The New Paper, 13 February 2009

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1 68 The New Paper

  • News
    • 914 2/3  -  He punches, kicks, chokes, slaps hurls vulgarities at her Sing Keng Loon newsroom intern SHE knew he was possessive and had a violent streak, but thought she could change him. She was wrong. Instead, she became his punching bag every time he flew into
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    • 226 2/3  -  Sing Keng Loon –SingKengLoon,newsroomintern THIS group of 23-year-old girls are looking to kickstart an awareness programme on dating violence in Singapore. Students Angeline Leow, Priscilla Li, Jasmine Ng and Carmen Lee are doing this as part of their final-year project in their communication studies
      PICTURE: CENTRE FOR PROMOTING ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE  -  226 words
    • 101 2/3 1 EMOTIONAL ABUSE: It includes hurling insults or swearing, belittling, threatening or terrorising a person, destroying property or possessions, isolating a person from friends and relatives, irrational possessiveness and extreme jealousy. 2 PHYSICAL ABUSE: It includes shoving, slapping, punching, kicking, hair-pulling, threatening a person with a weapon
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    • 770 4  -  COST OF TAKING O-LEVEL MATHS AT ITE: $56 REPORT: DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg ALLhewantedtodowastoupgradehimself.Having done badly in his O levels in 1976, Michael decided to retake one O-level subject, mathematics,some32yearslater. Hewantedtoimprovehiscredentials. The 49-year-old, who didn’t want to give his full name, paid $56 to attend a
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  • News Love Triangle Maid Murder Trial
    • 1085 6/7  -  Colleague who found body was too scared to clean crime scene REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg HIScuriosityledtoashockingfind.When construction worker Md Avir dinmaihopenedaheavyboxinthebombshelter,hewasshockedtofindahumanbodyinside. It so terrified him that he refused to wash the blood stains on the floor where the body was found, and askedfellow constructionworker
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  • Page 6/7 Miscellaneous
    • 281 6/7 DBS American Express® Cards Festive Draw Results CONGRATULATIONS! You've each won S$1,000 Takashimaya Shopping Vouchers ODBS Week 1 (27 Nov 08 3 Dec 08) 1. Levy Punsalan Khor 2. Susan Chow Siew Mei 3. Esther Yeo Hui Peng 4. Cheng Hwee Choo 5. Darrer Lee Wan Leng 6. Janny Sulaiman
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  • Local News watch
    • 22 8 SUDDENEXPLOSION:Avehicleexplodedintoflames on the BKE on Wednesday night. The driver was alone and managed to escape in time. PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO
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    • 242 8 8-WEEK STINT TO START IN DEC ENLISTEES who are not fit enough will spend eight weeks in a training programme to prepare them for Basic Military Training (BMT), starting from December. This is twice the time that such recruits spend in the programme now.
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    • 111 8 FIVE stations on the new Circle Line will open to the public ahead of schedule, on 30 May. Marymount, Bishan, Lorong Chuan, Serangoon and Bartley stations were earlier expected to open only in June. Bishan and Serangoon stations are interchange
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    • 104 8 IN ONE of Singapore's biggest corporate scandals, a former boss of a delisted memory chip recycler was jailed for 14 years yesterday for cheating banks of US$23 million. Ang Ah Peng, better known as Ang Peng, KelvinAng, 44,admittedlast monthto 30charges. Twenty-eight
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    • 99 8 THE Singapore search and directory engine rednano.sg was presented with the Digital Market Award by Fast Search and Transfer, a subsidiary of Microsoft and a leading provider of search technologies, in Las Vegas earlier this week. The SPH Search product was described
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    • 796 10  -  Pathologist gives three possible scenarios DEATH OF KIDNEY DONOR REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg WHAT could have happened to Madam Narindar Kaur, who died after donating one of her kidneys to her husband? The mother of three, who was aged 33 when she died,
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    • 550 11 Theirpassionledthemto Nafa’sdance programme, whichgoesfrombasic certification todiploma anddegree courses MANY dancers start auditioning professionally at the age of 17 or 18. By comparison, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) alumnusRickySimhadalatestart–hewas23yearsold when he embarked on his Diploma in Dance. ButNafa’scomprehensiveprogrammesoonbroughthim up to speed. In his last semester
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    • THE CAT TRAPPER
      • 746 12 / 13  -  Animal activists point finger at man who has trapped over 300 cats to be put down SELETAR CAT MURDER MYSTERY REPORTS:TEH TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg HEADMITShe’sresponsiblefor thedeathsof at least 300 stray cats. And yes, he lives in the Seletar estate area, where the bodies of
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    • THE CAT KEEPER
      • 508 12 / 13 HE IS a cat lover who happens to be the cousin of Mr TanTuan Khoon. Mr Lee Chiu San, 62, a former committee member of the Singapore Cat Club, have flown in pedigree cats and shown them in training competitions. The retiree,
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      • 323 12 / 13 IT has been the talking point in the cat fraternity for more than a week now. And the latest is that a donor is willing to pay $5,000 for any leads that could result in catching the culprit or culprits behind the Seletar mass
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    • News Parliament
      • 698 14 / 15  -  S’PORE’SCONTRIBUTIONTOKEEPSHIPPINGPIRACY-FREE REPORT: ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg SCOURINGtheseasforunusualactivi-ty, the helicopter crew radio in their positionand that ofthe target. A fleet of warships heads towards the suspectedpirates to investigate. Thepirates remaindefiant. Allhellbreaks loose. The pirate vessel is attacked before it canharm commercial ships. The next time you read
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      • 308 14 / 15 BAD times impact not only the economy, but security, said Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean. That’swhy Mindefwill not cut down on defence spending during lean periods. But he said the money will be wisely spent to ensure security is not compromised.
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      • 221 14 / 15  -  TRANSPORT MINISTRY HIGHLIGHTS ByDesmondNg. Desmond Ng ...a commuter Fares: Good news: Fares will be adjusted downwards this year. The public transport operators will work with the Public Transport Council on the reduction. Details will be announced later this month. Trains: The frequency of train trips will
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    • 1003 16  -  Aussieman’ssearchforhisson and wife leads him here. He says: REPORT: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg SHE fled the country with their only child last April. Since then, Australian Ken Thompson has been trying to track them down. Mr Thompson, 55, the deputy chief of the New
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

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  • Global News watch
    • Article, Illustration
      44 17 Children jump over bonfire in China’s Guangdong province on Tuesday. As a local folk custom, the villagers light the bonfire outdoors for people to leap over representing the passing of the year and the beginning of the new one. PICTURE: XINHUA
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    • 294 17 ISLAMABAD ADMITS: AFP PAKISTAN yesterday admitted for the first time that the Mumbai attacks, which killed 165 people, were planned partly in Pakistan, and filed a case against eight suspects six of them in custody. India has blamed the bloody 60-hour siege on the
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    • 110 17 AFP THE ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition’s takeover of Perak has been given the thumbs-down by voters, according to a poll released ahead of two critical by-elections. The Merdeka Centre research firm said that 66 per cent of Perak residents it surveyed disapproved
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    • 94 17 BARELY a week into the job, a report has been filed against Perak Menteri Besar Zambry Abdul Kadir with the Malaysian Anti-Corrup-tion Commission. The report was filed in Ipoh by Perak Democratic Action Party (DAP) yesterday, according to Malaysiakini.com They accused the menteri
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    • 102 17 HEALTH officials battling what may be Australia’s worst dengue epidemic in at least 50 years found a third strain of the virus in the nation’snorth-east. It raised concerns that the out- break may turn deadly, Bloomberg reported. Two cases of dengue type-2
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    • 639 18 Thelorrydriver’s mother stands accused of dousing them with petrol and setting them alight HIS heart broke when he was shown pictures of his dead wife and 10-year-old daughter in court yesterday. Even after three years, the pain was as intense as ever. It
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    • 196 18 AP ACTOR Will Smith (right) was voted the most bankable star in Hollywood in a survey of industry professionals byForbes.com Thefinancial magazine’swebsite gives the actor a score of 10 out of 10 forhisbankability in itsfirst“star currency”list,compiled by surveying more than 150 industry
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    • 702 19 Shock claims about Sichuan quake victim (right) who won praise for devotion to dead wife The picture of him carrying his dead wife on a motorcycle after the Sichuan earthquake was splashed all over the world. To many who saw the award-winning picture, Mr
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    • Article, Illustration
      369 20 Cut save? THE US congress has finally agreed to the stimulus plan after making numerous revisions and it will now be voted on by both chambers of Congress before being passed into law by President Barack Obama. OBAMA’SSTIMULUSPLAN What is it? AN economic stimulus plan worth about $789 billion ($1.2
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    • 565 21 He had earlier killed wife for having affair with his close friend SHE had changed her profile on social networking siteFacebookto“splittingupwithhusband”. Mrs Tracey Grinhaff had written: “Been married for 16 years but together for 26! God that makes me soundold.” It just added more
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    • 435 21 AP A VAN travelled for nearly an hour over busy New York City roads before its driver discovered the horrific cargo it had dragged almost 32 km: the partially scraped-away body of a man who was plowed over by an SUV just before
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    • 604 22 / 23 Survivorsreturntotheashestheyoncecalledhome AP A cast-iron pot-bellied stove stood on what used to be the verandah of Mr Peter Denson’s home, the only thing left intact after a ferocious wildfire destroyed most of the wooded township Kinglake. The uninsured 58-year-old carpenter stepped onto a piece of
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

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  • You
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      33 24 / 25 FROM READER RACHEL CHNG BIGCATCH:There’s no stoppingthese anglers when it comes to snaring a big one. The men were seen fishing at a canal along Bencoolen Street. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 284 24 / 25 FROMREADER JOSEPHHOOILIANG LOWERING OF TAXI SURCHARGES OFTEN, I read complaints in the local media of Singaporean cab drivers’ alleged misconduct and misbehaviour. It appears that cabby-bashing has become a delightful pursuit of local commuters. Added to this is the unrelenting demand for
      TNP PICTURE: JONATHAN CHOO  -  284 words
    • 114 24 / 25 1 Another big tourist attraction will be completedin2011 a $140 million river safari theme park. It will carved out of the 89ha Mandai area which houses the Zoo and Night Safari. It will be the first of its kind in Asia. 2 Lifelines for
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    • 362 24 / 25 GEOFFREY LIM, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, MEDIA RELATIONS, LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY WE thank your readers for the letter “Let’smakeourzebracrossingssafer”by reader LiewKai Khiun (The New Paper, 24Jan)andcommentsin“Internethot bites”(TheNewPaper,30Jan). Two principles guide the implementation of pedestrian safety featuresatzebracrossings–toprovide motorists with advance warning of the crossings, and to
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    • Article, Illustration
      44 24 / 25 Should foreigners be the first to go when companies retrench? “No,I think whether they are foreigners or not, re tainm entsho uld be based on their performance. The economy needs capable people and anyone who is capable should be allowedtostay VictorNg,41, managing director
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    • 65 24 / 25 Comments on recommendation to do away with exams for Primary 1 and Primary 2 students: “Ifthe endresult isto differentiatethe goodand bad students, then it is wrong. However, if there is going to be follow-up after the results, then there is merit for exams. Let’snot focus ontheexams themselvesandwhetherthey
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  • Show
    • 219 26 / 27 BANDS struggle to follow up a debut hit album with another, but movie makers often findthat thirdtime isn’t usuallyacharm. Godfather: Part III (1990) Parts I and II won Oscars. Part III turned outsodisappointing thatit’s often ignored by purists. Al Pacino was hitting his overacting stride, and
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    • 1139 26 / 27  -  TheDarkKnightwaslastyear’stop-grossingmovie worldwide, and the late Heath Ledger, who played the villain, has been scooping up award after award. With the film back in local theatres for a re-run this week, infographics journalistJONATHAN ROBERTS asks... JONATHAN ROBERTS OUTSIDE of the gloom of Gotham City, things are looking
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    • 129 26 / 27 Still,thereare exceptions tothe “three’s a curse”rule. Herearesome thatcould persuade Nolan to try for three bats. HarryPotter’s best instalment istodate his third outing The Prisoner Of Azkhaban (2004). The bold choice of director in Alfonso Cuaron elevated the franchise out of the realm of “just forthe kids”. JasonBourne’s third,Ultimatum
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    • 659 28  -  HKactress Kate Tsui says no one would hire if she were a diva notadivaREPORT: notadivaREPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg BOLD, liberal and not afraid to talk about sex. That might be your impression of Hong Kong actress Kate Tsui. After all, in 2006, the 29-year-old former
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      • 176 29 Who was where, and doing what? Here’sa round-up of the latest celebrity sightings in the region and Hollywood WHO: Renee Zellweger, 39 WHERE: Harvard University WHAT: She may be planning to put on the kilos for a thirdinstalment ofthe Bridget Jones’series. But in the meantime, the
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      • 90 29 WHO: Leonardo DiCaprio, 34 WHERE: Berlin WHAT: What could a Hollywood heart-throb and a former Russian leader have in common? The environment, of course. DiCaprio and Mikhail Gorbachev shared the stage at the Cinema For Peace 2009 charity gala at the 59th Berlinale film festival on
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    • Show Travel
      • 531 30/31 Older (travelling to get a lot) wiser Elderly attracted by packages which offer learning on the road AP SO YOU’VE escaped middle age and are ready for the long calm of retirement. What next? If you spend too much time slumped on your sofa, will your mind slide into autopilot?
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      • 971 50 Going forecast: Good RACE1 MS 6.30 -1700m(Polytrack) Stakes:$35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 7422-2 EastCamp 59 (50) JLLi*c4 1 (4nzgDesmondKoh-EastCamp) 2 *****6 Joyluck 58.5 (49) AFeiruz*c4 12 (4nzgRBMarsh-ThunderDance) 3 6-4752 MusicStar 57 (46) MEwe*c2 7 (4nzgSamChua-Music) 4 *****8 Sean 57 (46)
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      • 327 50 YESTERDAY’s workouts by horses engaged at Kranji today: RACE 1: Slow work: East Camp (KB Soo), Joyluck, Music Star (B Tai), Sean, To Be Or Not, Mission Perfectus (V Sivan), Good Day (M Zaki), Fabulous Gem, King Arrive, Shintaro (Sivan). RACE 2: Slow work:
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        341 51 Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Marc Tan Larry Foley RACE1 RACE 2 RACE 3 RACE 4 RACE 5 RACE 6 RACE 7 RACE 8 RACE 9 0 Music 6 Star 11 Dollars Cents 2 Kiwijazz 1 Dragon World 1 Victory Conqueror 1 Howgoodisthat 2 Bing Is Best 7
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      • 1752 51 RACE 1 (1,700m) 1 East Camp???Will not get a better chance to break through for overdue maiden win than this with good form coupled with inside gate and 4kg claim. 2 Joyluck??Drawn badly but shown previously he can overcome that and play a
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      • 112 51 WITH practically no weight on his back, this unbeaten Patrick Shaw-trained speed merchant looks a shoo-in tonight. The Viscount three-year-old won all his four races over 1,200m in super-quick time, his last three in below 1min 10sec. In his last two, he
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      • 317 52 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK KEPT SECRET sizzled in his hit-out at Kranji yesterday morning. The David Hill-trained four-time winner breezed over 600m in 35sec on a good track. The five-year-old should have every chance against a fairly strong lot in Race 7 tomorrow. Workouts by horses engaged tomorrow:
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      • 123 52 TRIAL 1 (test): 1 Posh Express (A Kermond) 2 Don’t Ask (B Tai) 3 En Vogue (A Eirwan) 4Elite(YY Oon).Marginsand time: 1, 11/4,dist (1min03.19sec). TRIAL 2 (test): Happy Ending (M Hairin) 2 Scarlet Juniper (M Zaki) 3 Shen Fu (A Feiruz)4 NobleSpirit (J Saimee). Marginsand time: 161/2,81/2, nk
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      • 319 52 NST NEWCOMER Trump Player looks forward to make a winning debut in the Distributor Stakes for Restricted Maiden horses over 1,200m in Race 5 tomorrow, going by his two-round workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the three-year-old American-bred by Appealing Skier
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      • 248 52 FROM 4 Apr, winning a race in Malaysia will be worth much more. All thanks to a much-needed injection of prizemoney across the board. Starting from the Selangor Turf Club meeting in April, stakes in Malaysia will be the same as those offered at Kranji, but in
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    • Sports Mad About Golf
      • 346 53 ITWASatimelyreturntoformforKar-rieWebb.The former world No. 1 vaulted into an early three-stroke lead in her bid for a fifth Australian Open women’s crown at The Metropolitan Golf Club in Oakleigh, Victoria,yesterday. Webb, 34, Australia’s most successful woman golfer and now ranked ninth in the world, carded eight birdies and
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      • 150 53 NOH Seung Yul snatched the first-round lead at the Maybank Malaysian Open yesterday. And the South Korean teenager did it in style by firing a stunning 10-under-par 62, reported asiantour.com. The highly-talented 17-year-old hit top form at Saujana Golf and Country Club’s Palm course,
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      • 208 53 Reuters MICHELLE Wie is delighted to be back in her native Hawaii. It is the perfect homecoming for Wie as she makes her first start as an LPGA member at the season-opening SBS Open. The 19-year-old Stanford University student earned her LPGA Tour card in December
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      • 84 53 JEROME Ng and Quincy Quek are flying Singapore’sflaginthePhilippines. Ng posted a 145 total after 36 holes to share the lead with Filipino Tonlits Asistio at the WWW-DHL National Amateur championship on Wednesday. Trailing by just a shot behind at Cangolf’s North course is Quek, together
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        664 54 GEORGINA CHANG goes trend-spotting as fashion took centre court in Melbourne THE tennis season is back and the Australian Open courts became a spectacle not just for tennis fans, but for those with an eye for sports fashion as well. Indeed, the Rod Laver Stadium became a catwalk
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      • 466 55 Pete Jenson on what’shappening in La Liga, one of Europe’smost exciting leagues The writer is a Barcelona-based European footballcorrespondent forEngland’s The Independent and The People. TOP OF THE WORLD THERE isn’t that much to shout about for Real Madrid at the moment but they have got the
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      • 244 55 1 Torres is preparing for his first club game back in Spain since moving to England when Liverpool face Real Madrid in two weeks’time. He has NEVER scored at the Bernabeu and always considered it an unlucky ground when he was at former club Atletico Madrid. 42
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    • Sports The Postman
      • 324 56/57 The majority of our readers felt Luiz Felipe Scolari was unjustly sacked and our Letter of the Week winner imagines how the axe might have fallen LETTEROFTHEWEEK ROMAN:Chelseaistumbling down the table after dire performances against our rivals, dropping points against lowly opposition and losing our unbeaten streak at
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        • 64 56/57 Chelseatooimpatient AVRAMGrantwasn’tthatbadwithtwofinalsanda second-place finish in the league. Expectations at Chelsea are too high. Their trophy count is pretty sad with just three titles and even Sunderland have more silverware than them. Whether it’s Luiz Felipe Scolari’s own mistakes or that he was slow in getting things done,
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        • 56 56/57 IF IN the eyes of Roman Abramovich, “Big Phil” is deemed not good enough, then Gianfranco Zola, Guus Hiddink or Carlo Ancelotti couldn’t be any better. The problem lies with Abramovich he is definitely not going to help Chelsea with the mentality he has and the
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        • 65 56/57 CHELSEA’S performances against the Top Three are unacceptable if they want to challenge for trophies. I think Luiz Felipe Scolari has poor tactical awareness in matches. Take the recent match against Hull. Jose Bosingwa should have been substituted early for his poor defending but instead, he
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        • 97 56/57 LUIZ Felipe Scolari may have brought to the club the inability to defend against crosses and set-pieces, the art of grinding out draws at the Bridge and he brought an end to the unbeaten home record that had lasted from 2004 until last year.
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        • 50 56/57 CHELSEA might not have been brilliant but they haveproduced results– exceptforrecentawaylosses to Liverpool and Manchester United, and draws in London derbies with Fulham and West Ham. The team’s play might not have been beautiful, but neither have the results been atrocious. –ChongBoonSen,26,marineclaimsexecutive, Man United fan
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        • 70 56/57 THE AGEING squad that Luiz Felipe Scolari inherited has reached its peak last season and it is time for new young signings to come to beef up both attack and defence. By signing Deco, it shows his cautious nature by going for a familiar player. All he
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        • 65 56/57 IT’S SAD to see a man of Luiz Felipe Scolari’s reputation, getting such treatment at Stamford Bridge. LookingatRafaelBenitez’sperformanceatAnfieldinhisfirst season, he would have lasted as long as Scolari. Roman Abramovich seems to be on a short fuse these days and he has spent millions of his
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        • 78 56/57 LUIZ Felipe Scolari inherited a squad used to winning trophies. Players do not become mediocre overnight. The same fire and will to win that are synonymous with Chelsea seemed to have vanished this season and the onus lies on the manager to rekindle and instil that belief back
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        • 60 56/57 CHELSEA is just another example of Real Madrid’s Galacticos. So good were all the players individually that they sucked as a team. With problems on and off the pitch, the once mighty Chelsea, where its reserve team could easily fill the first team places of
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    • Sports International Friendly
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        667 58 FRANCE0 ARGENTINA 2 (Gutierrez 41, Messi 83) MANY Maradona wannabees have come and gone. Here’sonewholookslikefinallystepping into the mantle of the great one. And even the great one alluded to that. Said Diego Maradona of Lionel Messi after the young Barcelona star scored the killer second goal
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    • Sports A Tribute to David Beckham
      • 528 59 Beckhamis gettinganew lease of life at Milan TOANYONEwhothoughtDavidBeck-hamisnothingmorethanacommer-cialpawn,youarewrong. Former World Player of the Year and Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro is delighted David Beckham is proving he is not past hisbestatAC Milan. Beckham is enjoying an impressive loan spell at the San Siro and Cannavaro
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      • 790 60  -  COMMENT FRANK MALLEY PA Sport PA Sport SODAVIDBeckhammadehis108thappear-anceinanEnglandshirttostandalongsidethe great Sir Bobby Moore as the most cappedoutfieldplayerinEnglishfootballhistory. And it would be churlish not to join in the congratulations. Beckhamhasbeenthemostpatrioticofservants to his country. A splendid ambassador for English football in Spain, the United States and now Italy, and as
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      • 902 61 Of his 108 games for England, Beckham will never forget this match... PA Sport DAVID Beckham is now the most famous footballer on the planet, and lives the millionaire Hollywood lifestyle which goes with the territory. But on a balmy night in St Etienne almost a
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        732 62 Becks equals Moore’smark PA Sport HIDDEN behind acres of tabloid news-print and obscured by celebrity obsession and unimaginable piles of cash lurks a man who has almost everything, but still feels it is not quite enough. Strip away the swirl of excitement which surrounds David Beckham and you
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    • Sports International Friendly
      • 619 63  -  FRANK MALLEY PA Sport WHEN David Beckham made history, coming on as expected at half-time to equal Bobby Moore’s record of 108 caps as an outfield player, the acclaim was generous and deserved. But in truth it was the only thing worth cheering for England fans
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      • 239 63  -  IAIN MACINTOSH SURPRISE WHENDavid Beckhamthreadeda delicious ball throughtoCarlton Cole,there wereanumberof likely outcomes– all ofwhichinvolved thefloodlights being smashed out.Astonishingly though,not only did Cole roundPepe Reina,but heeven putthe shoton target. Suchashame then that CarlosMarchenaslid in to clearitoffthe line. ON FIRE ISTHISthe bestSpanish sideever? It’s certainlythe bestin mylifetime. I could watch
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        438 64 LIM SAYHENG speaks to football analyst TOHARIPAIJAN, who analysesEngland’s shortcomings in their 2-0 defeat to Spain ENGLAND were simply outrun, outwitted and outmanoeuvred by a technically superior Spain throughout the game. But here are two lessons that England can possibly learn from the two goals they conceded against
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      • 654 65 ALESSONINTHE ART OF POSSESSION SPAIN dominated possession and could have scored more than the two goals they got through David Villa and Fernando Llorente. While Marcos Senna patrolled deep in midfield, Xavi was ably assisted by Andres Iniesta andXabiAlonso. Xavi ran the show Barcelona’s little wizard
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    • Article, Illustration
      492 66  -  SPAIN 2 (Villa 36, Llorente 82) ENGLAND0 IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg THERE’Salongwaytogoyet.After an almost flawless first year in charge, Fabio Capello was brought crashing down to earth in Sevillebyabreath-takingSpanishsidewhichtaughthima hardlessoninwhatittakestowininternationalhonours. England kept pace with the European champions for thefirst30minutes,but thenVincente DelBosque’steam openedupthethrottleandleftthemfloundering. Spainweremesmeric,inspiredanddelightfultowatch. Itdidn’tmatterhowcloselyEngland’smidfieldattempted to mark
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    • SPORTS ON TV
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        119 67 FA CUP (5th rd) Tomorrow: SWANSEA CITY vFULHAM Ch 24,8pm WEST HAM v MIDDLESBROUGH Ch 24,10.55pm SHEFFIELD UTD v HULL Ch 23,10.55pm Sunday: WATFORD v CHELSEA Ch 24,1.30am Frank Lampard Senior (Watford’s football consultant) and son Frank (right) are set to go head to head. Who will win the
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      • 31 67 USPGA: AT&T PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM Today: DAY 2 Ch 26,4am Tomorrow: DAY 3 Ch 26,4am LPGA: SBS OPEN IN HAWAII Today: DAY1 Ch 26,7.30am Tomorrow: DAY 2 Ch 26,7.30am
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      • 26 67 ABN AMRO WORLD TENNIS TOURNAMENT Today: QUARTER-FINALS Ch 22,2.30am 7.30pm Tomorrow: QUARTER-FINALS Ch 22, 2.30am SEMI-FINALS Ch 22,9pm Sunday: SEMI-FINALS Ch 22,2.30am FINALS Ch 22,9pm
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        233 67 LOCAL EVENTS FOOTBALL WHAT: FAS Junior Centre of Excellence trials– U-8,U-10and U-12 WHEN: Tomorrow and Sunday (For more details visit the FAS website listed below) WHERE: Open field in Sembawang, beside Block 509C, opposite Wellington Primary School in Wellington Circle WEBSITE: www.fas.org.sg ROAD BIKING WHAT: SMSA Singapore Roadbike ChampionshipSeries
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