The New Paper, 23 April 2003

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    31 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 2003 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com. sj Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 02S/03/2003 60 CENTS 88 the new paper
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      60 1 n I I j C r V. u t Don t care in Hokkien Page 4 m, V.. ,.*A:*;m v iP®S P*1 w- vf&S •.'iiV'jtejft HMIi<:.- .:K,H V fffv" I -l' Told to wait for ambulance, Sars-hit family went to Serangoon coffeeshop instead Residents living above shocked and upset PM
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
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      Lock icon How could they have done this? — ask residents
      776 4  - How could they have done this? ask residents PM CALLS FAMILY WHO VISITED COFFEESHOP IRRESPONSIBLE BY Andre Yeo THERE'S no mistaking the Prime Minister's tone, even if his words were written, not spoken. If Mr Goh Chok Tong were to read out his open letter last night to Singaporeans and
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      Lock icon Dear Fellow Singaporeans and residents, Help us fight this war
      1074 5 primes $naafior2< Saturday, I appealed to n ISingaporeans to exercise R\ personal responsibility in our Ml fight against Sars. m Only when you follow faithfully |Mh all the rules, procedures and recommendations we have put in [■■E place to contain
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      Lock icon Hotel's exec staff go on island-wide veggies hunt
      762 6  -  BW Angeline Song Perspiring furiously, hotel food and beverage manager Vincent Chio busily unloaded cartons of pineapples and watermelons from the boot of his Nissan Cefiro late yesterday morning. He and executive chef Andy Yeo had just returned from visiting three wet
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      Lock icon Cabbies: Who's checking on passengers?
      539 6 SOME cabbies are taking their temperatures to protect the passengers. But who is protecting the cabbies? That is what taxi drivers want to know. And justifiably so. After all, a taxi driver contracted Sars from a vegetable wholesaler going to the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market.
      PHOTO JOURNALIST HEDY KHOO  -  539 words
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon More asking about serviced offices The reason: Sars
      503 7  -  By Desmond Ng DONT be too V surprised if 1 your boss 1 tells you to clear out of your office. Chances are you're not being given the sack. It's just another sign of an upsurge in serviced offices industrv. These fully-equipped
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      Lock icon MOST COMPANIES WANT TO WAIT AND SEE
      107 7 MOST companies have not yet committed to isolating their departments. The serviced office operators said many are adopting a wait-and-see attitude instead, preferring to monitor the situation while making emergency plans. Explained Assoc Prof Pangarkar: a I think it probably relates to risk
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      Lock icon Safety measure 'makes good business sense'
      145 8 MANAGEMENT consultancy firm Newday Consulting said a serviced-office boom makes sense given the current environment where people are wary of the virus. Said managing director John Koh: "Companies may not want to take the risk of bad publicity or their operations being affected. Some
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      Lock icon S'pore divers turn teachers in Cambodia
      571 9 WHEN turtles get caught in Cambodian fishermen's nets, they are more likely to be released than killed for food. These fishermen believe that this act of kindness will bring them good luck. The fisherman carves his name on the turtle's shell as a mark
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      Lock icon Don't eat giant clams, protect them
      422 9 ITS easy to see why giant clams (right) would be easy to kill for food. Their fleshy mantle is often brightly coloured, making them easy to spot, and they don't go anywhere. They have been harvested to extinction in many places because scallops, a
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      Lock icon She gave him a Rolex and a handphone He took it all, dumped her... and kept the watch
      571 10  -  Office romances gone sour are among the 173 workplace and contractual disputes handled by volunteer mediators at Community Mediation Centres By, Anne Seah YOU could call this an office romance that didn't
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      Lock icon GOOD SUCCESS RATE
      152 11 A SETTLEMENT rate of 75 per cent for more than 1,000 disputes handled that*s the success rate of 152 volunteer mediators. Since 1998, grassroots leaders, community leaders, lawyers and other professionals have assisted people in reaching mutually acceptable solutions. All of them undergo mediation training attend roundtable
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      Lock icon Boy drowns in condo pool
      203 12 A VISIT to a friend's home to work on a school project ended in tragedy on Monday. Primary 5 student Muhammad Asyraf Abdul Rahman, and two classmates had gone to the Azalea Park Condominium home of a classmate, as they were working on a school
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      81 8 STUDY IN SWITZERLAND Bachelors Masters Degree in Hotel or Tourism Management: Obtain a worW-class Swiss Higher Diploma ft a British Degree in 3 years 1 year MBA or Msc in Tourism I Hotel Mgt Fill] residential course in Luzern and paid training in Switzerland USA Credit exemptions for local Diploma
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      113 9 I think the skit was very effective because we used actions and not words. Unlike in Singapore where we don't litter because of fines, in their culture it's very common. MrDias Tan, 26, a member of the Police Coast Guard, who played the turtle in the skit Wm Buy a
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    255 15 WORLD A DOCTOR has advised him against it. And worried citizens have appealed to him to reconsider. But Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is pushing ahead with plans to fly in an Fl6 jetfighter (like the one pictured at right) today, the
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  • WORLD
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      324 18 British scientists identity protein in parasite This will help in search for new drugs AFP. British scientists claimed yesterday to have made a significant breakthrough in finding a permanent treatment for malaria. The disease is caused by a parasite carried by the anopheles mosquito.
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      Lock icon No, no, they're not dead at all
      397 19 AP. IT was dramatic news. The CNN website ran obituaries of several leading world personalities including Pope John Paul 11, the former South African president, Mr Mandela, US vice-president Dick Cheney and arch political rivals, Fidel Castro and Ronald Reagan. Obituaries of the
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      295 20 Country's proposal to lift Iraq sanctions brings US closer to goal Wire services. FRANCE was in the forefront of opposition to the US-led war against Iraq. Yet, the country's proposal yesterday is an important step towards the US goal of ending trade embargoes that have crippled Iraq's economy.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Half-Life sequel to come to life soon
      294 23 Hot horror computer game which spawned Counter-Strike due for release this year IT gave birth to Counter-Strike, currently the Internet's most popular multi-player game. And now, the sequel to computer game Half-Life which has been a firm favourite among gamers since it first
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      Lock icon Dog hit by car, shot, put in freezer —and lives
      170 23 SHE should have been dead. After all, the female dog had been hit by a car and shot in the head. So, animal control staff members put what they thought was a carcass in a freezer at the California dog
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Suspects believed to have demanded drugs before
      416 24 I KL DOC HACKED TO DEATH MALAYSIAN police have arrested three men who allegedly murdered a doctor at a polyclinic in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday. Brickfields police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Noor Kandar said the three were picked up in separate locations,
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      Lock icon Doctors targeted
      126 24 Bernama. IN October last year, a senior private practitioner was brutally murdered in his clinic in broad daylight in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. He was the third doctor to have been murdered in the same town. In 2001, a total of 19 clinics were robbed. In 2002 from January
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Donate to Courage Fund
      120 26 HERE'S how: A crossed cheque made out to "The Courage Fund" can be sent to The Courage Fund, c/o National Healthcare Group, 6 Commonwealth Lane, Level 6, GMTI Building, Singapore *****7 Or call 1900-112-8811 before Apr 30. Sing Tel Mobile customers can also use the SEND
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      Lock icon Healthcare stocks sizzle
      219 26 Healthcare stocks were on a hot run at the Singapore stock market yesterday. Punters leapt on news that mainboard-listed Eu Yan Sang, a traditional Chinese medicine company, was planning to mass produce an immunity-boosting concoction for Hong Kong's healthcare workers. Its shares shot up to fifth spot
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      Lock icon Many languages going under
      263 26 OH THE RACK Extract from The Sydney Morning Herald: A leading Australian researcher says linguists are working hard to prevent "bulldozer languages" displacing the overwhelming majority of more vulnerable languages. Kate Burridge, the newly appointed professor of linguistics at Monash University, said that at the current
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      52 26 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7.55/-0.29 Creative Technology 6.4/-0.04 Flextronics 9.31/+0.17 Chartered Semiconductor 3.85/-0.03 Stats 7.13/+0.03 Yesterday's action Percentage change Close Dow Up 1.87% (156.09 pts) 8,484.99 Nasdaq Up 1.89% (26.99 pts} 1,451.36 S+P 500 Up 2.17% (19.36 pts) 911.37 STI Up 0.24% (3.08
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      Lock icon Demand for bungalows
      73 26 THERE may be a drop in overall property deals, but people are still buying good class bungalows. According to Knight Frank, there were 13 such transactions in the first three months of the year two more than in the last quarter of 2002. However, only an estimated
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      Lock icon Pay less monthly Giro tax
      73 26 TAXPAYERS' monthly deductions will be based on 80 per cent of the tax for the previous year, said the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore yesterday. Those paying their tax in instalments via Giro will have it deducted from next month on a provisional basis before
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      Lock icon SIA lawsuits deferred
      73 26 LAWSUITS against Singapore Airlines over the crash of SQ 006 in Taiwan have been deferred so it could pursue its bid to have Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration appear as a third party in the cases. SIA applied in January to have this done. It was granted the
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      Lock icon Orchard rethink for Isetan?
      72 26 ISETAN may consider consolidating its Orchard Road outlets into one. The Japanese department store currently owns a five-level, 100,000 sq ft space in Wisma Atria, and rents a space almost double the size in nearby Shaw House. For years, minority shareholders have been calling for the
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      Lock icon Treasures from Padang dig
      76 26 AN archaeological excavation at the Padang has uncovered artefacts that support the theory that Singapore was a trade hub as early as the 14th century. Porcelain shards from the Yuan (AD 1260-1368) dynasty were among the many finds from the dig near the Singapore Cricket Club.
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      Lock icon AIA acts on critical year issue
      69 26 ALA has set up an in-house advisory panel that will hold its first one-on-one meetings with policyholders concerned about the "critical-year" option on Friday. The panel of financial services consultants will help each policyholder understand the features of their policies, and how the option
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      Lock icon Money in a Dog Eat Dog world
      1011 28  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck TO most of us, $10,000 is a lot of money. But would you get all wet and bruised and face possible humiliation from strangers and friends for that amount? When Media Works offered a $10,000 prize in every one
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      127 29 DIAMONDS are a girl's best friend, so trust singer-actress Jennifer Lopez (right) to have a toilet seat worthy of her pampered posterior. Not only is fiance Ben Affleck dutifully learning Spanish to please his bride-to-be, he has bought her a jewel-studded loo lid which
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      588 43 NST THE consistent Enemy Fire geared for his second success in Saturday's Class 1 Div 2 event over 1,400 m with a sizzling hit-out in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by jockey V Sivan, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Strategic sprinted smartly over the final
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      86 43 SERIOUSLY-INJURED jockey B Ravichandran has regained consciousness after being in a coma for 48 hours since his racefall at Ipoh last Saturday. The 32-year-old Ipoh-based rider, who is reported to be able to move his arms, is scheduled to undergo an operation to his spine tomorrow. Ravichandran
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        122 43 SOME people may have jumped the gun about Kiwi trainer Stephen Gray being no great fan of sand racing. Gray had been without a winner since Ocean Princess shed her maiden status on turf on Mar 7. Interestingly, his losing streak was recorded over the recently-concluded
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      482 44 WORKOUTS by horses handicapped at Kranji on Friday: JUMBO JET TROPHY (Group 3) 1,800 m: Count De Lago canter/35.5, edging out Last Recove (J Geroudis) by a neck. The latter is handicapped in the Open Benchmark 81 race over
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        245 45 MANCHESTER UTD v REAL MADRID PA Sport. MOST pundits believe Manchester United face mission impossible tomorrow. Only once in the history of the competition has a team come back from two goals down in the knock-out phase. That was in 1999 when
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      712 46  -  MAN UTDv REAL MADRID EXCLUSIVE STAR By FERNANDO MERRO REAL MADRID THE second leg in Manchester will be very difficult. It is true that we produced a good result, but we cannot afford to be too confident that it will be enough to
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      733 48 I Q-Finals 2nd Leg MAN REAL MADRID 1st Leg: 1 3 Beating Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid convincingly is the task before Manchester United tomorrow morning. Can the English Premier League club achieve that to qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League? Tanjong Pagar Prime League
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      740 49  -  By Frank Malley PA Sport. IF the drama of Manchester United's European Cup triumph in 1999 told the football world anything, it was that you write them off at your peril. Not until the last lungful of air has been spent, the final ball kicked and the
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      1125 51 Roy Keane (right) said to me before he went out against Arsenal 'if I get a knock here I'll never last' but he was tackling all night. That's his character and we'll need that on Wednesday. —Sir Alex Ferguson (left) MAN UNITED will have to produce
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      524 52 Q-Finals 2nd leg MAN REAL MADRID 1st Leg: 1-3 RESHUFFLE THE TEAM MUCH of the post-mortem of the Bemabeu defeat focused on David Beckham's rather lacklustre performance. But more significant for Manchester United was the astonishing lack of presence of Roy Keane
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      81 52 For the quarter-final and semi-final stages...if both teams score the same number of goals, the team which score more Coals away qualify. If not. extreme of two periods of 15 minutes are played after the second leg. If during extratime.
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      417 52 SHOWDOWN PUVMINCMROUND Sir Mac His playing career was a great rfi ppni ft tin ftnfr to particularly when he was blamed for Rangers losing a Cup final and was shipped out to Falkirk after only two years at the Glasgow giants. After seven
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        466 53 (Q FINALS. 2nd LEG) VALENCIA 2 w»,« INTER MILAN 1, SHOWDOWN Reuters. IF a goalkeeper can single-handedly save a top-class European match, here's a classic example. Inter-Milan No 1 Francesco Toldo gave a virtuoso performance to help book their place in the last four
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        196 53 5th nlMto: CMMtir Inter striker Heman Crespo passes a quick bail through and Valencia defender Roberto Ayaia fumbles it, letting Christian Vieri shoot at goal. Goalkeeper Santiago Canizares saves but Vieri makes no mistake with the rebound. •>! and Marco Materazzi inside out and squares to Pablo Aimar,
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        780 54 VALENCIA 2 INTER-MILAN 1 Aggregate: 2-2 Inter win on away-goals rule IT was a pulsating game of 10 men against one. Just how Inter-Milan goalkeeper Francesco Toldo who made his mark with Italy in Euro 2000 repelled shot after shot from Valencia's massive artillery onslaught this morning...only
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        77 55 BARCELONA 1 ,.v, JUVENTUS 2 ii'uniSiiii'ni.i.'i,/. SHOWDOWN In one of the greatest games in their history, Juventus nicknamed The Old Lady—beat Barcelona despite being down to 10 men for much of the game. Here's how it went... 5M mkuitK Juventus' Edgar Davids wins the ball
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        626 56 BARCELONA 1 JUVENTUS 2 Juventus win 3-2 on aggregate after extra-time IF there's any lesson one can learn from Juventus' phenomenal victory over Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-final this morning, it is discipline. By all reckoning, Barcelona had everything in their favour. Juventus travelled to
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        255 56 2nd minute: Marc Overmars gets in a cross from the right. Javier Saviola is unmarked in the box, but his header is too high 13th: Luis Enrique plays a ball into the box for Saviola, who turns left with one touch to shoot from a narrow angle. Comfortably
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        43 56 Real Madrid or Man United I/O Juventus First leg: Tuesday, May 6 Second leg: Wed, May 14 Ajax Amsterdam or AS iBJH'H AC Milan I/O Inter-Milan First leg:Wed,May7 Second leg: Tuesday, May 13 Final: Wednesday, May 28—Old Trafford, Manchester
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        267 56 Reuters. BARCELONA coach Radomir Antic was at a loss to explain his side's Champions League defeat to Juventus after his side created chance after chance only to miss out on a place in the semi-finals. The truth is that the dream is over in a terrible, unfair
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        266 57 (Q I INALS. 2ndLf G) Reuters. INTER-MILAN and Juventus gave Italian soccer its pride back yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) when they became the first Serie A teams to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League since 1999. They scored a stunning double success with Juventus,
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        550 57 BARCELONA 1 (Xavi 66) JUVENTUS 2 (Pavel Nedved 53, Zalayeta 114) M Juventus win 3-2 on aggregate after extra-time Reuters. SUBSTITUTE striker Marcelo Zalayeta struck six minutes before the end of extra-time to earn 10-man Juventus a 2-1 win over Barcelona this morning. That strike sent
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        88 57 Wire Services. ITALIAN goalkeepers came to the fore this morning. Their virtuoso performances saw their sides advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Inter-Milan 'keeper Francesco Toldo was truly outstanding. He almost single-handedly kept out Valencia with a string of excellent saves. In the other
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        842 58 Two-goal hero Viduka continues with rescue act LEEDS 2 (Mark Viduka 4th min, 49) FULHAM 0 Crowd: 37,220 Reuters. THE sigh of relief which swept round at Elland Road at the final whistle was so obvious to see early this morning. Free-scoring Mark Viduka's latest two-goal salvo
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        200 58 tennis US Clay Court Championship*, round: 1 Andre Agassi (US) bt Zeljko Krajan (Cro) 6-2,6-0; 5 Vince Spadea (US) bt Jack Brasington (US) 6-3,6-3; Mardy Fish (US) bt Sergio Roitman (Arg) 6-3,6-3; Ricardo Mello (Bra) bt Andre Sa (Bra) 7-6 (7/2), 60. SNOOKER tm Ml 1,1 fL
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      422 59  -  3 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Q-FINALS, 2nd LEG) f MANCHESTER UNITED V REAL MADRID EXCLUSIVE '7 I I'll" 'J I CHAMPIONS LEAGUE By RYAN GIGGS MANCHESTER UNITED I DON'T think there's much doubt that it would rank as one of our greatest ever results if we are able to
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