The New Paper, 8 May 2004

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  • 29 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2004 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 in the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 629 2  -  The Institute of Mental Health spends $4m a year on the... Hundreds have been there for over 10 years, a 99-year-old has spent 57 years at IMH By Genevieve Jiang geneviev@sph.com. sg They are the forgotten souls of the Institute of Mental Health. The ones
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    • 453 2 THE large number of long-term patients at IMH has been a drain on the hospital as it went into the red by $7 million in 2001. It was one of the reasons given for the hospital having to raise its
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    • 124 2 FOR 57 years, a quiet ward at IMH has been her home, and the nurses and doctors, her only family. Madam Lam Lee (back facing, with senior nurse Vijiya Kumari Rajoo) is believed to be 99, and one of IMH's longest-staying patients. There are some as old as
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    • 836 3  -  I It's not lust llMluiigs New tests can detect Sars fast There are many tests that can now be used to diagnose Sars. Researchers at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have been perfecting the tests over the past year
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    • 165 3 DOCTORS at the University Hospital Groningen, in The Netherlands, examined various organs and tissues, looking for enzyme receptors that enable Sars-CoV to bind to cells. The doctors, who are also publishing their work in The Journal of Pathology, found these enzyme receptors at several locations,
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    • 785 4  -  REPORT PICTURES ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF zaihtm(aaph.com.sg ON your bikes, get set, go! Look who's recycling history! The motorcycle street racers are back legally! Tomorrow, 55 motorcyclists will tear down a Kallang carpark and there will be no cops chasing them. Incredible? Actually,
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    • 10 2 News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Pages 38—42 TV: Pages 44—45
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 296 5 Health-care packages planned with Air Asia, specialist hospitals Medical tourists bring $18m in revenue to M'sia last year IN a bid to nab a bigger slice of the tourism pie, Johor is setting its sights on the lucrative medical tourism industry. State Executive Councillor for
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    • 123 5 TWO major players in Temasek Holdings' offer to buy United Overseas Bank's (UOB) property stake will sit it out during the crucial voting process. UOB chairman and chief executive Wee Cho Yaw has announced that he will not be casting
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    • 50 5 S'POREcompanies ONNfISPAQ (Close in USS/Changel Pacific Internet 10.05/-0.06 Creative Technology 10.20/-0.10 Flextronics 16.01/unch Chartered Semiconductor 8.42/+O.ll Stats 8.54/unch Yesterday's Percentage ose action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 1.21% (123.92 pts) Down 1.02% (19.78 pts) Down 1.37% (15.29 pts) Down 1.23% (22.89 pts) 10.117.34 1,917.96 1,098.7 1,843.72
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    • 153 5 EIGHT permanent secretaries will leave the civil service this year or next year. They include Mr Peter Chan, former Permanent Secretary (National Development) who retired on April 1; and Mr Tan Chin Tiong, Permanent Secretary (Foreign Affairs), who leaves on July 15. They are the first to
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    • 65 5 PRIVATE school Nanyang Institute of Management is under investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD). CAD officers raided its premises in Upper Thomson Road and seized various documents. One of the school's lecturers claimed that these included applications for student passes. Also under probe is government-linked
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    • 66 5 AT least one in five volunteers at Mendaki are non-Malays, making up 650 of their 3,600 volunteers. This trend of volunteers helping in communities other than their own, has also been noticed by officials of the Indian and Eurasian self-help groups. The increase in non-Malay volunteers is
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    • 81 5 THE haze probably won't be that bad this year, says the Environment Ministry. The reason is that the El Nino phenomenon, which worsens the haze, won't happen in the next three to six months. El Nino brings dry conditions that aid the forest fires set by
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    • 60 5 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has dismissed talk that his son-in-law, Khairy Jamaluddin, will head Khazanah Nasional, a powerful state investment firm. Media reports have speculated that Mr Khairy, 28, would be appointed chief operating officer in a move to revamp government-linked companies. Mr Khairy,
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 255 7 BLOUSE TORN, CHEST SCRATCHED THEIR relationship began on air, and ended in a scuffle at a Ramadan bazaar. Noraisha Abdul Rahman, in her 40s, and Ms Nachiah Sultan Mohd, 45 were avid fans of local Malay language radio station Ria. Both made frequent
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    • 218 7  -  By Genevieve Jiang geneviev@sph. com. sg LOOK out for symptoms of depression and grief in your daughters. That was the advice given to the parents of all students of St Margaret's Secondary yesterday, following the death of their principal Mrs Caroline Lee.
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    • 295 8  -  By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph.com.sg DO not implicate my client and I'll give you free legal advice. That is what a lawyer here allegedly told his client's accomplice. He may have been trying to help his client escape a criminal charge. But now the lawyer
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    • 82 8 SINGAPORE IDOL Viewers are divided over whether Mr PCK will measure up as the host of the franchise talent quest. While some thought him too old, others felt his maturity and experience will stand him in good stead. Gurmit himself thought he was a better
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    • Article, Illustration
      150 9 GET ready for a Big Walk with a difference. The New Paper Big Walk will be covering new ground this year. It was either walk a new path or postpone the walk. Like it was postponed for Sars last year. We didn't want to postpone again this
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  • 319 11 Arrested in Jakarta, Hong Kong in separate cases WORLD Wire Services. TWO Singaporeans have been arrested in separate incidents for smuggling Ecstasy pills worth a total of more than $lmillion. They were about to board flights in Jakarta and Hong Kong. In Jakarta,
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  • WORLD
    • 361 13 LATEST AP. MORE tales of torture at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are coming out. A British television station reported today that a young Iraqi girl held at the prison was stripped naked and beaten while her brother heard her scream from
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    • 430 13 Iraq p and Vietnam US journalist Seymour Hersh (left) has a knack for digging up information that others find hard to unearth. His latest scoop is rocking the upper echelons of power in the US. The Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter from The New
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    • 386 14 Husband convicted after UK woman predicted attack IT'S eerie how the text message came true for Ms Julie Sheppard. Howard Woodin, 45, stabbed Ms Sheppard 26 times then claimed he acted in self defence exactly what she had said he would. She had stored the message
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    • 520 15 Bubble has burst, say analysts. $72b in capital value wiped out Singaporeans with cash to spare and an eye on the property market in Australia may want to give their plans a rethink. Because the property bubble down under has burst. The Australian reported that prices
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    • 252 15 AP OIL prices hit US$4O ($67) a barrel on Friday a 7 percent hike in a week. The surge pushed US light crude prices to their highest level since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading to the Gulf War. It is fuelled by concerns over security in
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    • 363 16 BLAST IN PAKISTAN j AFP. THE Haideri mosque in Karachi was packed with Muslim faithfuls who were there for their Friday prayers. Undetected, the bomber made his way among the rows of worshippers and detonated a bomb that left blood spattered
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 187 18 SOME put it down to fengshui, literally, air and water. But no-one can really explain why Nan Xing village in Perak has so many twins and triplets. In this "twins village" of 3,000 or 600 families there are 38 pairs of twins and one set of triplets, reported
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    • 664 18 Student, 17, snatched off street in broad daylight University student, 19, tricked by Internet date THESE boys (right) are just 17 and 18 years old, but they have been accused of a heinous crime. The teens had allegedly abducted a 17-year-old female student as
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  • TECH
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    • 493 21  -  By Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg IF you are looking for a camera phone that does NOT scream "I can take pictures!", the Samsung X6OOA might just fit the bill. Unlike many camera phones where the camera lens is often found in weird positions on the exterior
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    • 261 22 Wire services. IT'S boom time in the digital and electronics world. And Japanese powerhouses like Matsushita Electric Industrial and Hitachi are spending bick bucks to find the next big thing. Research and development outlays planned by nine major firms
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  • TECH
    • 739 26 Wire services. SO you've spent an hour Googling through the Web for your graduate research paper, you've played the Google drinking game, heard the Google theme song and vanity-Googled yourself. Turn on the TV and you find they're talking about Google on Sex And The City
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    • 412 27 Wire services. THE fast-spreading Sasser computer worm has infected hundreds of thousands of PCs globally, disrupting banking and other businesses in one of the biggest virus-like attacks on the Internet. Here are brief descriptic of five major viruses, according to various security firms,
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  • cut it as Idol host?
    • 1049 31  -  I i v :> V I By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg HE bridges generations. He has mass appeal. He was the first choice of the MediaCorp producers. But can Gurmit Singh (right) best known on TV for his funnyman Phua Chu Kang role be
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    • 343 31 What's wVth Kit Imago ovwhaui? If s a new lode for Singapore Idol! It also makes me more accessible to the young ones. I've been working out at the gym since the beginning of the year maybe I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I've also gone
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    • 698 32  -  J****' By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg FOR someone who transforms so monstrously into The Wolf Man, Will Kemp is certainly not a dog. On the contrary, the handsome dancer-actor hailed by GQ and Vogue magazines as "the next big thing" is giving women something to
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    • 61 32 HUGHJACKMAN (below, as Van Helsing): I fC WIU witnessed 3 guy who worked so hard before. He starts woridag out at 4am, he's oa the set every he goes home to his wife and small -i.MJI i cnira ana, wniie Turning, he was travelling around doing press for
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    • 122 32 RICHARD ROXBURGH (right, as Count Dracula): 'Td be laughing with him, but when ifs 'action', I'd watch him change from an Aussie Joker into a sexy, powerful and scary Dracula. He seemed to be harnessing Dracula's soul and just turns it on—ifs all in the eyes. That's
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    • Article, Illustration
      770 33  -  Rising S'pore singer Huang Yidaon what makes him 'Indefinable' By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph. com.sg SOME say he looks like Taiwanese actor Brian Zheng. Others say he bears some resemblance to local songbird Stefanie Sun. And, already, it seems like newbie singer-songwriter Huang Yida may be on his
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  • HEY!
    • Chasez has winning side
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        301 35  -  PICK OFTHE WEEK JC Chasez IN the fab five that was N'Sync, JC Chasez worked as hard as fellow boybander Justin Timberlake. He shared lead vocals on most of the songs, he was a smooth dancer and he had a sexy mug. But even after the group went on
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      • 107 35  -  Gigi Leung THIS album is where Gigi belongs. With 10 melodious hum-friendly tunes tailored for her by an all-female musical team, she aims to soothe broken hearts and forlorn souls alike. Gigi croons with sincerity and her vastly improved vocal techniques show. Credit should also go to
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      • Article, Illustration
        108 35  -  Various IF you are en route to Sydney's Mardi Gras, or dancing with the girls at Blue Boys in KL or Bangkok's DJ Station, this compilation album will be perfect to prepare you for the journey. It's a collection of mindless thumping dance music. Recommended tracks include Bucci
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    • 291 46 NST. DE JET, who used to race as Buster at Kranji, wrapped up his preparation for the Class 4 Div 1 event over 1,200 m in Race 8 tomorrow with a good hit-out yesterday. Taken put by visiting Australian jockey Anthony Cfcvallo, the five-year-old Australian-bred entire
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    • 109 47 APPRENTICES Razali Musa and Mohd Hairin came away with mixed fortunes after their heavy tumble in the opening event involving stablemates Tsugunai and Very Good Ricat Kranji last night. Razali escaped with no serious injuries after being thrown off Tsugunai at the
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    • 1231 47 RACE 1: Timbertop (inappetant and dull) was scratched. Fountain Of Wealth was restless in the barriers. Monde Golds jumped awkwardly and threw his head. Royal Pacific jumped awkwardly out and was further inconvenienced when tightened between King Of Torts and Southern Chief, who
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  • 56 56 EPUSPANISH GERMAN LEAGUE/S'PORE CUP Strike (1) Man U 2.15 (X) Draw 3.05 (2) Chelsea 2.97 1/? GOAL Man U (-1 1/2) 4.00 Chelsea (+1 1/2) 1.18 TOTAL GOALS 0 7.20 6 B.60 1 4.30 6 17.00 2 3.00 7 30.00 3 3.90
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  • 51 56 (1) Boro (X) Draw (2) Man Oty 2.05 3.10 3.13 112 GOAL Boro (-1 1/2) Man City (+1 1/2) 3.80 1.22 TOTAL GOALS 0 7.50 .5 1 4.50 6 8.40 15.00 2 3.80 7 3 3.90 8 4 5.40 9+ 28.00 55.00
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  • 47 56 (1) Everton 2.20 (X) Draw 3.08 (2) Bolton 2.85 1/2 GOAL Everton (-1 1/2) 4.00 Bolton (+1 1/2) 1.16 TOTAL GOALS 0 7.80 5 8.00 1 4.60 6 14.00 2 3.90 7 26.00 3 3.90 8 55.00 4 5.40 9+ 85.00
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  • 40 56 (1) Southampton (X) Draw (2) Villa 1 '2 GOAL Southampton (+1 1/2) Villa (-1 1/2) 1.23 3.50 TOTAL GOALS 7.50 5 8.40 4.50 6 15.00 3.80 7 29.00 3.90 8 60.00 5.30 9+ 106.00
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  • 47 56 (1) Birmingham 3.73 (X) Draw 3.20 (2) Liverpool 1.82 1/2GOAI Birmingham (+1 1/2) 1.25 Liverpool (-1 1/2) 3.35 TOTAL GOALS 0 7.20 5 6.20 1 4.30 6 17.00 2 3.80 7 31.00 3 4.00 8 70.00 4 5.30 9> 105.00
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  • 51 56 (1) Celta Vigo 4 55 (X) Draw 3.52 (2) Barcelona 1.60 1/2 GOAL CoKa Vigo (+1 1/2) 1.35 Barcelona (-1 1/2) 2.80 TOTAL GOALS 0 9.00 5 6.60 1 5.60 6 11.00 2 4.10 7 23.00 3 4.00 B 60.00 4 4.70 9*
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  • 54 56 (1) B Munich 1.88 (X) Draw 3.13 (2) W Bremen 3.60 V2G0AI B Munich (-1 1/2) 3.60 W Bremen (+1 1/2) 1.22 TOTAL GOALS 1 0 8.00 5 7.30 1 5.40 6 9.80 2 4.20 7 18.00 3 4.20 8 35.00
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  • 50 56 (1) Sinchl 1.45 (X) Draw 4.35 (2) NFL Tampioes 4.75 1/2 GOAL SlncM (-1 1/2) 1.95 NFLTampines (♦I 1/2) 1.70 TOTAL GOALS 0 17.00 5 5.10 1 9.20 6 7.20 2 6.00 7 12.00 3 4.60 6 17.00 4 4.50 9* 17.00
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  • 59 56 (1) Yg Lions 1.08 (X) Draw 9.60 (2) NFL Semb 10.00 1 '2 GOAL Yg Lions (-3 1/2) 1.66 NFL Semb (+3 1/2) 1.80 TOTAL GOALS j 0 31.00 5 5.70 1 18.00 6 5.80 2 9.70 7 7.40 3 7.00
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  • 197 56 Wire Services. CHELSEA aim to make history at Old Trafford tonight when a point would see them finish above Manchester United in the Premiership for the first time. Chelsea have already beaten Arsenal for the first time in 17 matches—at Highbury in a Champions League
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      • 730 58  -  BRIAN MILLER DFDFD FORGET the "battle" for second spot. Actually, what battle are they talking about? Battles are fought between warriors. And, drawing a sword through their recent showings, Chelsea and Manchester United are no warriors. Granted, they are by virtue of their spots on
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      • 256 59  -  EDWIN YEO THIS is possibly the most boring finish to the English Premier League season ever. Champions already settled, relegation clubs more or less decided and three out of four Champions League spots confirmed. So there's Manchester United v Chelsea, the winner of which will
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      • 149 59 AS this season's English Premier League comes to a close, Tiger Beer brings to football and non-football lovers alike yet another exciting football experience with its famous Tiger Football Night. The last exciting live-screening at The Atrium saw over 500 people absorbing the football fever and taking
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      • 68 60 DANIEL FINKELSTEIN (below) Is Associate Editor of The Times in London. He writes a weekly soccer column as well as being a leader writer. Before joining The Times, Rnkelstein was Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet and adviser to the Leader of the Opposition (William Hague MP) and
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      • 619 60 THE FINK TANK... a new way to beat others THE reputation of Joe DiMaggio, the great American baseball player, has taken a battering in recent years. Notoriously tight fisted and often rude, he does not emerge from biographies as a nice
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        234 61 THIS WEEK'S PREDICTIONS (Percentage chance of each full-time outcome) DANIEL FINKELSTEIN'S nw DATE HOME AWAY f team im 1 1] My J May 8 Birmingham Liverpool 31 29 38 *mm- 12 6 7 2 2 12 13 4 14 8 8 3 3 May 8 Everton Bolton 43 26
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      • 104 62 36 > Games jj PL i .U* \W. SfeSiF < M _T,&rJp r>rTr2ri M Yallw cardi 'HjllK M 30 PUfsn usarf 21 |CLUB LEADERS LEEDS CHARLTON Ooate VOuM 11 EiaM 7 8 Bortiofl 5 AIMtnpIl Sntiiri 72 Eu* 46 vouMae J«»®n 40 AtlmiKi Cra«M f'oonunl
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      • 107 62 tt*5i arrz r \i r f KTSV) PQiMswr »»*auk Mjfc^ T]ir,-r WjIU' 'A^ifa JPKk^BBT^J L \Wm^J] tfK3 .5 IIL M nwrmmrnmm* '^nrnriizz^ |CLUB LEADERS LEICESTER PORTSMOUTH Goals 1 nrtiliwK) 12 Alyegtmni 1? Dant 'i Shnringtiom ft Attempts Bent 56 Alyp(jl>0"i Hfi DieKov 51 Shwnngtiam 45 Attempt*
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      • 120 62 Andrew's Wwdty 8th May 3004, SJSpm [club leaders crtv LIVERPOOL Ooata Fwsaai17 Owen 14 Momson 4 Kowoft 7 Anmrnf/la Fcrjaa* r 1 KuwuN 03 Dunn 43 Owen 00 Attempts Crutpd Lalando 43 KweUM Savage* Gotten! 63 Tackles Savoga 148 G—nra 120 Jatvncan 133 Haniann 106 Passing
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      • 122 62 UNITED and Chelsea have hit the woodwork 16 times apiece the joint-highest in the Premiership this season NO TEAM has won more Premiership games at Old Trafford than Chelsea the Blues have won there on three occasions Saturday M 8 >» J M, 12JOpm [club leaders
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      • 119 62 ARSENAL are unbeaten in their last 24 Premiership London derbies ARSENAL have only lost six of 69 Premiership London derbies under Arsene Wenger Loftui Hold 1m*M$ Wh May 30Q4, 4.05pm |CLUB LEADERS FULHAM ARSENAL Goal* Safia t3 Hanry 29 Oca Motto y Ptrw 14 Attempts Malbrnnqur t\
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      • FA BARCLAYCARD PREMIERSHIP – OPTA INDEX RANKINGS
        • 80 63 r.wxm A s B Includes an matches uoto Monday 3rd Ma* 2004 TOTAL SAVES RAMI PLAYER TEAM TOTAL NAME NAME SAVES Mwta Vm ftar Sa* Fullwn 146 1 Daan Kt*ly Charlton Atnietic 138 3 Kaiey Killer Tottenham nottpui 130 Brad FrtaiM Blackburn Riwen 125 S tan Walker Laiccslet
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        • 132 63 TOTAL TACKLES I TOTAL CLEARANCES RANK PLATER TEAM TOTAl NAME NAME CIFAMANCK 1 Sylvaln Oistkn Manchaster City 413 7 Sam I ttyypla Livarpool 372 3 Ar)an 0« 7t«uw Portsmouth 345 4 Olol Maltha rg Aslnn Villa 343 4 /atyiah Kalfht Fulham 337 t Paul Butler WOlOTSS 331 1
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        • 193 63 TOTAL CREATED I TOTAL TACKLES HANK PLAYER TEAM TOTAL NAME NAME TACKLES 1 Sealt Parker Chetxea/ChaMnn 176 2 George Boateng Middlesbrough 171 3 Alai Raa Wolves 16? 4 Sylvaln lagwlnskl Fulham 150 5 Robbie Savage Birmingham City 146 G Frank Lampard Chelsea 140 7 Thomas Gravasan Everton 136
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        • 221 63 Liverpool's Harry Kewell and Middlesbrough's Jonathan Greening clash in Sunday's game at Anfield. I TOTAL ATTEMPTS RANK PLAYER TLAM TOTAL NAME NAMt SHOTS 1 Thierry Henry Arsenal 155 Juan Pablo togal Aston Villa 94 3 Lairii Saha Man UM/Fulham 94 4 NkoJas Aaetka Manchester City 04 5 Yakubu
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        • 245 63 TEAM ATTEMPTS TOTAL SHOTS ATTEMPTED Liverpool 419 Bnllon Wandeiera 4*7 Chelsea 458 Manchester Clly 472 Arsenal 407 Manchester United 403 felon Villa 385 Wolverhampton Wanderers JOO Blackburn Rovers 3*8 Fverton 303 Tottenham Hotspur 30? Felham 300 Middlesbrough 367 Newcastle Untied 356 Leicester Clly 355 Charlton Athletic 349 Portsmouth
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        • 369 63 OPTA PLAYER RANKINGS INDEX RANK PLAYER TtAM OfTA NAME NAME INOEX 1 Thierry Henry Arsenal 1514 7 Roy Kiim Manchester United 136? 3 Paal SciiolM Mandwster United 133? 4 Fran* I ampard Chelsea 1701 5 Robert Kinw Arsenal 1761 6 Slewn Garrard Liverpool 1730 7 Eil«4n Vhi der
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      • 271 64 PA Sport. Manchester united's Quinton Fortune has rejected suggestions that suspensions, injuries and new players can be used as an excuse for the Red Devils' failure to defend the title. The Red Devils' league season has tailed off alarmingly over the last month with three defeats
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      • 630 65 UK TIPSTER: JONATHAN TURNER MAN UNITED v CHELSEA THIS looked likely to be a pivotal game at the start of the season but the lunch-time offering now has little riding on it. There will be those who argue that the Red Devils will be going
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      • 506 65 PA Sport. MAN UNITED v CHELSEA: Ruud van Nisteirooy is set to return at Old Trafford. The Dutch striker has been plagued by knee and thigh problems in recent weeks but Sir Alex Ferguson has declared the 26-goal striker ready. Paul Scholes returns from a three-match ban, while
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      • 1090 66 PA Sport. RIGHT from Day One, Gerard Houllier never under-estimated the long-term threat of Aston Villa. He knew that David O'Leary's men will be up there among the front-pack in contention for the top honours. "Villa are a real threat now. But my staff
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      • 137 66 LIVERPOOL Tonight: BkmhiglMiii (a): Birmingham's own European hopes may befadingfast but Liverpool will find them a tough nut. (PiwHCUOK 1-1) Why ISi N—cirtto (h); With Newcastle limping towards the end of the season, expect Liverpool to grab full points. (2-1) ASTON VILLA 1 ■Tonight SoutfnnptMi
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      • 72 66 PA Sport. ASTON Villa chairman Doug Ellis has rubbished suggestions that manager David O'Leary could leave the club to take over at Chelsea. Ellis insists he will be going nowhere. "David has done a fantastic job since he arrived last summer and it's ridiculous to even think
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      • 613 67 Mourinho ready for Chelsea challenge Wire Services. IT seems to be the end of the road for Claudio Ranieri as the Chelsea boss. News out last night is that Porto boss Jose Mourinho has struck a secret £4 million-a-year ($12.07 m) deal to take charge of Chelsea
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      • 298 67 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE, ITALIAN SERIE A SPANISH PRIMERA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS SOCCER ALERTS 0 ANALYSES FROM FOREIGN EXPERTS 0 LATEST TEAM LINE-UP 0 EXCITING RREAKING NEWS EVERY DAY! 0 UP-TO-THE-MINUTE SCORES OTHER MATCH ALERTS! ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE CODES Arsenal AFC Leicester LCFC Aston Villa AVFC Liverpool LFC Birmingham 6FC Man
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      • 382 68 From teacher, translator, assistant coach to one of Europe's most wanted bosses PROFILE: JOSE MOURINHO PA Sport. FROM teaching in the school gym to studying the form of Porto's Champions League final opponents, Jose Mourinho chose an unorthodox route to the summit of European football. He has
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      • 252 68 PA Sport. HE always wanted to be a coach. But for many years it was hard to imagine him fulfilling the dream, despite his father, Felix, having played in goal for Portugal. After failing to become a professional player, the young Mourinho bought himself a dog called
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      • 115 68 PA Sport. HE first took charge at Benfica but resigned after three months due to problems in the boardroom. From there he went to Uniao de Lairia and guided the club to fourth place in the Portuguese League their best-ever position. That was an eye-catching achievement, enough
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        646 70 20 PAGES OF WEEKEND SOCCER ACTION/TOP TIP: ZOOM IN ON 4TH-SPOT FIGHT PA Sport. PA Sport. MANCHESTER United chief David Gill says David Beckham will not be returning to Manchester United. The England captain's future has been the subject of frenzied speculation in recent weeks. He's been linked
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      • 589 69  -  COMMENT ERNEST LUIS tnp@sph.com.tg AFTER being dumped out of the Champions League on Wednesday, Chelsea could very well end this season on a real low by their high standards. That is, by losing second spot to Manchester United in the Premiership and
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      • 312 69  -  By ADRIAN CHAN THE heat is on. Manchester United play Chelsea tonight in a match that could decide who finishes runners-up behind Premiership champions Arsenal. Dennis Foo, owner of Devils Bar and a Man U supporter, feels that
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      • 550 69  -  EXCLUSIVE W^r T By RYAN GIGGS MANCHESTER UNITED ITS a shame tonight's match at home to Chelsea isn't going to be crucial to our chances of retaining the title. But it is still very
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      • 253 69 GO for a draw or a Chelsea win. That seems to be what most regular punters are putting their money on. "Man U will be aiming for the FA Cup, that's for sure lah," said retiree Lee Kai Cheong, 66. "Winning the Cup will be
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    • 191 69 asm PREMIER LEAGUE MAN UTDv CHELSEA Ch 23, 7.25pm, tonight The prize at stake is automatic Champions League qualification. Man U (71 points) must win if they are to stay in the running. Chelsea (75) need only to draw. Both have been duds in recent outings which makes a draw
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