The New Paper, 15 January 2006

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  • 20 1 the new paper on Sunday 15 JAN 2006 Hill! 8 i *****1 b *****9 i > MICA (P) 095/03/2005 80 CENTS
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    • 42 1 My dog's life *Can't keep pet mongrel in Boon Lay flat. s he sleeps with dog outdoom^ju|||HMH|H^^HHH|j c; H 11| H 8 ls7lBlM2oooj> MICA (P) 095/03/2005 80 CENTS MffpPPWffPIWIII^M£Ai jL^C I I pi 3|HbHRV I A I T vJ^H Picture KELVIN CHNG
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    • 1224 2  -  Canine AFFECTION HDB FLAT OWNER SLEEPS OUTDOORS LEADS... TehJen Lee jenlee® sph.com.sg YOU love your dog. You really do. But would you forgo your soft, warm bed in your home to sleep on a cold, hard mat out in the streets with him
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    • 202 2 UNDER the Housing Development Board (Animals) Rules 1989, only one dog of an approved breed is allowed in each HDB flat. The 62 approved breeds, generally smaller dogs such as terriers and spaniels, are listed on HDB and AVA's websites. Mongrels, which are predominantly medium-sized, are
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    • 555 3  -  Canine AFFECTION Dog was a mess and badly matted fur caused her to lose leg MaureenKoh maureenk@sph.com.sg SHE beckons forlornly for your attention. You cannot help but be drawn by those doleful, limpid eyes. As you approach her, Baby, a 13-year-old black-and-white Shih
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    • 734 4  -  Mine i ill mma Complaints about cats soar, stray numbers up. Yet cat lovers continue with their obsession CrystalChan crystalc@sph.com.sg ONE woman spends $2,000 a month housing her 120 cats at a pet farm. Another fell sick after one of her 11
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    • 1000 5  -  MaureenKoh maureenk@ sph.com.sg. THE sickly and lonely bachelor spends his days cooped up in a two-room HDB flat. So when a pretty student from China asked him to marry her, the prospect seemed too tantalising to refuse. "My family needs
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    • 188 6 PAY $5,000 and take home a "wife" for a few years. That was a scheme in West Kalimantan that The New Paper on Sunday exposed in November. While visiting the area on another assignment, reporter Esther Au Yong discovered that contract marriages were common among"poor Chinese
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    • 255 7 SLICE OF S'PORE LIFE Yesterday, Singapore had a reprieve from the rain. The sun peeped through the clouds, enticing beach lovers to bask in the warmth. The crowds were out to soak it up at the start of the weekend yesterday with people packing Chinatown
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    • 1137 9  -  S'porean wrote hit LOVE SONG for Andy Lau Reports and pictures JoyceLim joyce)@sph .com. sg SHE has written love ballads for the likes of Andy Lau, Sally Yeh and Gigi Leung. But behind those fascinating lyrics and melodies lie a story of pain and
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    • 164 10 Depression is a common illness but can be treated. It is common in women and people who are single, divorced or have no close interpersonal relationships, said Dr Samuel Cheng, consultant, General Psychiatry, at Institute of Mental Health (IMH). Depression may be treated with the use of anti-depressive medication
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    • 881 12  -  Not if Workers' Party has its way COMMENT ClarenceChang clarence@sph.com.sg "T TOU wake up, open the I Y morning paper and the front -1_ page headline says: Parliament, not the people, to vote for a new President. Under it, a smaller headline: Latest electoral reform change to I
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    • 688 13 PARENTS' PAIN What will become of limbless boy after sick parents die? WHEN he was born, he looked like an egg. Now, 12 years later, Mohamed Rahmat is still as helpless as a baby. Born without limbs, he has relied on his mother completely,
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    • 504 14 PARENTS' PAIN Wind bl6ws candle, lights her dress. HER piercing screams cut like a knife through their hearts. But what hurts Mr Hong Ruixing, 43, and his wife, Madam Li Chunju, 37, most is knowing that they will soon have
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      • 48 15 Without any question, I think life is tragic There are oases of comedy within it. But, when the day is done and if s all over, the news is bad. We come to an unpleasant end. American film-maker Woody Allen, in an interview with The Guardian
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      • 84 15 SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong has launched the Singapore-India Partnership Foundation, which will give awards for outstanding individuals to make study visits. The foundation also aims to promote better ties between the two countries. The first recipient is Dr Rakesh Mohan, deputy governor of the
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        50 15 THIS is festive fare at Vevcani village in Macedonia. But, don't worry. Those are not actual servings of human heads. Villagers merely dress up as heads cm plates to perform ancient pagan rituals. The festivities are part of a carnival for the feast of St Vasilij. picture reuters
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      • 85 15 BLAME the weather in China. Prices of lokam (a type of mandarin orange) have gone up by 10 to 15 per cent over last year, Malaysian newspaper The Star quoted one importer as saying. Harvests have been poor because of low rainfall in Zhang Zhou and Yong
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      • 118 15 A JAPANESE scientist is studying laughter and how it may tickle genes and cure diseases. Geneticist Kazuo Murakami has teamed up with stand-up comedians, who he hopes can turn one-liners into efficient treatment. His tentative theory is that laughter stimulates genes, triggering energy inside a person's
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      • 184 15 TOP UNIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD GATHER IN S'PORE THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is planning to offer joint and double degree programmes with top overseas institutions. It is part of a new grouping called the International Alliance of Research Universities. Other members include
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      • 185 15 THE US said it was targeting Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri. Instead, the strike allegedly killed 18 residents of a Pakistani village near the Afghan border early on Friday. "Al-Zawahri was not there at the time of the attack," said a senior
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      • 53 15 A US high school assignment on Internet pornography was cancelled after parents complained. Students in Cleveland, aged 14 and 15, had been asked to research pornography online and list eight facts about it. They had also been asked to write about their personal view of the subject and their
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      102 16  -  Danger-for-dollars: When fundraising isn't fun AvisWong A aviswongOsph.com.sg Continued on next page I IN 2000, Darren Lim (top left) kissed a cobra which had not boon defanged. Last year. Jack Neo (bottom left) stuck his tongue into a rotating fen in an attempt to stop the f
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    • 1304 17  -  From previous page AvisWong aviswong@sph.com.sg WHAT does it take to touch your heart? What kind of appeal will get you to part with some of your hard-earned cash? Going by the fundraisers we see on TV at least four times a year, the recipe
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    • 295 17 WHAT would make Singaporeans pick up the phone to donate? Not seemingly dangerous stunts performed by our local artistes. According to a poll of 50 TV viewers, conducted by The New Paper, the focus should be on the patients rather than the stars. If TV fund-raisers
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    • 107 18 Nancy Sit suggests comedy skits, pitting residential districts against each other in a fundraising competition, and getting artistes to auction off their clothes (Zoe, are you reading this?). Concerts or shows graced by mega-watt stars (The Prince's Trust, a youth charity set
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    • 250 18 NKF SHOW 2005 ($12.08 m raised): Jack Neo sticks tongue into rotating fan; 4-tier human "wedding cake" 2004 ($14.3 m): Sharon Au walks on swords; darts are shot at Ho Yeow Sun's back; Zoe Tay tests memory with hidden knife; Jack cavorts with bees 2003 ($13.3 m):
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    • 420 20  -  EdwinYeo tn p@sph.com. sg YOU know what? That song from The Wedding Singer is right. Love stinks. To all you romantics out there, here's the truth! Love stinks, and true love stinks the most. Why? Because if you look at the world's great
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    • 372 32  -  Sunday N»w« you can u«e' YeohWeeTeck weeteck@sph .com. sg THE year has barely started, and you're probably rushing madly to survive the crush of holidays. But before you can work off your Christmas weight, there was the Had Raya break. And then, there is the Year of
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      127 33 At the Annual People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles last week, the stars all seem to send the same signal to their fans: Talk to the hand! Miss Congeniality so distant: If you're so afraid of falling out, Sandra Bullock, wear a proper dress the next time, instead of
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    • 290 34  -  SylviaToh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg WHAT with the wet wet wet week, many wanted to stay in and curl up in bed. And that's exactly what these people did in public. All in the name of art, of course.
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    • 255 35  -  SylviaToh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg Put the lid on Undiscovered All right, which bright spark uncovered this Sherman (it is so going to-tank)? Boy bumps into girl in New York. He moves to LA, bumps into her again because she also moved
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  • 463 38  -  Guide WendyTeo teo wyw@sph.com.sg IT'S not usual for a man to tune in to entertainment news. But for Mr Daniel Yu, chief operating officer of Focus Films, it's his daily staple. "I need to know what's happening in the business, it's my job,"
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    • 30 39 Microkillers Week National Geographic (StarHuo Ch 11), 9pm This documentary series explores how microscopic killers like malaria, bird flu and ebola cause a heap of damage all over the world.
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    • 114 39 Hero Honda 12th Annual Star Screen Awards Star Plus (Star Hub Ch 41), "Op", Besides star performances, this glitzy Bollywood awards show held in Mumbai features nominees from Sarkar to Black, Amitabh Bachchan to Shah Rukh Khan, which are judged by a jury of eminent personalities of the film industry.
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    • racing
      • 161 40 (Race 7 No. 2) BEST BET on sfcnday Your guide to the flnteh Hue With a 3kg pull in weight for a 3'/ 2 -length defeat, Full Force can turn the tables on his conqueror Bintang Melang over 1,800m this afternoon. His run was impressive considering that he
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        264 40 1 15 Rousing Wind 11 Fast Flying 8 Lucky 'JTSafe 7 Cyber Express 13 Rousing Wind 10 Main Power yjl 111 to 2 10 The Swordsman 5 Diamond Command 8 Honest General 10 The Swordsman 11 Leading Dancer 7 Fire Heart 6 Feel The Power 10 The
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      • 802 40 (GOING FORECAST: GOOD) 12.45 RACE 1 C3 02 -^1400m (LC) 1 SEPTEMBER SILENCE DAzis 6) 57 2 SPEEDY NANCY SSani 4) 56.5 3 FABULOUS STAR NAzman (11) 56 4 GRANDORE Rlim 1) 56 5 SPEEDY MOMENT SH Lee 5) 55.5 6 CIRCLE OF UFE KM Lai
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    • 490 41 GOING: GOOD Racel The Tibradden Handicap 1200m 6 PiKI VTMBS4.5 (39-13) Mc*niMy (5) 1 2 JKTU 156.5(14-6) OOltaara (4) 2 3 MM SHE JRJI56 (77-19) JWWttnf (6) 3 Trabmr FR Kersley. MerglBs:ly«, 2y«, shd. Time: Imin 12.3sec. Forecast $53 (one-way only). Tlaree: $293. Race 2 Resolution Handicap
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    • 242 41  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg RACE-GOERS can't seem to have enough of Shark's Fin. And those who kept faith with the Ashkalani gelding in Race 7 at Ipoh yesterday would have made enough to tuck into quite a few bowls of the culinary equivalent for dinner.
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    • 812 41 GOING: GOOD Race 1 Maiden (Restricted) Div 1 1200m fl 1AKURA ZAKA 55 (12-7) 0 Ch«v« (9) 3 2 1 11 ma Mftfil 53.5 (22-6) SArundin (10) 1 1 2 1 LtVH.YfiOBUi.55(169-19) KWleonq (3) 5 7 3 Warning liable: Turl Cap. Traiaer Prakhash Pereira. Margies: Nk,
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  • sports
    • MAD ABOUT GOLF
      • 674 42  -  AlDizon npsports® sph.com.sg THINK again if you reckon golf is a low-intensity sport a leisurely 6km to 7km walk that takes four to five hours. A closer examination of the nitty-gritty of the game reveals a series of exact movements that J are completed at quite
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      • 900 43  -  LeonardLau npsports® sph.com.sg NO doubt, there are moments when sports journalists feel that they have contributed to making Tiger Woods what he is today. They tell themselves that they are part of the reason Woods has had more impact on golf than any other player
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      • 351 44  -  LimHan Ming npsports@sph .com. sg HE was aiming for a top-five placing. Singapore's Lam Chih Bing had hoped to finish among the leaders at the Asian Tour Qualifying School Finals which ended yesterday. That would have enabled him to qualify for co-sanctioned events on the
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      • 804 44 SONY OPEN AP. CHAD Campbell and Jim Furyk each shot three-under 67s and were tied for the lead after the second round of the Sony Open. However, the field will go into the weekend without Michelle Wie who failed to make the cut. But, as
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      • 461 45  -  LimHan Ming npsports@sph .com. sg HE has never shot an under-par score in a professional tournament before. Singapore's top amateur golfer Choo Tze Huang is 18 holes away from achieving that rare feat. The 18-year-old national serviceman fired an even-par 72 in the third round
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      • 480 45 GOLFERS in Singapore heaved a collective sigh of relief over the last two days. After days of incessant rain, sunny skies returned on Friday and yesterday. In one of the worst rainy spells, torrential downpours battered the island since last Sunday.
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    • 900 46  -  rMl Leßron v Jordan AlDizon npsports@sph.com.sg TO many, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever. But was he the greatest-ever NBA rookie? The New Paper compared his achievements on the court during his 1985 rookie year at the Chicago Bulls with high-flying Leßron James of
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      871 47  -  ErnestLuis npsports® sph.com.sg SHE'S one spunky principal who believes in sports as much as she does in studies. And Toh Boon Keng who heads Yio Chu Kang Primary School doesn't make empty promises either. For example, the 56-year-old has sent, and even accompanied, her junior and senior school
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    • 419 47 SPORTS is not about making instant noodles of success. As principal ofYio Chu Kang Primary, one of Toh Boon {Ceng's biggest concerns is the attitude towards expecting guaranteed success in sports. "It's easy for expectations to be very high today," she says. "Sometimes, it's the parents. Other
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      595 48  -  Foreign players not guaranteed place on national team, he says ErnestLuis npsports@sph.com.sg THEY may be foreign-born talents-turned-Singapore citizens for the sake of helping in Singapore's sporting dreams. But that does not mean their places are automatically guaranteed in the national teams. Nor does it mean they can expect
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    • 433 49 ERNEST LUIS and infographics journalist FADZIL HAMZAH present this year's line-up. Zainudin Nordin The 42-year-old Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC MP is still a weekend warrior, and plays aotively for the FAS staff team as a striker. FAS CHIEFS Winston Leo S-LEAGUE CHIEF EXEC. OFFICER/ FAS CHIEF
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      956 50  -  ErnestLuis npsports© sph.com.sg How does the Sports School blend into the national set-up? After all, the best players may still be at other schools? Prof Ho: The Sports School is a partner of the National Football Academy. Not every good player goes to the Sports School. That is
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    • 201 50 Is the national set-up right now, down to the formation of the Under-21 team, at its best so far? Prof Ho: Yes, the football eco-system that is emerging in Singapore is something we have worked on for a few years now. I think we
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    • 179 50 Raddy Avramovic's two-year contract extension follows that of four other staff national youth coaches who have also signed new deals. They are Robert Lim, Lee Bee Seng, V SundramoorthyandKadirYahaya. Now, another ex-intemational Terry Pathmanathan joins assistant national coach Fandi Ahmad to help Avramovic manage
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    • EPL
      • 594 51 SUNDERLAND v CHELSEA Wire services. CARLTON Cole is looking to cook up a storm in the coming weeks. Chelsea's former England Under-21 international has put goals on the menu as he looks to stake his claim for a permanent place in Jose Mourinho's first-team squad. With
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      • 250 51  -  TEXT BY: BRIAN MILLER TEAM UPDATE: All's not well down Wigan's way. They've got a long injury fist and it won't help their chances. Lee McCulloch is still on the treatment table. Striker David Connolly is nursing a hamstring situation wile Ryan Taylor and Emerson Thome
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      • 262 51 TEAM UPDATE: What a time for the Black Cats to meet the champions. Frank Lampard's back. So too John Terry, Petr Cech and William Gallas. There has also been talk that Jose Mourinho might give youngster Lassana Diarra a start. However, Michael Essien will not travel. Sunderland
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      • 505 52  -  By Adrian Curtis SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT HAT-TRICK hero Thierry Henry equalled Cliff Bastin's scoring record with a stunning hat-trick as Arsenal hit Middlesbrough for seven at Highbury. Arsenal dominated the game and were 4-0 up at half-time thanks to Henry's brace and two others from Senderos and
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      • 254 52  -  Round-up By MikeK Mike Rimmer SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport. BRYAN HUGHES scored against his old club to heap more misery on struggling Birmingham as Charlton ground out a 2-0 win at The Valley. The Blues handed a debut to Chris Sutton, and dominated much of the game.
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      • 778 53  -  By John Curtis SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Marlon HAREWOOD was again the scourge of Aston Villa as Alan Pardew's side came from behind to halt their recent Barclays Premiership slump. Harewood had grabbed a hat-trick when the Hammers thrashed Villa 4-0 at Upton Park in September. This time,
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      • 296 53  -  By Duncan Bech SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport FULHAM midfielder Steed Malbranque celebrated his comeback from injury by heaping further pressure on under-fire Newcastle boss Graeme Soilness. Malbranque showed no rustiness as he buried the only goal of the match after coming on as a second-half substitute. Antti Niemi
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      • 232 54 MANCHESTER CITY 3 MANCHESTER UNITED 1 Wire Services. MANCHESTER City boss Stuart Pearce saluted his side's strength of character after the 3-1 derby win over Manchester United. City put their recent poor form behind them to carry the fight to United. "We had taken one point out
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      • 472 54 AFP. SIR Alex Ferguson leapt to the defence of Cristiano Ronaldo, Patrice Evra and the rest of his under-achieving Manchester United side after Saturday's emphatic 3-1 defeat to Manchester City. The defeat, which will leave United 16 points behind leaders Chelsea should the champions win
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      • HAPPY AFTER EVRA?
        • 338 55 MANCHESTER CITY 3 MANCHESTER UNITED 1 Patrice Evra was signed from France's Monaco for £5.5 m (sl6m) earlier last week to solve the lingering problem of the leftback position at Manchester United as Gabriel Heinze recovers from long-term injury. But he fumbled against Manchester City, unwittingly helping them
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          205 55 Ernest: At 1.75m and 76kg, Evra is not far off in physical size from Trevor Sinclair (1.79m, 78kg), the man whom he was up against last night. Yet, for most of the first half, he struggled against Sinclair. Even his stability wasn't there, as he fumbled too easily sometimes
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          176 56 Ernest: Evra was clearly overwhelmed by the speed of the game the English play. Plus, it was a no-holds barred English derby. Manager Alex Ferguson's explanations will never make up for actual exposure. Evra was certainly baptised in fire yesterday. And he did not respond like a
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        • 88 56 Ernest: In the 40th minute, Evra strangely headed the ball back to his 'keeper Edwin van der Sar, with City's strikers lurking on the edge of the box. Luckily for him, van der Sar ran out quickly to collect the ball before it was intercepted. Taking that into account,
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        • 60 56 Ernest: Remains to be seen as he mostly allowed Ryan Giggs to do that, instead of overlapping. Tohari: Not in the same class as Chelsea's Asier del Homo or Heinze. He wasn't fast enough in overlapping last night. Maybe because Giggs was in front. Maybe because he was
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          131 56 Ernest: 3 OUT 10 Well, Ferguson yanked him out at half-time. So the boss himself was the harshest. No running away from a nightmare debut. Yes, he should really be given time, but when a world-class club like Man U sign a player, time is not a luxury. The
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        684 57  -  MANCHESTER CITY 3 (Trevor Sinclair, 32nd min, Darius Vassell, 39, Robbie Fowler, 90) MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (Ruud van Nistelrooy, 76) ErnestLuis n psports@sph .com. sg YET again, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson underestimated his opponents and the occasion. First, last weekend's goalless draw with Non-League team Burton
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      • 606 58 Thafs Trevor Sinclair's view of scoring in the derby MANCHESTER-born, City-raised winger Trevor Sinclair presented his own perspective prior to the Manchester derby when he said: "Scoring in the derby is better than sex." The former England international (right) found the back of the net just after
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        656 59  -  LIVERPOOL 1 (HarryKewell 59thmin) TOTTENHAM 0 WangMengMeng npsports® sph.com.sg KEWELL and Keane. Two K's. One killer. Former team-mates at Leeds, re-united at Anfield, Harry in the red of Liverpool and Robbie in the white of Tottenham. How well it was all scripted. Third versus fourth. Winner versus loser.
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      • 340 60  -  JOL: I'M BETTER THAN RAFA ErnestLuis npsports© sph.com.sg IT'S about who has done better, not who is better. And yes, I agree with Tottenham Hotspur's Dutch manager Martin Jol on his claims that he's done better than Liverpool's Rafael Benitez. Yes, Spurs were in bigger
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      • 476 60  -  JeffreyOon npsports© sph.com.sg MARTIN, stop spouting rubbish. How can you say that when you've yet to win anything in your time in England? How dare you when, despite fielding a full side, your team lost to mighty Leicester of the Championship in the FA Cup!
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      • 42 60 LET'S hear from you, Liverpool and Spurs fans, and others as well. Tell us what you think of Martin Jol's comments. Email your views to npsports@sph.com.sg by midnight tomorrow. For emails to be published, please include your full names.
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    • 190 61 onlsundax m KteMng off your woteend H PA Sport. WHO do you think has done better Martin Jol at Spurs or Rafa Benitez at Liverpool? Jol thinks it's him. Both managers are in their second seasons in charge of their respective sides, but Jol feels
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