The New Paper, 7 May 2001

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  • 35 1 MONDAY, MAY 7, 2001 the new paper MONDAY, MAY 7, 2001 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA(P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS II 111 8 *****1 *****1™ the
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  • NEWS
    • 451 2 Wire services. HUNDREDS of people were killed or wounded yesterday when an overcrowded football stadium in northern Iran collapsed. The accident happened during a bad-tempered match featuring one of the nation's most popular teams. Security forces closed off access to area hospitals. According to
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    • 118 2 June 23,1968 74 killed iri stampede during River Plate v Boca Juniors match in Buenos Aires. Jan 2,1971 66 die while spectators tried to leave stadium towards the end of a Celtic v Rangers match. Oct 20,1982 340 killed during European Cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem
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    • 296 2 SHE had given up all hope. Last year, Japanese rock singer Kirilo's guitar was stolen in San Francisco. Kirilo, who belongs to a punk rock group called Exgirls, was on a tour of the US city. The guitar was later found abandoned
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    • 495 3 On the first day of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's visit to Cambodia, TANYA FONG reports how he struck a high note THE challenge before Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was to scale the steep steps of the majestic Angkor Wat. He gamely accepted it. After
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    • 46 2 Sorry In our report, Lucky Pedestrian (The New Paper, May l) y the managing director of Xie Chun Trading, who was quoted in the report, was identified as MrChing Siew Pin. This is incorrect. Mr Chingis, in fact, the building manager of Far East Shopping Centre.
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  • 652 4  -  SINGAPORE By Yong Shew Fern DOMINOES are supposed to fall. But not by accident. At the launch of Channel U last night, 200,000 pieces were to be set in motion as the grand finale. The hitch was... some of them decided to topple before the cue.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 216 6 HOT STORY SCHOOLS GO HIGH-TECH THIS latest Internet technology should make many Singaporean parents happy. For some parents can now just log on the Internet even from their workplace to keep tabs on their child's progress in school. They can find out information like what
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    • 61 6 Quote Wworthy ON THE RACK: Bigger vs faster in aircraft battle Page 22 Reporters keep asking about CPF. But when I talk to workers and union leaders, they're not talking about CPF restoration. Today, people worry about job security. So, I think we can put the
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    • News Break
      • 74 6 SCIENCE IF the experiment is successful, a British professor of cybernetics and his wife will be able to communicate sensation and movement to each other through chips planted in their arms. They will become the first human cyborgs. The signals from one would be transmitted to a computer,
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      • 71 6 HANDPHONES THEY are young, and they are going bankrupt because of their handphones. More young Australians, including teenagers, are being lured by offers of easy credit and "cheap phones", and running up huge debts on their mobile phones. The number of people under 25 declaring bankruptcy has almost
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      • 71 6 ROCK-CLIMBING IN 1990, only 300 people in Singapore had attempted rock-climbing. Last year ten years on that number grew to over 70,000. Safra senior climbing instructor Amir Moostafa, for example, has seen a two-fold increase in the number of applicants for its courses since he started training climbers
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      • 73 6 UPGRADING AN amphitheatre, a clock tower, a jogging track and other brand-new facilities that's what Nee Soon South residents will have by the end of March next year. The Interim Upgrading Programme will give 715 flats in Blocks 725 to 730 of Yishun Street 71 better amenities,
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      • 67 7 MALAYSIA IF education opportunities for non-Malays were restricted, then Chinese and Indians should have access to more places in educational institutions. But Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who expressed concern about a brain drain yesterday, stopped short of saying whether the quota system a three-decade-long legacy would be
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      • 74 7 THE Singapore Gardens is setting up a bank of frozen sperm and tissue samples of the wildlife in captivity here. The aim: So that it will be able to clone animals in the future. This is to provide a safety net against extinction, and to combat infertility in
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      • 81 7 SMOKERS ZOO SOON, smokers won't need a cigarette to get their nicotine fix tobacco companies are coming up with a mint sweet that will contain as much nicotine as a cigarette. And it is prompting fears that children could be tempted. Called cigalett, the sweet will be
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      • 68 7 MAIDS THE Maid-a-Friend programme was launched by Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee on Saturday to encourage maids and their employers to adjust, compromise and learn about each other's culture. Prof Ho said that ultimately, a measure of kindness can prevent unpleasant situations. The programme also included a workshop
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    • 49 6 International Herald Tribune: Pleading for peace, Pope visits mosque Asian Wall Street Journal: Of farce and foreign affairs: Disparate images of Kim Jong II South China Morning Post: US Falungong members deported New Straits Times: ACA may investigate Umno six guilty of money politics: Dr M
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    • 207 7 Fbcus. NOW, you no longer have to pop down to HDB's branch offices to apply for a resale flat. Nor turn up personally to deposit any forms or go to the bank for a cashier's ordei* to pay the administrative fees. With e-Resale, applying
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    • 46 7 The Straits Times: Non-Malay brain drain fears worry Mahathir The Business Times: Koizumi may have to soften banking reforms Lianhe Zaobao: Channel U launch the start of new times Berita Harian: CDC and town councils seek public opinions Project Eyeball: Turn U on
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    • 48 7 this NOWAY DOWN: School principal Paul Kubena laughing as he watches students file out out of the school's gym in Sterling, Alaska, after they used duct tape to "suspend" him during an awards assembly. The event was a fund-raiser for a class field trip. Picture/ Ap
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    • 521 8  -  By Woon Wui Tek HANG on to your job. Especially if you work in the electronics sector, say the experts. Last year, an Economic Development Board census showed that 105,416 people work in electronics-related companies. Ofthese, now more than 5,000 might lose their
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 508 10  -  By- Tanya Fong SHE was flattered to be told that she had modelling potential. And even more pleased to learn that she could train to be a model for free. So Miss Estee Soh Yien Ping, 21, a private school student, agreed
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    • 87 10 LAWYER Pet.Qr Ong Lip Cheng said Bristol Hanada Industries may not be able to take action against Miss Soh. Said Mr Ong: 'The company has to prove it has suffered a loss. "In this case, the woman has not attended anything, so no contract was breached."
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    • 76 10 THE Consumer Authority of Singapore (Case) received three complaints about Bristol Hanada Industries this year. According to Case spokesman Stephen Loke, two complainants claimed the company had demanded $2,000 when they decided to back out. Mr Loke noted that in the questionnaire, there seemed to be an
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    • 335 10 HE had not threatened her. Nor had he demanded $2,000 from her as a penalty. This is what Mr Terry Qwjue of Bristol Hanada Industries Pte Ltd told The New Paper on Friday. He said: "Many girls have signed the agreement and backed out. And I
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    • 284 11 THE New Paper interviewed three more women who were approached in the same manner along Orchard Road last week. Miss Angie, in her early 30s, went for the interview last Friday. She said: "Three women approached me. "They asked me if I was interested in
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    • 535 12  -  By Low Cheng Ling This is what a man, who went to buy Louis Vuitton bags worth $10,000, wants to know. For, he was told he could not buy more than one item. And you thought it was only happiness
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  • WORLD
    • 352 16 AFP. HIS star has been rising. But now Bollywood's Fardeen Khan's future is in doubt. He has been arrested on charges of possession of cocaine. And papa, popular Hindi film actor-producer Feroz Khan, told Star News that his son had admitted to taking cocaine. But
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    • 182 16 THE baby girls disappeared in India. To surface in Australia. They were bought from poor villagers who could not afford to feed another mouth. Sometimes for as low as As2s ($23.50). Or stolen from hospitals, orphanages and playgrounds. And they are sold to
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    • 334 17 SELL cosmetics and recruit more people to do the same. The more you sell and the more you recruit, the bigger your bonuses. This was the pitch of two Hongkong companies in what were, essentially, pyramid selling schemes. And 15,000 people responded, giving the companies
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    • 392 18 AMERICAN Erik Weihenmayer is going to try to reach the peak of Mount Everest this week. It's no mean feat by any standards. It's even more extraordinary for Mr Weihenmayer, 32. You see, he's blind and has been for 20 years. His blindness hasn't stopped
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    • 130 19 A MAN allegedly beat his wife and then paraded her in the nude, on a motorcycle for about two kilometres around the Malaysian town of Sri Bandi and surrounding areas yesterday. The wife, a 33-year-old Myanmar woman later lodged a police report. 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      87 19 muwnuF Mr Oleg Gordievsky, a former senior KGB officer who became a spy for the British in 1974, disclosed the tricks of his trade to the BBC: In this park, I would leave a container with money, instructions or a letter in a dead letter box. Then leaving
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      489 20 Why the US can't capture him Q Lack of proper intelligence Before setting out on an operation to capture Osama, the US needs specific information. This has been one of the biggest obstacles that the US is facing. Says Mr Paul Bremer, a counter-terrorism expert: H "For that
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    • 110 21 OSAMA left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He received security training from the CIA, according to a Middle Eastern analyst. While in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat (MAK), which recruited fighters from around the world. After the Soviet withdrawal,
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      65 21 USA Today BORN: March 10,1957 FAMILY: Four wives, at least 10 children WEALTH: Inherited US$25O million ($450 m) from his father, a Saudi construction magnate EDUCATION: Public administration degree US BLAMES HIM FOR: Bomb attacks in World Trade Centre, Somalia, US military HQ in Riyadh, US military barracks in
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  • On the rack
    • 220 22 FOR years, US plane-maker Boeing did not have big challengers. Slowly, European Airbus Industrie began to eat into Boeing's market and in 1999, it won the biggest share of new passenger-jet orders for the first time. Boeing likes to portray Airbus as a pampered
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    • 69 22 IT'S a win for Boeing. For carriers, the A3BO risk is now great. Iff you buy a fleet of A3Bos and suddenly the Sonic Cruiser appears, you've invested in a horse-drawn carriage when cars are arriving and that is the analogy. If the Cruiser is for real,
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    • 132 22 BBC. THE world's first sports car to run on rotting vegetables has been put through its paces. It goes from 0 to 96kmh in under six seconds and reaches a top speed of 209kmh. The car runs on gas given off by fermenting organic household waste
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    • 49 22 Spanish adventurer Kitin Monoz's reed boat Mata Rangi 111 leaves Barcelona harbour in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean to Colombia yesterday. The 20-metre boat made of reeds using traditional boat-building techniques has a crew of Spaniards, one Japanese and one Bolivan -AFP. Picture/ Afp
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    • 480 22  -  e WITH MELVIN SINGH TEN is for the average number of hours I spend at work each day. 4 That's how many years I have been with the paper. 73 That's how old I will be before I have earned and saved enough
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Hey!
    • 747 24  -  showtime By Yong Siew Fern AS a photographer, 31-year-old David Tan cannot call himself a professional. It is something he does on the side when he gets bored. And he cannot do it full-time because then he will get bored. Honestly, he gets bored very
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    • 215 24 HE may get models to bare their bodies for him, but David is not about to bare his body for anyone yet. "I live with my parents, you know," he says. So when he was away in Boston, it was the perfect time to
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    • 406 26  -  B r M£ *"'> s M-t Wl 'bti -i, m, g% TF'ty* VlAf r but hi YLt By Carol Leong FAKE flowers have never been so fashionable. Coco Chanel made the camellia her trademark in the 1920s and it's always been around, but their revival began
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    • 77 27 SHOT: Jessica Simpson (left) IN: Santa Monica, California THE ACT: We don't mean to be blunt, but the fashion police should really shoot this girl's fashion consultant. Or at least tell teenybopper Simpson that a scruffylooking cut-and-paste number doesn't pass off as proper dress, if that's
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    • 115 27 SHOT: Lara Flynn Boyle IN: Los Angeles THE ACT: Blink and you'll miss her. The wafer thin Boyle, of The Practice fame, might have looked all warm and snug on Jack Nicholson's arms earlier this year. But if you haven't already heard, it's
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    • 106 27 SHOT: Lucy Lawless IN: Los Angeles THE ACT: She's thrown out the leather Amazonian war dress and picked out a silky, floral, absolutely feminine number. New Zealander Lawless, better known as the formidable Xena, our stronger than an ox Warrior Princess, is seen
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    • 90 28 SHOT: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones (above) IN: Circuit de Catalunya, Spain THE ACT: Catch one of Tinseltown's undeniably best dressed and most glamorous celebrities playing, well, a not-so-glamorous role. Zeta-Jones is playing a British relief worker opposite co-star Kevin Costner, who plays an American
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    • 105 28 SHOT: Charlie's Angels IN: Los Angeles THE ACT: No more gongfu kicks and back-breaking stunts for Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore (above) for a while. But the untouchable stars still pack a powerful punch as they receive their award for Favourite Action Team
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    • 74 28 SHOT: Claudia Schiffer (above) IN: Camp de Mar, Mallorca THE ACT: What's going on? The whirlwind romance between the supermodel and film producer Matthew Vaughn appears to be cooling off, or is it? Some friends insist it has merely lost some of its initial sparks.
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    • 171 29 HE has no qualms about performing in front of thousands of screaming fans. But ask him to sing at a karaoke club and Hideaki Takizawa (right) would turn red in the face. As he's afraid of being mobbed by over-eager fans, the cute heart-throb would rather have
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    • 208 29 CAN you tell that's Hitoe Arakaji (right) in the photo? Without the thick makeup and slick clothes of her girl band days, the 19-year-old former Speed member looks as plain as any teenager. What's more, she seems to have piled on a few kilograms since
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    • 178 29 WANT to scare Japanese R&B singer Sakura (right)? Just show her some braised chicken feet! When she first saw the dish in Taipei last week, she freaked out: "No! No! Is it a child's hand or worms?" Neither. It was a gift from her good
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    • 519 30 Shawn Baharin's latin pop songs have made him the Ricky Martin of Malaysia. Yet the 27-year-old is still too shy to ask a girl out on a date, he tells ERI AKBAR IF you tip the scales at 95kg, girls just don't
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      20 38 TOP DRAW: Two race-goers sporting unique hats op Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 691 41 ASIA cupjutimnottLm mm*** BRIAN MILLER AT THE SCENE Nothing in badminton brings out the passion in the spectator than a doubles match. Perhaps it's because of its sheer intensity and raw power. Like living on the edge. It must be that intensity. And yesterday at
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    • 892 42  -  CHINA THE BADMINTON KING FOR NOW By Brian Miller SO, now we know. China smashed its way to victory in the Asia Cup 2001 badminton tournament. Backed by some vociferous support at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, it lifted the Cup at the expense of a
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    • 92 44 AP, Reuters. CAPTAIN Mark van Bommel scored a goal and set up another as PSV retained the Dutch league title with a 3-0 home win against SC Heerenveen yesterday. The win extended PSV's unbeaten streak to 30 games. It totalled 74 points. Frits Philips, the
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    • 97 44 AP. SWISS defender Patrick Mueller scored in extra time as Lyon beat Monaco 2-1 on Saturday to win the French League Cup. It was the side's first title in 28 years. Mueller flicked in a pass from Sonny Anderson to secure Lyon's victory and 15 million francs
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    • 524 44 ENGLISH DIVISION ONE Reuters. A LATE goal by Dougie Freedman gave Crystal Palace a 1-0 victory at Stockport yesterday. That ensured Palace's stay in the First Division and condemned Huddersfield to relegation following its 2-1 home defeat by Birmingham. Palace, which has not been outside the
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      • 169 45 SCOTLAND AFP. HENRIK Larsson equalled Brian Clair's Scottish Premier League record of 35 goals in a season as champion Celtic routed Hibernian 5-2 yesterday. It was a dress-rehearsal for the Scottish Cup final. This took the Swedish striker's goal total to 53 in all competitions
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      • 357 45 LECCE 0 BRESCIA 3 Wire Services. IN-FORM Roberto Baggio scored a hat-trick in Brescia's commanding win. That took his goal tally to 10 this season. Baggio opened the scoring from a corner kick, surprising Lecce goalkeeper Antonio Chimenti with a curling kick that slipped
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      • 401 45 Reuters. lAZM2BATOO: Juan Veron scored twice as Lazio won its 18th match of the season. Veron hit a volley from the edge of the box in the 25th minute to give Lazio the lead. The Argentine international then repeated it just before half-time, blasting a shot from 25 metres
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        681 46 Zidane scores ITALY MORNING LATEST JUVENTUS 2 ROMA 2 AFP, AP. AN inspired Hidetoshi Nakata came off the bench to score one goal and set up another in the final 11 minutes. That performance helped league-leading AS Roma to a memorable comeback 2-2 draw against top challenger Juventus
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      • 54 46 Alaves 5 Racing Santander 1 Osasuna 1 Real Mallorca 0 Real Oviedo 5 Athletic Bilbao 0 Real Zaragoza 3 Numancia 1 Valladolid 0 Malaga 0 Villarreal 2 Las Palmas 1 Celta Vigo 3 Real Madrid 0 Espanyol 0 Barcelona 0 Real Sociedad 1 Valencia 2 Rayo Vallecano
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    • 144 47 MATCHTAKE ROUND 31 THE RACE FOR EUROPE LIVERPOOL 3 NEWCASTLE 0 Michael owen has revealed that he will open contract talks in the summer, and admitted that he is perfectly happy to stay with Liverpool. Owen (right), in fantastic form in -recent weeks, revealed that the club
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    • 389 47 BOBBY Robson watched a Michael Owen hat-trick destroy his Newcastle side 3-0 at Anfield and told Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier: "You will push Manchester United for the title next season." Liverpool moved to within one win of
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      • 335 48 ROUND 31 THE CRASH ZONE ASTON VILLA 3 COVENTRY 2 GORDON Strachan still managed one of his trademark jokes despite seeing his Coventry side relegated after 34 years in the top flight. Coventry went down to the Nationwide League after Aston Villa came back from two goals
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      • 308 48 WEST HAM 3 SAINTS 0 Coventry joins Bradford in Division One next season after its defeat at Villa, but Man CHy is still in there fighting. Joe Royle's men will contest the final relegation place with Middlesbrough. Derby's shock win over Man U and* West
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      • 216 48 BRADFORD IBOROI TERRY Venables again emphasised he won't be holding any talks on his future with Middlesbrough until the end of the"season. The former England coach was brought in as first-team coach last December to help ease its relegation plight. Boro is still
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      165 49 We are all looking forward to seeing our fans in the Far East again. The support we have in places like Singapore is truly amazing and much appreciated by everyone here. For sure, we are more popular there than in England. The club sends its best wishes to all our
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