The New Paper, 1 January 2004

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  • NEWS
    • 678 2  -  YEOH WEE TECK Reporting from Hong Kong SHE was ill. Yet she gave her all during her eight concerts in Hong Kong last November. Only they didn't know those would be Anita Mui's last concerts. So said Anthony Lun, music director of all her
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    • 166 2 ANTHONY Lun said it hurt to be planning his friend's funeral. He is one of the 20 committee members t-flpked with malring thft final arrangements for Anita Mui's funeral. Others members include Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Kar Fai and Andy Lau. Said Anthony: "WhMMVtr we meet to
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    • 132 3 W w The New Paper asked some of the great and good of Singapore to share with our readers their hopes for what the New Year might bring them. They had plenty to hope for, on these and some of the following
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    • 276 3 Time BOYS "I can be back in my foxhole. It wasn't much to look at y but it was home." Mr Saddam Hussein, (former) president of Iraq Mr Saddam *as unavailable for comme'it but we figured he would W have said -joniething liKe this
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    • 10 2 The New Paper wishes all readers a Happy New Year.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 507 4  -  Readers eager to get their hands on McDonald's collectibles By, Jeremy Au Yong tnp@sph.com.sg QUEUES can bring out the worst in people. And sometimes the best as well. Take the queue in the picture above. This time they were giving away monkey soft toys
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    • 126 4 IF you didn't manage to get your hands on our limited edition The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King graphics poster earlier this week, we've got 10 more to give away! What's more, it comes with a LOTR goodie bag comprising collectibles like
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    • 614 5  -  By Angeline Song asong@sph. com.sg FANCY some braised crocodile meat with Chinese mushrooms for your Chinese New Year reunion dinner? Or how about buying crocodile bak kwa at a discount from its market price and helping needy school children at the same
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    • 142 5 FROM today, you can place orders for crocodile meat, crocodile bak kwa, toman fish (sang yu) and prawns. Call 6325-7661 to order. You must pay by cash at the AVA's office in the MND Building. You can collect your purchases on Jan 13 at the void
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    • 615 6  -  By Cynthia Loh cynlohQsph.com.sg THE new school term starts tomorrow. The question is: Would you go back to school for just one day before another two-day break? Some parents think not. The Straits Times reported two weeks ago that some parents will be
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    • 299 6 IN the UK, parents are warned that they face fines of up to £100 ($300) if they take their children out of school during term time without permission. Education minister Ivan Lewis said removing a child for a holiday without consulting the head
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    • 105 7 EVEN if some students stay away on the first day, that won't affect schools. They will cany on as usual, school principals said. But the principals were quick to point out that absenteeism on the first day of school would be very rare. Mrs
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    • 757 8  -  By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph. com.sg NOT everyone went to a party to usher in the New Year last night. Many went to pray perhaps a sign of the times after the trepidations of recent years. At the Kallang Theatre, Taoists, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims,
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    • 220 9  -  Story pictures by Kua Chee Siong tnp@sph.com.sg LAM Zhixiu, 13, a student from Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), was among the 10,000 devotees at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery yesterday to take part in the three-step, one-bow ceremony. In the morning, he had competed in a
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    • 432 9  -  By. Alvin Chiang aickiangQspk.com.sg THE New Year arrived with a blast with countdown parties at Sentosa, Singapore Expo and Downtown East. It was time to celebrate. The revellers out in force. Like Mr Herman Gan. The 33-year-old senior sales engineer was
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    • 560 10  -  By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph. com. sg RETIREE Ng Wang Koo was having a chat at his neighbourhood provision store when he heard a big bang. He didn't know then it was the sound of a body falling. A foreign worker had lost
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    • 641 11  -  REPORT AND PICTURE By Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg PERHAPS it was what the ballroom legend would have wanted. Ballroom dance champion of the 50s, Mr Low Poh San, died of a heart attack at the age of 91 yesterday morning. And family members placed his
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    • 523 12  -  All we need is a little water, and no soil says British botanist By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com.sg NOW you can make your own drinking water. So why not grow your own food too? So says British botanist and TV personality David Bellamy. "Look at
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    • 157 12 SINGAPORE'S getting an appetite for edible gardens. Gardens green with greens, that is. Such as the garden at the Pertapis Centre for Women and Children at Kovan Road (above). Landscape architect Boey Yut Mei helped design and set up the fully edible garden last August.
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  • WORLD
    • 611 13 HE psychiatrist listened I carefully to his patient, who suddenly switched from talking about her depression to an astonishing confession. Ms Roberta Bibby, 60, said she was guilty of the murders of her seven children. Her revelation sparked a police investigation, reported The
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    • 251 13 THE case seems certain to be dropped unless there is a sudden and dramatic new development. A police source predicted prosecutors were likely to decide it was not worthwhile bringing an action in court, despite its seriousness. For they do not have
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    • 468 14 Butterfingers Bandit Naughty Girl Bandit Michael Jackson Bandit Prom Queen Bandit CocWedoodledoo Bandit Groundhog Bandit Kangaroo Robber ITS tough work catching thieves. It's even tougher tracking them when all you have to describe them is "white male robber" or "black male suspect". That's
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    • 263 15 AFP. YES, US policymakers are human after all. In an uncharacteristic move, US Secretary of State Colin Powell (above) admitted that foreign policy mistakes have been made during President Bush's first three years in office. While not saying what these errors were, the top
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    • 139 15 THE Pakistani boy wanted to meet a girl studying in the International Indian School Riyadh (Girls Section), Saudi Arabia. ,r So he tried to get in by dressing as a woman. The boy, along with a friend, tried to beat the country's
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    • 287 16 FBI warns that almanacs could be used by terrorists planning attacks AP. THE FBI is warning the police all over the US to be alert for people carrying almanacs. That's because the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used
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    • 484 17 NEW YEAR'S EVE BLAZE IN THE PHILIPPINES AP. THE man who started the blaze should have known better than to play with fire. He sold firecrackers in the old public market, where at least 14 people were burnt to death yesterday after a rocket
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    • 447 18 CHINA SNAPS UP GRANDSON MAO'S REVEALING BIOGRAPHY HE sat at the helm of the largest nation on earth, wrote history with his policies and led China through some of its most turbulent years. Yet, when he died Mr Mao Tse-tung (far right) had only
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 392 19 PM GOH'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE THE year may be over, but the memory of 2003 will linger in the minds of many Singaporeans. Terrorism, Sars and the war in Iraq shook our economy, choking off hopes of an early recovery. But in his traditional New Year
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    • 327 19 I OH THE RACK Edited extract from dtscoverynews.com: A mini ice age helped to make the world's most famous violins, say US researchers. They say that violins made by Stradivari and other Italian masters had a superior sound as they were made using
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    • 74 19 BIG retailers here will continue to absorb the goods and services tax hike that kicks off in the New Year. They are hoping this will keep consumers buying during the festive period. Among them are Best Denki, Sports Link, and furniture store Ikea. Supermarket chains like
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    • 77 19 THE Singapore Tourism Board's blacklist of errant retailers has proven to be so effective no new names have made it to their second list, which comes out today. This is good news for consumers as it means no retailer here has been the target of three or
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    • 76 19 IT was a sad end to the year for 58 JTC Corporation staff members. The staff from the survey department were laid off following a manpower review exercise. The statutory board said it would maintain a small survey department to carry out critical and complicated survey work
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    • 67 19 HOT on the heels of the Slim 10 saga, another slimming drug has been linked to deaths. Ephedra, a diet and body-building supplement, raises blood pressure and stresses the system, warned the US federal government. It announced Tuesday that it will ban the drug. The Food and
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    • 66 19 THE Straits Times Pocket Money Fund has exceeded its target of $3.3 million. The fund-raising campaign ended yesterday and managed a whopping $3.4 m, which will go to 11,000 needy students this year. The fund got its biggest boost with a personal contribution of $250,000 from Mr
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    • 67 19 THE National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) has a new head neurologist Lee Wei Ling, 48, who blew the whistle on its foreign director Simon Shorvon last year. He was sacked for breaching ethical boundaries. The President's Scholar and daughter of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, was the
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  • 345 20  -  Step back 4,000 years in time TECH By, Jeremy Au Yong jeremyau@sph. com.sg I THINK I am in love. She's smart, looks gorgeous and we spend many happy hours together every day. Too bad she is just a computer game. Star Wars: Knights Of
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  • 251 24 Single unit creates surround sound TECH ANY audiophile worth his salt will tell you that a few speakers are needed to create a "movie sound" in your living room. But this may no longer be true. A US company has unveiled a home theatre
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  • 314 26 TECH THIS season has not been a very jolly one for the major game companies in the US game sales there grew by just 8 per cent this quarter, down from 14 per cent last year. One reason for the slowdown, analysts told Bloomberg
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
    • 708 30 CONCERTS/PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES Yesterday, The New Paper gave you a recap on the celebrity glamazons who swept in and out of Singapore and made our lives that much more 4 exciting last year. 1 Today, we 1 stargaze into our 1 crystal ball and tell 1 you
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    • 200 30 INTO its third year, this awards show is arguably the most exciting event on our entertainment calendar. Where else in Singapore can you find so many top Western and Asian pop acts strutting down the same red carpet? Even though British songbird
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    • 180 30 WHO doesn't love celebrity weddings? Look at the obsession over the Pierre-Andrea affair last October. But it looks like two couples will have to slug it out for this year's wedding of the year honour unless Fann and Christopher surprise us. Damn Lim and Evalyn Tan (abova) Mar 27
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    • 967 31 DON'T hold your breath now, but Korean actor Bae Yong Jim of Winter Sonata fame might just pop by. Local movie distributor Festive Films is apparently trying to fly him in to promote his debut film, Untold Scandal, which is slated for a release
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    • 431 32 ERIAKBAR (eri@sph.com.sg) asks some celebs about their fashion and beauty resolutions for the new year, and checks with some experts on how to achieve these targets CYNTHIA LEE (left) SPH Media Works artiste aka Ah Girl "I'm a disaster when drawing my
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    • 242 33 PRIME-TIME TV SLEEPING Beauty may have woken up from a deep sleep to find a prince waiting for her. But The Awakening Story, the new Channel U drama, is no fairy-tale. In fact, when comatose patient Lin Haoxue (Lisa Wang) woke up from a 16-year sleep,
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    • 224 38 WORKOUTS by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Seventh Heaven canter/40.6, not taxed. Slow work: Um't Dynamite (T Ong), Power On, Governor George (K Sara), Allocated, Cyber Palace, Belt Man. RACE 2: Slow work: Winning Expert (M Blancpain), Premier Gold, Royal Premiere, First Commander, Tango,
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    • 187 38 RESULTS of three barrier trials conducted over IfOOOml f OOOm on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Sflent Samurai (M Kellady) 2 Urn's Harvest (T Ong) 3 Urn's Season (KB Soo). Official margins and time: Nk f v* (lmin 05.205 ec). I
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    • 669 38 TOMORROW'S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, C FIBRESAND TRACK) RACE CARD 6.30 MCE 1 0B48P2— 1400m (LC) 1 Yzerman *KKNg 8) 60 2 Urn's Dynamite KBSoo 1) 59.5 3 Fat Cat JGeroudis (10) 58.5 4 Mac Kay —FMinarik 9) 58 5 Power On JSaimee 4) 58 6 Fifth General KKLoh 2) 57
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    • 329 39  -  By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com.sg THERE is nothing better than to kick off with something new in the New Year. With this in mind, the Singapore Turf Club Racing Management (STCRM) will launch its third racing trust later this month. To be launched on
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    • 312 39 NST. UNDERSTOOD, who failed to finish in the money in three outings, showed tremendous improvement in his winding-up gallop yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the three-year-old Canadian-bred gelding by Easy Squeezy galloped as well as unbeaten stablemate Racy Rory (second week) in a 600
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    • 383 39 NST. PENANG-BASED trainer Bonny Ng's Dipang Ranger is among three Class 3 newcomers entered for the Perak Turf Club's first meeting of the 2004 season starting on Saturday. Racing as All Guns in Australia, the three-year-old chestnut Australian-bred gelding by Irgun out of Octroon raced once
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    • 169 39 AFP. FORMER Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) chairman Alan Li has died in Phuket, Thailand, at the age of 66. He was believed to have suffered a heart attack. Li, who was HKJC chairman from 1998 to 2002, is credited with lifting the profile of
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    • 1201 40  -  By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg S IMPLY magical! The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) mesmerised the racing world with its HK$9O million ($2O million) world's biggest Diamond Vision screen at Sha Tin racetrack on Dec 14 last year. That was when
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    • 76 41 NOT UP TO INTERNATIONAL MARK: Although Nlnetytive Emperor (left, with champion Jockey Saimee Jumaatatop) Is all the rage In Singapore, the Charles Leck-trained galloper proves no match for his International rivals In the Hong Kong Mile Just a little over a fortnight ago. Picture/ Hong Kong Jockey
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    • 967 41 1.00 RACE 1 C4— 1200m 1 Share The Fun GMosse 4) 60 2 Smiling Foreet PHLo 1) 60 3 Salentino FCoetzee (10) 59.5 4 Star Warrior S Dye 7) 58 5 Love On Eartth KTYeung 8) 56 6 Royal Exchange DWhyte (12) 56
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    • 1793 42 1 TRUE STEEL: Giant front-running six-year-old who caused an upset all-the-way win in the Group 1 Fruit 'N' Veg Stakes (2,000 m) on Dec 13 last year. Had a mild
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    • 937 43 1.15 RACE 1 MR PI —1000m (straight) 1 Business As Usual N Selvan 9) 55 2 Business Boss MDjulkifli 1) 55 3 Dewan Suria RPoobalan 3) 55 4 Enchanted Prince MPegus (11) 55 5 Forward Power *A Kumar 8) 55 6 Fullchamp ISaifudin 6) 55 7
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    • 950 43 1.00 RACE 1 C5P3—1400m (SC) 1 Financial Czar MSuhaimi 1) 57 2 JeramMas R Price (14) 57 3 Lavender ♦HKLim 7) 56.5 4 Non Negotiable KT Cheng 5) 56 5 Joker Seng DChee 9) 55.5 6 Wanko TMWan 8) 55.5 7 Luck And Fortune M Au
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    • 196 44 EXCLUSIVE s X A R eboutthe beat for many years now. And he has had yet another great year for club and country. LEFT-BACK: Roberto Carlos He is the best left-back in the world, for sure. I have no hesitation in selecting Roberto
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        32 45 As we say farewell to 2003, local coach TOHARI PAW AN gives Wang Meng Meng his picks for the best and worst of the year in the English Premier League.
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      • 154 45 I REALLY salute Arsenal for the way they bounced back in the Champions League. They lost their first three group games and won the next three to qualify for the next round. They really came back from the dead and I think that's really some
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      • 220 45 UNTIL Arsenal move into their new 60,000-seater stadium at Ashburton Grove, Arsene Wenger won't be able to touch Sir Alex Ferguson as the best manager in the Premiership. Assistant managers may change, players may come and go, but Ferguson continues to reign at
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      • 195 45 FERGIE has created the Man U brand of exciting one-touch attacking football. On their day, the Red 1 Devils' passing game is unstoppable and a joy to i watch. And they have been incredibly consistent over i many seasons to maintain i their stylish performances.
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      • 110 46 LEEDS have been very disappointing, even during Peter Reid's t time as manager. Mark Viduka doesn't wan}; to play, there are problems i behind the scenes and there l is just no harmony in the club at all. I think they are serious candidates for >
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      • 220 46 am LONG with Leeds, I i would pick Tottenham 1 Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers to go down. Wolves are an automatic choice because they don't have the resources to sustain their Premiership status. J As for Spurs, they are like, a ship without a captain. i
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      • 156 46 ITS a tough choice between Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy, ut I will go for the Frenchman because he's more flexible. Both players went through bad times. Henry had a torrid spell at Juventus and Van Nistelrooy had to overcome a career-threatening injury. It's a
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      • 313 46 CHELSEA seem to be losing steam and it looks like a two-horse race between Man U and Arsenal at the moment. If I have to pick a winner, it will have to be the Red Devils. They have their future batch of players now. The future
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        1070 47 THE Italian Serie A boast the omnipotent Gigi Buffon of Juventus. In Spain, Real Madrid's Iker Casillas is regarded as the Primera Liga's No 1. So it is a little surprising that humble Southampton are the roost of the English Premier League's top goalkeeper Antti Niemi. While Tim Howard,
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        983 49 ITS easy to heap praise on established names like Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand and Sami Hyypia. But what about the unsung heroes whose best work remain invisible? This year has thrown up some unheralded playefs m the best defender category. 1 Andy Melville and Zat Knight are a solid
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        1106 51 ONE player who has no real need to watch his back at Chelsea is Frank Lampard. Turbulent is the word to describe the moneybags' first XI. But the England international has been the only one shining gloriously in the Blues' 19 Premiership matches so far. That's probably the best
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        1143 53  -  WANG MENG MENG i ii rw* ir S Thierry Henry the best striker in the world right iV now? That's one of the current hot topics as cafes in Europe and kopitiams in Singapore are alive with chatter on how Arsenal's smoking gun compares with the stiff competition from
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    • 1212 55 A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF BECKHAM by PETE JENSON JANUARY THINGS were pretty quiet for Beckham 12 months ago. He was part of a Manchester United team that beat Chelsea to go second in the Prpm i Jfr yn H hit West Ham
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    • 2220 56 Fans of Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea will usher in the new year with smiles. Fans of Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United will usher it with worries. ERNEST LUIS holds a discussion with six fans from the local fan clubs of these
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    • 61 56 Goalkeeper Chris Kirkland Right-back: Steve Carr (Spurs) Central defence: Dominic Matteo (Leeds), Sami Hyypia (Liverpool) Left-back: Mauricio Taricco (Spurs) Riglit mktfiekJ: Jermaine Pennant (Leeds) Central mkffield: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Dietmar Hamann (Liverpool) Left mktfleld: Harry Kewell (Liverpool) Strikers: Fredric Kanoute (Spurs), Michael Owen (Liverpool) Subs: Alan
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    • 140 57 ROD MONTEIRO'S NBU XI (4-4-2 formation) GERARD HOULLIER JERZY DUDEK LAUREN SAMI HYYPIA PASCAL CYQAN JOHNARNE RUSE STEVEN GERRARD PATRICK VIEIRA RAY PARLOUR FRANCIS JEFFERS EMILE HESKEY THIERRY HENRY Well, guess what? They're all Liverpool and Arsenal players! All managed by the head honcho of the Uglies
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    • 176 58 RACHEL LEE'S ABU XI 1-5-4 formation) Actually, my Handsome XI has only one defender. Frank Queudrue of Middlesbrough. But we can score enough goals to make up the difference. He's very funky and none of David Beckham's numerous hairstyles can match his. I decided not to choose
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    • 205 59 flnipines can win either the Singapore cup or the S-League. And if the Singapore national team can simply do better. Mr Teo Hock Seng, chairman of S-League club H Tampines Rovers JlHfc An U fail to win the English Premier League this season! And if I
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      306 60 ARSENAL GOALKEEPER HITS OUT Reuters. ARSENAL'S German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann (above) can really take the heat. Under pressure for deliberately throwing the ball at Kevin Phillips, he insisted he would not change his aggressive manner in dealing with opposing strikers. He faces a ban after he was
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      259 61  -  FA CUR (Third Round) [EXCLUSIVE In TOTTENHAM v CRYSTAL PALACE (SATURDAY) By JULIAN GRAY CRYSTAL PALACE CRYSTAL Palace want to maintain the fiery reputation as FA Cup giant-killers. We're off to White Hart Lane on Saturday to face Tottenham Hotspur with a lot of confidence. There's such a
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    • 107 61 SATURDAY Tranmere v Bolton Cardiff City vSheffUtd Watford v Chelsea Accringtonv Colchester Ipswich Town v Derby Kidderminster vWotves Man City v Leicester Mansfield v Burnley Borov Notts County Millwallv Walsall Northampton vRotherham Nottm Forest v West Brom Portsmouth v Blackpool Preston v Reading Bamsleyv Scunthorpe Southend v Scarborough Sunderland
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    • 181 61 Reuters. COUNTRY or club, Fred? For Tottenham Hotspur's top scorer Frederic Kanoute, it wil be country first. Rather defiantly, he has decided to play for Mali in the African Nations Cup a choice that will shock the die-hards at White Hart Lane. Haidara Mamadou, assistant
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      414 62 Time BOYS GARY NEVILLE'S DARE TO ENGLAND MANAGER: IT may be the darnest of New Year wishes. But England defender Gary Neville has offered this festive dare to Sven-Goran Eriksson: Pledge your future to England. He wants the manager to openly show faith so that the players
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