DON'T be cocky or over-confident, Lions. Any letting down of the guard with any streak of complacency can ruin Singapore's mighty hope of making it to the Tiger Cup final. While the Lions' defence
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      • 200 52 THE decision to postpone the second-leg tie between Malaysia and Indonesia has met with mixed response, with some unhappy that their plans had been upset. Malaysia team manager Datuk Seri Dr Ibrahim Saad, for one, is hoping that the postponement of the match to
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      • 153 52 Bernama. THE footoallers are lending a very big helping hand to the tsunami disaster victims. The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) will be making a donation to the victims of the tragedy, which has left thousands across South and South-east Asia dead and many more injured
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        461 53 TOTTENHAM v EVERTON TOTTENHAM'S RISE 1N... PA Sport. JERMAINE Defoe won't forget 2004 in a hurry. The 22-year-old admits things couldn't have gone better in 2004 from his move to White Hart Lane in January to his first England call in May, first England goal in September and first
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        440 54 TOTTENHAM v EVERTON EVERTON'S RISE 1N... PA Sport. EVERTON midfielder Thomas Gravesen believes his team-mates can play with confidence now they have reached the 40-point mark in the Premiership. The 28-year-old Dane has played a vital role in his side's brilliant start to the season. Now Everton finish the
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      • 305 54 PA Sport. DAV® Moyes believes Richard Wright could play his way back into the England squad during the six weeks when he will be standing in for the injured Nigel Martyn. Veteran Martyn damaged a calf muscle during the defeat at Charlton on Tuesday, with Wright
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      • 338 54 PA Sport. DAVID Weir believes talk of Everton's demise will only spur them on to maintain a Champions League challenge. The 2-0 defeat at Charlton was their first since losing to Chelsea on Nov 6. It did, though, result in Everton being
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    • 310 55 Win r 4 rll)') ilf 1 T [4l J ■EOESi^| mnu fl x I 3 Aston Villa 3 C Pa lacevs Aston VII la J |f 805 Man CltyvfSouthampton7805Bi rm inghamvsBotton J!p nmg cm. V CHE-V BQU.V MP.-V WKHHM ARB...* S*»vue jwibbl* Irom i pn onwards on m*dl d»n \rh},p(
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    • 311 56 FRANK MALLEY'S HALF-TERM VERDICT: JOSE Mourinho might not be the most popular guy in English football. He's a bit too pushy and arrogant for that. But the Chelsea manager is a man of his* word. The day he arrived in the English
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    • 125 56 Arsenal, who earlier this season completed a record-breaking sequence of 49 straight victories, should not be discounted. On his day, Arsene Wenger undoubtedly has the best first XI. There is no player in the Premiership to match Thierry Henry as a goalscorer and creator, Patrick Vieira remains
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    • 97 56 Manchester United remain a team in transition, at times brilliant, at others ordinary. There is no more thrilling sight in the Premiership than Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs running at defences with Wayne Rooney applying magical brush strokes alongside. But it happens too inconsistently and while they
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    • 314 56 No prizes for spotting the team of the season so far. That has to be Everton. Selling your best player is not normally a career-boosting decision but since Rooney left Goodison Park, manager David Moyes has forged a team morale which
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    • 258 56 Whatever the final outcome, football with falling attendances and viewing figures needs a shining example from 4 the second half of the season. It needs less diving and cheating, more respect for referees, fewer Adrian Mutus and more Frank Lampards, an end to racism, both in
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    • EPL SATURDAY SNAP BETTING
      • 663 57 THE FINK TANK a new way to beat others CHELSEA five points clear, millions in the bank, new training ground have been complaining. Their manager believes they are playing too many games in quick succession. Now, it's hard for anyone but a fan to feel
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      • 255 58 (Figures show computer predictions of percentage chance of full-time scores. Circled scores are FinkJestein's predictions) r 1 Ml IM.ICIM DANIEL FINKELSTEIN'S (f-igures show computer predictions of percentage chance of 1 MiM ll full-time scores. Circled scores are FinkJestein's predictions) k A k THIS WEEKS
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        181 59  -  by GERRY FRANCIS It's a tough round of fixtures to start off 2005. Squads are suffering injuries with the games coming fast and furious in this hectic schedule. The season is halfway through and Norwich have yet to come to terms with the Premiership. Portsmouth have grown from
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      • 354 59  -  By Tay Tze Siong npsports@sph. com.sg HAPPY New Year, everybody! As a new year gift, I am going to recommend two matches which I am quite confident of winning. First, I think Aston Villa will lose to Blackburn. Why? As I mentioned before, the team with a
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      • 659 60  -  By Edwin Yeo npsports@sph.com.sg FINALLY, Everton gave me enough reason to have a happy New Year. It's about time they lost a game and, thanks to Charlton's perseverance, my daughter didn't have to eat plain porridge on New Year's Eve. I'm tempted to ride on this
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      • 106 60 PA Sport BBC Online DAVE TINDALL TODAY: Aston Villa 0 Blackburn 1 Bolton 1 West Brom 1 Charlton 2 Arsenal 2 Fulham 0 Crystal Palace 2 Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1 Man City 1 Southampton 1 Middlesbrough 1 Man Utd 1 Newcastle 2 Birmingham 2 Portsmouth 3 Norwich 1
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      • 2257 61  - Text: By Brian Miller TEAM UPDATE: Steve Finnan took a nasty knock against Southampton and will sit this one out. Djibril Cisse is still not available and Milan Baros has a slight hamstring woiry. Chelsea don't have any major sickies in the squad. FORM GUIDE: Liverpool will take to the
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        1748 63 LIVERPOOL v CHELSEA AS the new year rolls in today, most people will be looking for a change for the better. But not Neil Mellor. The Liverpool wunderkid would like nothing better than for 2004 to not end. Since Oct 30, when French international Djibril Cisse broke his
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      • 1285 64 LI VERPOOLv CHELSEA RAFAEL Benitez is confident his injury-plagued Liverpool squad can kick off 2005 in style by blowing a hole in Premiership leaders Chelsea's current aura of invincibility on New Year's Day. The former monarchs of English football entertain the current sovereigns in the first
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