The New Paper, 27 February 2005

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    • 52 1 M m mm m Ml:EURASIAN LEADER'S SUDDEN DEATH He celebrated mum's 90th birthday in hospital just 4 days before he collapsed, says close friend TAIWAN SHOCKER B into pieces. A CEIVFQ MM? 2005 a Spore yuppies' good Jobs here t 0 4 K But oi weekends they head for drugs
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    • 743 2  - S'PORE YUPPIE GO OVERSEAS TURN WEEKEND DRUGGIES They risk career suicide if arrested. But some professionals still head for KL and Bangkok for weekend parties laced with drugs PENALTY Those caught taking drugs, even when overseas, can be jailed for up to 10 years or fined $20,000, or both. KorKianBeog
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    • 315 3 Most of them do not consider themselves addicts. But many show a frightening and blase attitude towards drugs. Said Roger: "It's a lifestyle choice. I can stop whenever I want to." The New Paper on Sunday spoke to three yuppies who regularly attend
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    • 582 4  -  YuDDies, druaaies, overseas parties IN S'PORE N KL Seto Nu-wen seto@sph.com.sg Roger, a 34-year-oid Singaporean financial executive, parties hard in Kuala Lumpur. Once every two months, he swops his business shirt and tie for party clothes, and heads north in a bus. In KL,
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    • 966 6  -  Most times in past years, we've eaten more eggs than we collect. The big egg is from taxes and fees. The golden egg is laid by the precious goose representing Singapore's savings net income from our investments. When we spend more than we get, we're eating a
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    • 399 8  -  *Wow, unbelievable Bryna Sim brynasim@sph.com.sg TAKE this reading test. Never come across some of these words? Then you are probably (a) a mugger, (b) muggerish or (c) muggerified. Which is to say, you are not in the know about the latest lingo in junior
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      612 9  -  Eurasian leader Bryan Davenport dies unexpectedly LOOKS BETTER, THEN HE'S By Joycel yn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg HE had sung at the top of his voice to celebrate his mother's 90th birthday. Never mind that they were in hospital or that he was a patient. That was the way Mr
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      • 108 10 note., worthy He said, i think in an amusing way, 'What did they do to me now?" referring to the tracheotomy operation. And then he added, 'But i am always tod us tuus/ a prayer to Our Lady, meaning that I am completely in your hands.
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      • 77 10 RESCUE helicopters plucked people to safety from a revolving restaurant on top of a blazing 25-storey building in central Taiwan yesterday. Four people died inside. Police winched nine people from the roof of the Golden Plaza Tower in Taichung City as smoke poured from the upper
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      • 77 10 FORMER US president Bill Clinton will arrive here tomorrow for a two-day visit. He will meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Mr Clinton has been in Asia, touring tsunami-hit
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      • 156 10 PAP WOMEN MPS, FAIRPRICE AIM TO GIVE KIDS A LOVE OF BOOKS THEY will have Enid Blyton and the Power Puff Girls. And other books that will interest children. More than 20,000 picture and storybooks will be made available at reading corners islandwide under a
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      • 105 10 A MILITARY judge on Friday sentenced three British soldiers to prison for abusing Iraqi civilians detained for looting humanitarian aid in Basra. Daniel Kenyon, 34, got 18 months, Mark Cooley, 25, two years, and Darren Larkin, 30, five months. All were dismissed from the service "with disgrace".
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      • 177 10 PALESTINIAN security services swung into action after a suicide bombing left four people dead and 30 wounded outside a Tel Aviv disco late on Friday. "We have arrested two people for interrogation," Palestinian Interior Minister Nasr Yussuf said. He did not identify them, but a
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      • 48 10 The last remaining bottle of the world's oldest single malt whisky has been taken to an airport shop in Hong Kong from its distillery in Scotland. Previous .bottles of the Glenflddich Rare Collection 1937 sold direct by tjift familyvowned Glenflddich. Distillery fetched the equivalent of $31,000 each.
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    • 514 11 Man accused of sawing off wife's head and limbs. He says he was... WITH less than a week to Chinese New Year, an IT engineer's house was still untidy. He blamed his wife for not having done spring-cleaning. Upset that she spent most of
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    • 148 11 HONG KONG'S most famous loo Qeft) has been given the official thumbs-down after staff members were rude to customers. The solid-gold, gem-encrusted HK$38 million ($7.9m) toilet at the jewellery store in Kowloon was deleted from Hong Kong Tourism Board's good service accreditation scheme. Forty one people complained
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    • 565 12 ;|(|»says you haveto look likoMargaret-Thatcherto; ■MHMHIIItJpS woman in p*w||||^^^pS SHE'S the newly-elected Prime Minister of a nation of 48 million people that spans more than 800 times the land area of Singapore. Yet, she represents the resource-rich nation of the Ukraine in razor-sharp stiletto heels, tight lacy-sleeved shirts
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    • 177 13 Thai parliamentarian Janista Liewchalermwong, 33 A SEAT in the Thai parliament is not all that glamorous former TV star Janista Liewchalermwong has won in recent months. The 33-year-old was recently voted the most charming female politician in Thailand by the Durex Global Survey for the second time.
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      226 13 Member of Indian Parliament Jayaprada FROM Telugu cinema to Bollywood. The switch was easy. Her classic looks made her a favourite star of the '80s. After having conquered the south Indian audience, Jayaprada moved to the bigger world of Hindi cinema. Success followed. Her crowd-pulling power was
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 145 6 k A t Dad, all my friends have laptop computers. Can I have one too? Oh dear, something new to pay for every day. Tuition classes, utility bills, mortgages... All more than my $2,000 monthly pay. Hah?! You're going to cut my pocket money to pay for the computer? Ya
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  • Hey! It'sunday!
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      517 14  -  When celebrities start sharing addresses, life can never be the same. Or can it? Wendy Teo teowyw@ sph.com.sg FOR this star-studded condominium, it all started in 2002, when actors Pan Lingling and Mark Lee hit it off on the set of drama serial Lucky Numbers. Both happened to
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    • 493 15 FROM foes, they became the best of friends, then neighbours by choice. Now, they are as close as family. As actress Quan Yifeng put it, colleague Bryan Wong's home is like her niang jia (Chinese for a married woman's parents' home). Yifeng, 32,
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    • 265 15 RELATIVE to its small size of about 30 units, Bryan and Yifeng's condominium is chock-a-block with celebrities. Darren Seah (left) and, apparently, Lynn Poh, also own units there then. She could not be reached for comment. Darren, 28, used to rent a condominium unit in the Newton area
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    • 542 16  -  Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg THERE'S this movie, opening soon, called Hitch. In it, Will Smith stars as a "dating expert" teaching men how to go about charming women and getting dates. We know that Hollywood has been uninspired for a while, but little did I suspect that
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    • 407 16  -  Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg MY friend reads a story to his son every night at bedtime to (a) improve his son's English, (b) develop artistic genius, and (c) put the little pest to sleep quickly. Since my friend's English is as inspiring as Phua Chu Hang's, I
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    • 499 17  -  From underwear-dad customers to 'mad' receptionists, it's all in a day's work for FedEx courier Norjan Mohd Said Esther Au Yong estheray@ sph.com.sg IN the course of his work, he has seen people clad in almost nothing. Some have just a skimpy towel wrapped around them.
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    • 498 18  -  Dolores Tay tnp@sph.com.sg WE human beings are funny creatures. Besides our penchant for destroying the earth, we have also taken to creating terribly expensive weapons with which to destroy each other, which we then sell very expensively to the very people we may eventually kill. Some highly-evolved
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    • 638 18 Surprisingly, it was quite easy to make conversation with shop owner Ryan Wong, despite being surrounded by toys of an intimate nature. Ryan had invited me to his shop of, well, novelty items, to satisfy my curiosity. As we talked, Ryan suddenly opened a drawer,
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    • 391 18  -  ABOUTIAST NIGHT Rachel Raebum tnp@sph.com.sg AS A Eurasian, I never truly understood the significance of Chinese New Year and the customs that accompanied it. I used to dread the house visits that my husband adhered to faithfully during the festive period. That was until this
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    • 406 19  -  Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg AS I watched the guy in front of me key in his identity card number at the driving centre, I got a shock. His number started with "84". He wasn't even born when I failed my driving test the first time. I have finally joined
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    • 622 20 CHIN Guan and Ivory met in Australia while pursuing their degrees. They then returned to Singapore, got married two years ago and now hold good positions in their respective disciplines. Although they are still deeply in love with each other, both admit to getting caught
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    • 674 22  -  Johnson Ong tn p@sph.com.sg ONE day, when I first moved to where Tin living now, I was waiting for the lift with one of my new neighbours. He started a conversation with me that became somewhat one-sided, since my sole contributions to the exchange
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 481 26 I ffcv! I Television THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY February 27,2005 Pa Switch orimm Reality check J JeanmarieTan H Bedazzled lolopi^opm' 2>> I^jjlH Tonight, 7.30pm This season, it's all about If Satan looked like Elizabeth Ro^ndTmber! C UP e u| I LK '!W Hurley in one red-hot outfit after While
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    • 676 27 HOL/I I Television PAPER ON SUNDAY February 27,2005 Page 2 Switch on Channel 5 Channel U Channel 8 Suria Kids Central Discovery 9:ooam I 7th Heaven 10:00 am I A True Cop 10:00 am I Bright 9:001 Healthy lOKKtowj Teenage (Drama) Story(Drama/ Sparks/The Eco Lifestyle 10:001 UEFA Episode 18) Warriors
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  • 694 28  -  WPlMBMi ,;V Jjajlfch. '|R V A J A* E IPS sffl In Wk M V S'pore video-on-demand company signs landmark deal with four major Hollywood studios Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg THE concept of video-on-demand never seems to die, despite years of being stillborn in the marketplace. Otherwise known
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  • 247 32 IN HONG KONG -tedv AFP. HONG Kong's obsession with handphones has taken a new turn as a survey found a quarter of all phone owners were under 13 years old, with some as young as 6. Sixty-seven per cent of the 613 households interviewed by Ming
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  • 382 36 tech- AP. WITH more and more workers gulping down coffee and lunch sometimes even dinner at their keyboards, tens of thousands of germs can be found in nearly every corner of the office. They are lurking beneath the papers and files,
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  • 229 38 tech- AFP. JAPAN sent a rocket into space for the first time yesterday since a humiliating failure 15 months ago. The H-2A, which carries a US$l55 million ($253 m) satellite that can forecast weather and navigate aircraft, took off through overcast skies at
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  • racing
    • 207 40  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg IPOH trainer Chong Keng Leong (above, right) is the man to watch this afternoon. Of his four entries, Tiger In The Hunt (Race 1) and Cook The Books (Race 5) warrant attention. The Tiger needed the run at his first outing this
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    • 173 40 COOKTHEBOOKS (Race 5 No. 7) Ipoh trainer Chong Keng Leong almost had the last laugh when he sent out Cook The Books at three-figure dividends on Feb 13. The Key Business gelding looked to have the 1,200m race at Kuala Lumpur sewn up until race favourite Baby Sun
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    • 116 40 RACE 1: Crystal King, Jezzagh, Wonderful Fame, Lim's Feature, Northern Music, Smithie's Gold, Tiger In The Hunt, Kuala Dipang. RACE 2: Crystal Peak, Offensive, Golden Energy, Proud Tycoon, Lucky Pioneer, Swift Justice, Contentment, Midnight Reef, Maca. RACE 3: Cliff Of Thunder, Motion. RACE 4: Conspicious, Big Kash, Land Mark,
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      242 40 Racing Editor Marc Tan il IIM.II. Ml. INI- I III llll Deputy Racing Editor Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon 9 Tiger In The Hunt 10 Kuala Dipang 4 Wonderful Fame I 8 SPEED RANGER* I 3 Cizen Champion I 4WonderfulFam^^Jj 4 Wonderful Fame 3 Cizen Champion 5
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    • 334 41 ♦RACE 1, Singapore Feb 19 meeting: Last Monday, trainer L Laxon, when questioned regarding the apparent improved performance of GOOD PROSPECT (M du Plessis), stated that in moderate opposition, GOOD PROSPECT, from an inside barrier, was able to go forward and be able to
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    • 1030 41 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer) 1 000-0- CRYSTAL KING 57 (61) TAsogan 5 (7nzg M Breukelen-Hot Money) 2 1-040 JEZZAGH 57 (61) SMarzuki 10 (7ag Williams-Winning Smart) 3 1-2283 CIZEN CHAMPION 56 (59) SHOh 9 (4nzg Robert-Paint
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      337 42  -  JM B i JH fPH* iiiPtk ffiPm W i## Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg IT WAS third-time lucky for Singapore-based Terfel in Dubai on Friday night. The Daniel Murphy-trained five-year-old showed the benefit of his sixth and subsequent third placings to capture the US$llO,OOO ($180,000) Maiju International Rated Stakes
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    • 661 42 GOING: GOOD I tfj iTlTiiW ■■■■iflMfltfHflHHIHIHiHHHIHHIHHIHHHiHHHiHHHMMtttttiUiHHHMHflllHHHHftHiHiHHftSAiAflicJHHHUlll 14 IMPERIAL DECREE 50 c 51 (12-7) lAzhar (9) 4 1 1 (459) i 5 SHE'S DASHING 52.5 (80-20) PVeilaikannu (14) 2 2 2 (427) 13 MAGIC TIMING 50 (21-7) BTai (11) 9 7 3 (465) I Winning stable: KWB.
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    • 182 43 TOP-RATED Zugar was the punters' choice in yesterday's National Stud Farm Sprint Vase but it was Imperial Cross who landed the RM60,000 ($25,800) feature for horses sold in Malaysia. Although he was 28 points, or 14kg in handicapping terms, lower than Zugar's Class 1 rating of 82
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    • 1199 43 ♦RACE 1:3 Universal Komissar 4 Cannonise 6 Gung Ho ♦RACE 2:3 Joyful World 6 Quick News 1 Lucky Cordelia ♦RACE 3:1 Super Brose 4 Honour Supreme 6 Winning Counter ♦RACE 4:10 Mold Ransom 1 Daneprint 2 Red Fireball ♦RACE 5:9 Floral
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  • sports
    • 843 44  -  The ffi Sportv BOSSES V We continue the series on top bosses in Singapore with a genuine passion for sports along with professional ambition. ERNEST LUIS links up with JAMES WOO, the vice-president of information technology for Starhub Limited, who feels strongly about helping the
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    • 431 46 WORLD OF GOLF THAI star Thongchai Jaidee put himself back in prime position for another successful title defence when he opened up a two-shot lead after the third round of the US$2OO,OOO ($320,000) Myanmar Open yesterday. The Asian Tour No 1 birdied two of his closing
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    • 421 46 AP. THE final eight golfers left in the World Match Play Championship include three Australians and just two of the top-10 seeds. Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are not among them. The top three seeds were sent home on Friday from La Costa,
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    • 126 46 JAPAN'S A 1 Miyazato struck turbulence for the first time in the Australian Ladies Masters but she will still take a three-shot lead into the final round today. The 19-year-old carded a two-under 70 for a 201 total after 54 holes to lead Sweden's Cecilia Ekefundh, with
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  • Page 47 Miscellaneous
    • 875 47 I I I Singapore Pools will offer three new bet systems for football starting tomorrow. But they apply only to the S-League HB I mm, f OT now > mt overseas football leagues. They are "Pick the Score\"First Scorer' and"Last Score/. ERNEST LUIS and ...with Ernest Luis and the Kopi-o
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    • 594 48  -  S.LEAGUE Lim Han Ming npsorts@ sph.com.sg "NEXT two!" The unmistakable booming voice of Sinchi coach Ding Zhe filled Jurong Stadium as he called for the next two participants in a practice drill. Drenched in perspiration, the Sinchi footballers were too tired to respond to the
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    • 180 48 NO coach in Sinchi's short history have lasted one Ml S-League season. In two seasons, the Chinese club have changed four coaches. Ding Zhe, 39, will be Sinchi's top man this season. The club have set two targets for him. The first is to
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    • 112 48 SINCHI FC will move back to Jurong Stadium this coming season. The Chinese team had shifted their base to Hougang Stadium following the lightning incident which killed Prime League player Jiang Tao, 18, a year ago. To commemorate Jiang's death anniversary, Sinchi will be holding
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    • 404 49 CHEN BO (captain) H Date of birth: Aug 20 1974 Height 1.87 m Position: Defender Previous club: Liaoning The burly defender cuts an intimidating figure on the field and is a nightmare for any striker. He reads the game well and is a powerful header of
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    • 973 50  -  WgL IBiR 4. US! I e H i i iii I JL JL i 1 lT *iv \~.-a- Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg ITS that time of the year again. Rivalries resume next week when the new S-League season commences. For the die-hard punters, nothing beats a
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    • 244 51 HANDLING a squad of young footballers is not an easy task. Managing a team of young and dashing footballers, who are expected to have female fans clamouring at them once the season begins, is doubly hard. Ichiro Otsuka, Albirex Niigata's 40-year-old
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    • 386 52  - Play to win the Shahril way Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg THIS used to be his playground. Now a national hot-shot with a Tiger Cup medal under his belt, Shahril Ishak has never forgotten his roots, the place where he learned the ropes of the Beautiful Game. Picked by sportswear giants
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    • 135 53 NIKE'S "Play To Win" campaign is designed to reach out to Asia's football-crazy kids. Some of the world's greatest players and Singapore's elite stars learned football and developed their signature styles from the way they explored off the pitch. Hence, Nike's "Play To Win" is all about
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    • 168 53 Play to win the Ronaldinho way Ronaldinho started by making waves playing in the sand. Now, he's making waves playing football on grass. "In THE summer, my friends and I would take the bus to the beach and play football in front of the waves. "I grew up in a
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    • 700 54  -  TEXT: BY BRIAN MILLER TEAM UPDATE: Celestine Babayaro is back to full fitness and will probably start. Manager Graeme Souness will make checks on Jean-Alain Boumsong (back) and Kieron Dyer (viral infection) before naming his side. Bolton could field on-loan defender Vincent Candela. FORM GUIDE: Newcastle took time-out for
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      • 516 57 LIVERPOOL v CHELSEA (TONIGHT) Reuters. CHELSEA midfielder Frank Lampard hopes a victory over Liverpool in tonight's League Cup final in Cardiff will mark the beginning of an era of sustained success for the London club. "It's very important to win trophies. I hope this
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      • 141 57 AP. CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho has said that Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard spent five minutes in the changing room of referee Anders Frisk during half-time of their Champions League game. "Rijkaard was in the referee's changing room with him for five minutes. I
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      • 149 57 Reuters. CLAUDIO Ranieri, who was sacked as Valencia coach on Friday just eight months into his second spell in charge, says he takes full responsibility for his failure to get the best out of the Spanish champions. "I have always tried to create a group of players
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      • 940 58 The New Paper's football analyst TOHARIPAIJAN tells WANG MENG MENG that today's Carling Cup Final will show the world how good a manager Jose Mourinho really is. IT will be very interesting to see how Jose Mourinho will look like at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
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      • 688 59  -  LIVERPOOL v CHELSEA (TONIGHT) Wang Meng Meng npsports @sph!com.sg IF dazzling footballers such as Ronaldinho and Zinedine Zidane are likened to Ferraris, what does that make Steven Gerrard? A tow truck, probably. Judging from his performances of late, this could not be further from the truth
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        681 60  -  Aston Everton ......................3 By John Curtis SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport Aston Villa: Solano (46) Everton: Osman (17,63), Cahill (48) Kick-off 3pm (UK time) ASTON VILLA: Sorensen, De la Cruz, Mellberg, Ridgewell, Samuel, Solano, Djemba-Djemba (Hendrie 56), Hitzlsperger, Barry, Angel, Moore (Vassell 62). Subs (not used): Laursen, Postma,
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      • 197 60  -  Crystal Palace ....2 Birmingham CHy..O By Tom Collomosse SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ANDREW JOHNSON fired home two penalties to earn Palace a vital victory over Birmingham. The result was a miserable return to Selhurst Park for Birmingham manager Steve Bruce, whose team were unlucky to be
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      • 807 61  -  By Chris Brining SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport TOTTENHAM'S 'SpecialK partnership of Fredi Kanoute and Robbie Keane struck late to end manager Martin Jol's London derby misery at White Hart Lane. Jol blamed Tottenham's poor record in London derbies on their rivals' extra motivation to beat them and
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      • 286 62 SOUTHAMPTON 1 ARSENAL 1 PA Sport. SOUTHAMPTON boss Harry Redknapp branded David Prutton "foolish and irresponsible" after he was sent off for "two stupid rash tackles" in the 1-1 draw with Arsenal. Saints were reduced to 10 men when Prutton, already booked for a bad
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      • 697 63  -  SOUTHAMPTON 1 (Me?) ARSENAL 1 (Lungberg4s) Ernest Luis npsports@ sph.com.sg ARSENAL cannot seem to stem the virus that is spreading to almost every department in their team. If it was the central defence's fault during the midweek Champions League loss to Bayern Munich, then it
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      • 45 63 VILLA 1 Solano 46 EVERTON3 Osman 16,67, Cahill 48 PALACE 2 Johnson 39pen, 68pen BIRMINGHAM 0 TOTTENHAM 2 Kanoute 78, Keane 90 FULHAMO SAINTS 1 Crouch 67 ARSENAL 1 Ljungberg 45 Late match Man U v Portsmouth Today Boro v Charlton Newcastle v Bolton
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