The New Paper, 31 December 2003

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    31 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2003 Press Holdings I Website: newpaperasiaI.com.sg I Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 J 60 CENTS 8 the new paper
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      44 1 WE'RE SINGAPORE'S NO.l TABLOID I WEDNESDAY. the DECEMBER 31. 2003 m inew i S w m aMITA MU" i.rj: f; Cantopop star did not want usual funeral clothes CAUGHT AT WOODLANDS CHECKPOINT: 409 I SMUGGLERS Fake documents stuffed in red packets hidden in shoes
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  • NEWS
    • Goodbye ANITA
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        Lock icon Costume, not funeral clothes for her
        710 2  -  By Low Ching Ling lotocl@tnp.sph. com.sg THE man responsible for all the designs you see on this page will be planning one last costume. Anita Mui's final dress. Before her death, Anita had said she did not want to be wearing normal funeral clothes.
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        Lock icon Her mum told her it was time to go
        870 3  -  By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph.com.sg IT must have been the most gut-wrenching decision that a mother would ever have to make to tell her dying child that it was time to let go. This was what Anita Mui's mum reportedly did as
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      Lock icon S’pore link in ‘phoney sale’?
      678 4  -  Local firm named in massive fraud probe of Parmalat TWO KEY QUESTIONS Did Foo Kon Tan audit the sale of powdered milk to Cuba? Did it certify Camfield's financial statements as true and correct? THE TANGLED WEB Italian prosecutors believe these sales never took place.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Was Bonlat a dumping ground?
      191 4 PARMALAT'S auditor through the 1990s was the British accounting firm, Grant Thornton, reported AWSJ. New auditing rules in the US, Europe and Singapore require large companies to rotate auditors every five years. In 1999, when Parmalat was required to change auditors, it brought in Deloitte
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      175 5 <* J (arbbertj present >** rrrtY ON, SINGAPORE! H ;r. d P ™r @doujntduun erst When Jason Spins! SPH MedinWotks Artiste Bryan Wong DJ Jason Chow SPH Medi.iWorks Artiste A s<S .3 >1.-j y < W• r *5K A "r- -//> v Featuring ANITA SARAWAK. WENDI KOH, CCCHUSH, SHAGGIES, TYPHOON
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Final chapter to come
      760 6  -  Judge convicts 'wolf in sheep's clothing', then postpones sentencing I SHANKAR flIYAR TRIAL By Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com. sg THE judge did not mince his words, likening the accused to a hunting wolf in sheep's clothing. Neither did he keep his words short. District Judge Victor Yeo's
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      Lock icon The case
      147 7 THE former Channel NewsAsia presenter met his accuser at a party thrown by his colleague, Ms Ynja Bjorosson, on Nov 2 last year. The woman, who cannot be named, was tipsy when she left with Shankar in the early hours of the morning. She said she woke up
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      Lock icon Three cases spotted
      580 8  -  RED PACKET SMUGGLERS By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph.com.sg THEY are auspicious such happy, harmless things. So, who would suspect the red packets would contain fake employment passes and Singapore identity cards? Well, officers of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) did. Three men, who were arrested separately in
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      Lock icon Tighter checks at checkpoints
      167 8 THE number of vehicles used for smuggling has dropped, thanks to stepped-up checks at land checkpoints, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said. Only 14 vehicles were seized this year, compared with 43 last year. In 2001, the figure was 56. The steady drop can be attributed
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      201 7 Congratulations to MsNmyT (NIUC No. >m<WfQlr ISilOTOOOilGASH. Honey Naze Challenge Cap[taLand ISCOVER fi A' Singapore Science Centre fill Catch the sporting action before season ends on 31 Jan 04! i ifii > Sports Science Exhibition I r r Ur'i'.inr; .v Mns' Pi.t voii Luteal y attends mf Chemistry riM t.
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Will it be clear skies ahead?
      660 10  -  PROPERTY ROUND-UP 2003 By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg THE many changes in the property market in 2003 can be summed up in just one line buy only what you can afford. That seems to be the underlying mantra of the year. Some of the policy
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      Lock icon POOR PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR
      71 10 THE performance of the property market has been bearish this year. HDB resale transactions: There were only about 33,000 of these this year, the lowest after the 66,000 in 1998. Last year there were 38,343 transactions. New private properties: About 5,000 sold this year compared with
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      Lock icon 2003 at a glance
      551 10 HERE is a summary of some key changes that affected the property market in 2003: January 2003 Mortgage loans from banks With effect from Jan 1, flat buyers who are not eligible for HDB's concessionary interest loans have to take mortgage loan from banks or financial
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      Lock icon There’s cash in trash
      418 11  -  S'pore firm moves into $170 m Indian medical waste business By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph. com. sg NOT satisfied with cleaning up the rubbish here, homegrown company SembCorp Environmental Management (SembEnviro) is going to India. And there, they'll be picking up not just any old trash,
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      Lock icon Did you win our countdown contest?
      91 12 IN our Boxing Day issue contest, we asked readers to tell us how much the Downtown East New Year's Eve package cost. The answer: $388. Out of the 4,029 entries received, 3,960 answered correctly. Five correct entries were picked ta win a three-day, two-night
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    Lock icon Minister wants probe into Air Asia fares
    361 13 MALAYSIA Bernama. CULTURE, Arts and Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir suggested yesterday that the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs should look into AirAsia's ads for low airfares. He believed that there was some misrepresentation in them to the public. He
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon ‘Disabled’ former US beauty queen charged with fraud
      406 14 AP. THE mother of four wanted Social Security disability benefits. She claimed a car accident had made her unable to work. For 18 months, Denise Marie Henderson pestered the authorities for it. It had been denied twice. But one month before she
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      Lock icon Countdown Party FREE 2004 ENTRY @ Europa!!
      108 14  - Countdown Party FREE 2004 ENTRY Europa!! By Europa www. europa. com.sg This special treat is in celebration of Europa's 61st Anniversary in the coming 2004. Enjoy free entry before 10 pm at lnduz3, Europa Beach Bar and Le Chateau. We're open till 4am for the countdown. Hit our party zones
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      Lock icon 35 die in fireworks factory explosion in China
      162 15 THE powerful blast flattened the workshops of a fireworks factory and took off the roof of a four-storey building it was located in (left). And at least 35 people died and 14 others were injured (like the two women in the inset
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      Lock icon $3,800 down payment to kill his alleged rape victim
      495 15 FIRST he was accused of rape. Now, a 19-year-old in Sydney is being charged with hiring a hitman to kill his teenage accuser. Khater Bou-Anton is in a Correctional Centre after being charged with the aggravated sexual assault of a 16-year-old
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Taiwanese prof makes president the butt of jokes
      480 17 Now, he is in hot water for allegedly saying: Mr Chen's brain needs to be cured by radiation therapy He is so incompetent that his subordinates all become crazy HE must have thought it was funny then, but Professor Pan Jung-kuang is
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      Lock icon They call him 'The Slave Master’ and he’s smiling
      420 18 ITS that time of the year in Thailand: Time to poke fiin at the government. And the man at the helm is not protesting. Journalists have branded the Government House as Shin IV and as a branch of Thai Prime Minister
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    Lock icon Penang nurse charged with reckless driving
    441 19 North-South Highway accident on X'mas eve left five dead MALAYSIA SHE lost her husband and a son. And now, she could lose much more. Staff nurse Angeline Jayarane Arunasalam, whose husband and son were killed in an accident on the North-South Highway on Christmas
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon ‘Let me out’
      337 20 New York man saved by neighbours two days after he's trapped under heap of books HIS love affair with books nearly cost him his life. Book-lover Patrice Moore filled his tiny apartment in New York with so many books that they collapsed on him, trapping him for
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      Lock icon ‘Dead’ woman turns up alive in hospital
      444 21 MISTAKEN IDENTITY OF BLAZE SURVIVOR FOR nearly a week, the family of Ms Ann Goyette thought she was the lucky one to have survived a Dec 22 house fire in which one woman was killed. That's what her relatives had been told by
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      Lock icon Joyride teens killed while fleeing police
      364 21 AP. YOU see it on police videos on TV: A car trying to outrun the highway patrol runs off the road. In a small town in North Carolina, however, the fleeing car crashes, killing all seven teenagers inside. The driver was identified as a
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Sars or not?
      325 22 Guangdong official confirms it but WHO, China stay silent Wire services. ONE side says he has it. But other parties are still waiting for their own tests to be confirmed. That's the dilemma the Chinese government now faces with the possibility of Sars rearing its ugly head
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      Lock icon Lots of good cheer for Singapore's stock market
      279 22 in FOCUS ITS been a bumper year for Singapore's stock market. The total market value surged by 46 per cent from Jan 1 to $294.8 billion, up from $202.3 billion. Helping to push this value up has been a flurry of new
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      51 22 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 8.57/+0.27 Creative Technology 10.12/+0.15 Flextronics 14.66/-0.04 Chartered Semiconductor 9.85/-0.01 Stats 12.25/-0.05 Yesterday's Percentage ri action change Dow Down 0.24% (24.96 pts) 10,425.04 Nasdaq Up 0.17% (3.40 pts) 2,009.88 S+P 500 Up 0.01% (0.16 pts) 1,109.64 ST1 Uplift (22.86 pts)
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      Lock icon Ex-FAS man guilty
      82 22 FORMER national football team manager, grassroots leader and senior lawyer Tay Soo Wan pleaded guilty to misappropriating over $118,000 of his clients' money. A client had entrusted $46,015 to him in June last year, but Tay, 50, used the money to pay $43,379 that he had misappropriated
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      Lock icon Electricity price up
      81 22 HOMES and small businesses will have to pay more for electricity from tomorrow as SP Services' tariffs will go up by 1.1 per cent on average. And on top of that, consumers will still have to pay the new goods and services tax rate of 5 per
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      Lock icon Pay cuts give edge
      75 22 TWO years of pay cuts and salary freezes have resulted not only in savings for local manufacturers but have also better equipped them to face the competition. Total annual pay of production workers here rose by just 1 per cent to US$17,463 ($29,733), compared to 20
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      Lock icon 2 more JCs offer course
      81 22 TWO more junior colleges will offer integrated programmes, bringing the number of JCs which do this to five. Victoria Junior College (VJC) and Temasek Junior College (TJC) are both offering a four-year course of study from 2005. Students will enter in Secondary 3, skip the
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      Lock icon 'Missing' kids found
      76 22 THEY were "missing" when the primary school registration exercise for 2004 ended in September. But five of these seven children have since been found. The Singapore Children's Society has helped to place one child in school while another will be registered on Monday. It is trying to
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      Lock icon Digital cable TV delay
      74 22 IF you've been waiting for digital cable TV, you'll have to wait a bit longer. Phone company and cable TV provider Star Hub said it will delay introducing its digital cable television services until next year to allow more time for programming enhancement. It said that
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • TECH
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      Lock icon These contain computers, really
      320 23  -  By Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg Essentially, computers have remained the same boring boxes for the past few decades. Almost always painted in beige or black, the sheer blandness of each bulky metal case have meant that users always try to find ways to keep them out of
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      Lock icon Mindless fun
      529 24  -  But gadget could be musical playground for kids, simplify recording for musicians DAIJN CHIA doM*ichki@jpfußnug IN the Creative Prodikeys DM keyboard, I found an invention which could change my mind about combining technology and music. Classically trained in music, I've always been inclined towards traditional musical instruments no
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      Lock icon How I was booted out of Man U!
      485 25  -  By Oo Gin Lee tnp@sph.com.sg SO you think you've got what it takes to be Alex Ferguson? So did I. But after "playing" a quarter of a season as Manchester United manager, I have come to terms with reality I don't have
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      Lock icon Film photography is obsolete?
      393 29 Wire services. IF everybody is switching to digital cameras, is there still hope for good old film photography? Many photo enthusiasts are asking the same question, especially after Eastman Kodak said two months ago it would invest more heavily in developing digital technology, an announcement that
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      Lock icon Virtual money lost, but verdict won
      306 30 Gamer sues over stolen online booty IT may be just a game in the virtual world but an aggrieved gamer in China is serious enough to fight his cause in a court in the real world. He was upset when his gaming account was
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      1018 34  -  t i o jc: co And did we tell you about Aishwarya Rai and Naomi Campbell? The New Paper opens our2oo3scrapbook of some famous faces who came, saw and conquered By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph. com.sg THANK goodness for beautiful people. The
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      449 35 Some Taiwanese fans save their adulation for our homegrown talents. WENDY TEO meets them in Taipei. Michelle Liang has watched each of Fann Wong's drama serials almost 20 times. That's nothing new for a fan, you say? But how about freezing
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      379 35 THERE'S one perk to being a foreign fan of Christopher Lee. Not only do you get personal SMSes from him, but also special calls from the man himself, as a show of concern. Like during the Sars epidemic, when he messaged his Taiwanese
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      244 36 WHO were the biggest news-makers in Hindi cinema this year? Leading the Times of India list is, who else, but Bollywood's Big B Amitabh Bachchan (right), all of 61 years and still going strong in the industry. It's been a year of trying new things
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      88 37 RAVEENA Tandon (right) is tying the knot. The actress, who is engaged to film distributor Anil Thadani, is reportedly planning a February wedding in Udaipur. She has chosen Delhi-based Manav Gangawani to design her bridal wear. Manav has told the Indian media that Raveena will be
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      112 37 HRITHIK Roshan (right) has a lot to be happy about as 2003 is on its last leg. In Mumbai tabloid, Mid-Day's assessment of the top 10 grossing films in Mumbai, his two films, Koi... Mil Gaya and Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, were No
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      777 46 NST. WEDNESDAY RUNNER drew attention to his chances in the RM60,000 ($27,000) Kinta Valley Special Stakes for Class 3 sprinters over 1,200m on Sunday with a dazzling gallop yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Key Business went flawlessly over 600m
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      962 46 FIRST STRIKE: First run in 1887, the inaugural edition was won by First Prince; George Towton is the only person to own, train and ride a BMW Perth Cup winner—with Wandering Willie in 1892. Towton also owned and
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      137 47 RECAST, the only newcomer entered for the first meeting of the 2004 season at Kranji on Friday night, is a useful sort. From three starts In Australia, the three-year-old chestnut ridgeling by Thunder Gulch out of Abonnement was successful on two occasions. After an unplaced debut
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      373 47 WORKOUTS by horses handicapped on Friday (racing on turf unless indicated): CLASS 1 1,200m: Gunong Mas (0 Chavez) canter/38.2, fluently. Golden Rule (C Carmody) and Air Chief (M Kellady) canter/37.6. Skip (J Lloyd, Open Benchmark 90 1,400m) canter/37.5, edged out Spielberg (J Taylor). Ayotee
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      139 47 RESULTS of three barrier trials conducted over 1,000m on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday morning. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Merlin Way (KB Soo) 2 Real Warrior (J Geroudis) 3 Swift Victory (F Minarik) 4 Surprise Attack (D Azis) 5 Always Remember (C Carmody) 6 Yattaze
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        131 47 THE visiting European contingent of Filip Minarik, Oscar Urbina and Miguel Blancpain must be wishing that the New Year ushers in a welcome change of luck for them. With a collective total of 81 rides behind them, the trio have yet to break into the
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        128 47 RACE-GOERS will need to be at their peak form this week. Following last week's 30-race diet, comprising five in Ipoh, nine at Kranji and 17 at Penang over the weekend, they will be spoilt for greater choice this week. Over four straight days, a total
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        118 47 T g OWNER Beh Chin Pheng must be hoping he bought something out of the box. The Majestic Stable top man just shelled out a record RM525.000 ($235,325) for a Metal Storm colt at the 2003 Malaysian National Premier Sale conducted by Magic Millions in Penang on
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      1036 48  -  By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg COMPARED to the past four years, the past 12 months at Kranji have been anything but uneventful, with the biggest news breaking in the last quarter of the year. Early on, there were worrying
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      147 49 MARE-VELLOUS ACHIEVEMENT: Zimbabwean jockey Mark du Plessis steering the Malcolm Thwaites-trained mare Zirna (above) to victory in the Raffles International Cup last October. The combination then stepped out last month to capture the Singapore Gold Cup, much to the delight of co-owner Russell Warwick (right, with
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    416 50 ATHLETICS SPORTS AP. UNITED States sprint champion Kelli White is in hot water again. She and six other American athletes have flunked drug tests conducted earlier this year in the US. White had already been caught for modafinil abuse at the World Championships in
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      1291 52 As soon as you think you have turned a corner, you end up hitting something coming around that corner. Former Leeds boss Teny Venables not taking anything for granted after his side won three out of four league games last year. He was right
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      360 53 EXCLUSIVE STAR -V&* bPSt ritfht back flfllit test lOvufß. players in Ufl-badc Roberto Carlos There are not too many teams in the world that can boast that they have a match winner in the ieft-back position. He's a fantastic player, with amazing skills. He's a
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      690 54  -  COMMENT/ Suresh Nair ARSENAL goalkeeper Jens Lehmann can count himself very lucky not to have got a red card for deliberately throwing the ball at an opponent. Seconds after the final whistle at St Mary's Stadium following Tuesday's hot-tempered 1-0 away win over Southampton the German goalkeeper's ball-throwing
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      99 54 ARSENAL signed Lehmann from Borussia Dortmund in July 2003 for about£2.5million ($7.4 million) as David Seaman's successor. Known to be a temperamental goalkeeper, he began his career with Schalke, with whom he lifted the Uefa Cup, before going on to play a big part in Dortmund's Champions League challenges.
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        684 55  -  I Byl RYAN GIGGS MANCHESTER UNITED IT'S been a great Christmas for us all at Manchester United. Beating Everton at Old Trafford on Boxing Day and then travelling to Middlesbrough and taking three points at the Riverside last
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        640 56 LEEDS v ARSENAL (Sunday) DENNIS BERGKAMP ARSENAL HAPPY New Year! If you ask any player what he wants for Christmas he will say six Premiership points. So at Arsenal we are a very happy squad of players after two wins over Wolves on Boxing
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        235 56 (3rd ROUND) WATFORD CHELSEA (SATURDAY PA Sport. CLAUDIO Ranieri's (left) multi-million pound Chelsea squad have been warned to expect a "bog" of a pitch when they take on Watford at Vicarage Road in the FA Cup third-round on Saturday. Watford boss Ray Lewington
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        590 57 YEOVIL v LIVERPOOL (3rd ROUND) RUSH: PA Sport. LAN Rush has warned Liverpool's stars if they are not "up for it" at minnows Yeovil on Sunday, they will be dumped out of the FA Cup. Liverpool's record goalscorer who won the FA Cup
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        219 57 PA Sport. GERARD Houllier has ruled out Steven Gerrard for the clash against Yeovil. But the Liverpool boss has not given up hope of his skipper being fit to play in the Premiership crunch at Chelsea on Jan 7. A scan on Gerrard's thigh-muscle injury acquired last
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        121 57 AFP. LIVERPOOL striker Michael Owen (above) could feature against Yeovil. The player, who has played just four games since October, was forced off with a thigh strain at Manchester City last weekend. And doubts had been expressed about his fitness for Sunday's cup tie and next Wednesday's
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        71 57 WIMBLEDON 0 WEST BROM 0 Reuters. WEST Bromwich missed a golden chance to close the gap on English First Division leaders Norwich last night. They drew 00 at bottom club Wimbledon. Second-placed West Bromwich have 47 points, five behind Norwich, after 26 games. "We were a bit apprehensive
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        465 57 The 1959 game was not short of controversy with then Liverpool boss Phil Taylor axing the legendary Billy Uddell—the first FA Cup game the Scot had missed since the war, an amazing 40-game record. Uddell, in a recently published book on his life "Bill)
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      654 58 BLAST I PA Sport. Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd has fired off a broadside at Sir Bobby Robson and his under-achieving millionaire players after a disastrous Christmas. Shepherd, who has handed Robson in excess of £68million ($201m) to conduct rebuilding work during his four years at St James'
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      325 58 FA CUP: SOUTHAMPTON v NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE captain Alan Shearer admits the FA Cup tie at his former club Southampton is not the ideal match to try and end the club's poor run of form. The 33-year-old Shearer was barely 18 months old the
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      468 59 BLAST II Wire Services. LIKE a true gentleman, Marcel Desailly has never indulged in trash talking. The veteran France defender has always preferred to answer his critics with his game, not his mouth. But now, Desailly is hitting back. Why? Because he's had enough. The Chelsea defender,
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      271 59 THIERRY Henry has finally hit the jackpot. The Frenchman who lucked out with the World and European Football Player of the Year awards earlier this month, finally took home the honours after prestigious French sports magazine France Football voted the Gunner, French Player of the
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