The New Paper, 27 December 2004

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  • 31 1 the new paper MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2004 I Website: newpaper.asia I.com.se 1 III mm S,n^0rePreSSH0/d//l^S Email: tnp@sph com sg E MICA (P) 025/03/2004 j 70 CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 •the ft
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  • NEWS
    • Day of the KILLER WAVE
      • 84 2 -JIML s tm Earthquakes, caused 1 by the shilling of the sea floor along giant cracks, create powerful ripples on the ocean surface 1 1 vi f J*Hl v Tim mni n ,aj 1 2 jstsusss^ movea, dk mqjbt uw tsunami (giant waves) ajetplaiie 111 y|
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      • 1188 2 THE sky was faultlessly blue. The sea calm. American Michael Dobbs was having his morning swim around a small island his brother had bought in Sri Lanka. As he was about a quarter way around the island, which is about 180 m from
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      • 1476 3 FOR one tourist, it began with a pleasant stroll on a beach, followed by surprise at seeing water being sucked away from the beach. Meanwhile, a diver was puzzled to see clear waters suddenly becoming murky with strong undercurrents. A honeymooning couple from Singapore was
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      • 706 4 HOLIDAY picnickers in Penang could only watch in horror as the killer tidal wave washed away entire families yesterday. Mr Mohamad Shamson, 21, for example, lost five family members when the wave slammed Miami Beach in Batu Ferringhi. The bodies of his mother,
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      • 630 5 THE little Singaporean M lay there breathing jSc. softly, fast asleep at a Phuket hospital. Wff&' And 3-year-old Tan Wei En does not know that his parents are not with him. flml, So far no-one has been by IgPjjp his side. While the
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      • Article, Illustration
        68 6 Tourists face death and destruction as tsunami hits Phuket y Penang RUINED: (Above) The garden and swimming pool ofßayview Beach Resort at Batu Ferringhi were left muddy and dirty. The waters washed the deck chairs away and left many belongings floating around. (Top) Injured tourists being sent to
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    • 22 2 Car floats into hotel lobby/ Pages 4 and 5 He watched as wave took his family/ Page 6 Holiday hell/ Page 8
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 210 7 GREAT EXPECTATIONS PRIVATE property prices are expected to go up by about 9 per cent next year, say property analysts. This would be welcome relief for home owners who have seen their property value dropping for the last four years. The better economy,
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    • 108 7 NOT SO GREAT EXPECTATIONS THIS year seems to have been a boom recovery year for Singapore stocks. But expect next year's stock market to be generally bearish or neutral, say five out of six analysts in their outlook reports for 2005. The reason? Concerns
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    • 121 7 LAST WEEK: Volume was light with US markets closed on Friday. The Straits Times Index ended unchanged. Oil prices plunged 3 per cent Wednesday on news of warm winter weather and high heating oil inventories. In the US, stock markets ended the week at 31/2 year highs. The
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    • 37 7 MERRY X'MAS, UNCLE: This ice-cream vendor got bombarded when jubilant revellers sprayed party foam on him in the middle of Orchard Road during Friday night's Christmas countdown. Pictures/ Kua Chee Siong
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    • 77 7 JOB redesign remains the National Trades Union Congress' (NTUC) top priority next year, says the labour movement's secretary-general Mr Lim Boon Heng. He said this was especially for older workers who find it harder to get new jobs. Mr Lim added that NTUC is working with
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    • 81 7 A TOTAL 0f298 motorists were caught for traffic offences during a tough police crackdown over the festive weekend. The operation lasted between 11pm on Saturday to sam yesterday. Up to 215 motorists were caught for speeding and 21 were arrested for drink-driving. The festive season also saw
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    • 72 7 THE Singapore International Foundation (SIF), which signs up young people for overseas volunteer expeditions, has started a similar programme for working adults. Since the Singapore Executive Expeditions and Chief Executive Expeditions was launched a month ago, one company has signed up for 15 executives for a two-week trip
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    • 72 7 TEMASEK Polytechnic will partner with Sentosa Leisure Group to site its newest campus on Sentosa. Four 100-year-old buildings in the central part of the island will be transformed into the Tourism Academy for 260 hospitality and tourism management students. The location allows students to work with
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    • 84 7 FORMER national swimmer Thum Ping Tjin, 25, and adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow, 40, are vying to be the first Singaporean to swim solo across the English Channel. Both have booked slots with the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation to swim from England to France in August
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    • 82 7 HONG Kong police believe that the almost ten-fold rise in cocaine seizures this year shows that South American drug barons are targeting South-east Asia as a growth market, reported the South China Morning Post. They say the shift in focus towards the region is due to
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 46 7 I N\Y purl T* I CHARACTER FLAW REVIEW THE SPREAD- i PHILOSOPHY 15 ISN'T A. PHILOSOPHY SHEET THAT I E-ttAILED? THAT ANYTHING ISN T A PHILOSOPHY. I WORTH DOING IS i TOO HARD. X LIKE TO I DIDNT WANT f 1 TO BE INCON- I VENIENCED.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 541 8  -  He clears immigration at Changi Airport, then. By Amtt Jain amitjain@sph. com.sg HE was found unconscious at Changi Airport and only woke up three days later at the Changi General Hospital. Now, three months later, he doesn't want to go home though his tourist
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    • 749 9  -  Yet shelter director loves her like his own INSIDE A GIRLS' HOME: Part 2 By Genevieve Jiang #geneviev@sph.com.sg SHE is a child with a chequered past. At the tender age of 10, she was already a heavy smoker. She lied to her teachers
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    • 140 9 Offenders return to homes again again NOT all young offenders are as fortunate as Marilyn. For a quarter of all young offenders arrested last year, or about 1,200 youths, it wasn't their first time in a girls' or boys' home. In all, the police arrested 4,658 people aged between 7
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    • 487 10 MARILYN never knew her father. When she was a month old, her father, a Malaysian, left her mother and her. He was deported after being caught for working illegally here. Marilyn's mother, Madam Lim (we're not identifying the mum to protect Marilyn's
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  • Article, Illustration
    420 11 WORLD Wire services. HE'S survived a poisoning attempt as well as a rigged election. Now, liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko looks like he will win the re-run of Ukraine's presidential election in what his opponents have termed an "orange coup". With the vote counted in just over 10
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  • NEWS
    • 498 12 Family picnic in Australia turns tragic as 4 drown THEY were laughing, eating and relaxing by the rocks. Then tragedy struck. Twelve-year-old Marina Mir lost her footing on the slippery rocks and fell into the MacKenzie Falls rockpool in western Victoria at about 2.30pm. Her family
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    • 226 12 A SINGAPOREAN died after the car he was driving went out of control and plunged into Sungai Klang in Kuala Lumpur on Christmas Day. Mr Peter Carl Justiman Schubert, 46, fell in with the Proton Wira and is believed to have
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    • 957 13  -  S'Pore Heart Foundation's Affairs Of The Heart Charity Show By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph.com.sg LIGHT breathing movements and no dinner were in order for Sharon Au and colleagues Le Yao and Dai Qianyun last night. The threesome performed what was arguably one of
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    • 607 14  -  But singing duo JS still make music together, even though the siblings live apart By Chang May Choon changmc@sph. com.sg LIKE most siblings, Taiwan's brother-sister pop duo, JS, have had their fair share of fights. So many that Justin Chen, 27, and his sister,
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    • 768 15  -  Blended juice is the drink of choice for army boy picked as Singapore's martinidrinking James Bond in TV contest By Sylvia Toh Paik Chop #tnp@sph.com.sg "BOND prepared a torpedo, gripped the joystick and placed his thumb on the trigger. Then he saw something bright out off the
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    • 217 16 WHAT'S going on with Lindsay Lohan (left) and former love Wilmer Valderrama? v The couple split up last month after a < nine-month relationship, 18-year-old >' actress recently shunned a fashion J. party to have an intimate the That '70s Show star, and now they're rumoured
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    • 125 16 BRITNEY Spears took dog pampering to a whole new level when she recently treated her pet chihuahua to a US$lBO ($295) steak and insulted a top chef in the process. The 23-year-old pop princess took her tiny dog, Bitbit, to the exclusive Picasso restaurant at
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    • 105 16 HOLLYWOOD actor George Clooney has become the latest subject of engagement reports. His British model-presenter girlfriend Lisa Snowdon (with him, left) was photographed wearing a glittering new ring on her ring finger after visiting him in Los Angeles. Clooney, 43, and Snowdon, 32, have been dating
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    • 129 17 TROUBLED singer Courtney Love (left) is planning to pay off her mounting legal debts by telling her life story in a forthcoming book. She has had an eventftd year, during which she battled heroin addiction, lost custody of her 12-year-old daughter, was arrested
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    • 104 17 COULD Buddhism overtake Kabbalah and Scientology as the new celebrity religion? The Lord Of The Rings heart-throb Orlando Bloom (above), for one, has taken his first steps to faith, after attending an hour-long commitment ceremony with 60 other devotees at the UK-based headquarters of Buddhist group
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    • 667 18 TO strip or not to strip, that was the question for Korean hunk Kwon Sang Woo. Obviously he has the washboard abs and sculpted biceps to inspire gasps and drool and he is not stingy in flaunting them in topless scenes. But when filming
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    • 96 18 NANAKO Matsushima (right) has been busy dieting and frequenting a slimming salon to j shed the weight she gained after childbirth. Next month, she stars in the sequel to 24 Hour Emergency Ward, at an astounding fee of 3 million yen ($47,000) per episode reportedly the highest among Japanese actresses.
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    • 289 19 age 24 PRIME-TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Monday, December 27,2004 mi 1 Less gore, worker find themselves trapped brakes and no driver. Stars Jon en@sph.com.sg M* 9 Voight, Rebecca De Mornay. 1- xI Icdlo s S7lspm group of Australian war veterans who were humans resembHng ancient h n^'lB held captive as
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    • 663 20 HE NEW PAPER/Monday, December 27,2004 PRIME TIME TV Pa e2J 6 6.00: Grounded 5.00: American 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.00: In Our 6.oo:Masak 6.02: Partners In 6.00: 6.00: The For Life Idol 3—II Today (News) House Apa?— Progress Gensomaden Simpsons nm 6.30: In The Finalist/American (Preschool) Qualifying 6.32: Amazing Saiyuki
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    • 535 24  -  By Ian Tan ta nyli i @sph.com.sg LAST week I wrote a primer on reading tech reviews, since so many people are telling us different things on what is good to buy. Today, I will suggest how you can pick out the right
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  • RACING
    • 165 38  -  MARC TAN UNTOUCHABLE for the fourth year in a row. That's champion Malaysian jockey Azhar Ismail for you. With the Penang Turf Club meeting bringing the curtains down on another season yesterday, the 41-year-old Azhar was top of the heap once again. With 59 winners
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    • 767 38 3 IMPERIAL CROSS 55 (15-6) BWoodworth (5) 1 1 1 (450) 2 IDEAL SKY 55 (9-6) SJohn (1) 3 4 2 (501) 5 PINK MARTINI 53.5 c 52 (22-6) 'S Kumar (6) 4 3 3 (412) Winning stable: Apache. Trainer: Peter Tennent. Margins: 1
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    • 307 38  -  By Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg Lightweights continued their dominance of the Yan Di Pertua Negeri Gold Cup for the eighth consecutive year as Baby Star, Solo Venture and Royal Captain filled the top three slots in the RMI.3 million ($583,000) Malaysian Group 1 classic over
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    • 203 39 Reuters. FAVOURITE Zenno Rob Roy created a slice of history yesterday, becoming only the second horse to win the Emperor's Cup, Japan Cup and Arima Kinen in the same year. Jockey Olivier Peslier won a record third successive title in the Arima
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    • 95 39 TOP OF THE HEAP: Trainer Marinus van Breukelen (right) retains his crown and will have plenty to celebrate on his 53rd birthday tomorrow. 1st 2nd 3rd M Breukelen 51 27 48 R Lines 34 31 35 J Brink 27 16 24 B Brogan
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    • 91 39 TOP OF THE HEAP: Jockey Azhar Ismail (right) retains his crown, making it his fourth success in as many years on the Malaysian circuit. 1st 2nd 3rd lAzhar 59 60 30 YFLeong 33 19 26 ISaifudin 31 32 37 M Wepner 29 25 31
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    • 589 39 10 GOLDEN DRAGON 119 (46-11) DWhyte (2) 1 8 MAXIMUM JOY 122 (33-8) GMosse (9) 2 2 FAIRPLAY131 (121-23) E Saint-Martin (4) 3 Trainer: DE Ferraris. Margins: bVt, nk. Time: Imin 09.5 sec. Forecast: $46. Place forecast: $37 (Nos.
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    • 127 39 MARC TAN While South African jockey Martin Wepnerwas busy steering Baby Star to victory in the Penang Governor's Gold Cup yesterday, his compatriots were having a field day in Hong Kong. In the 10-race card at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon, when betting was available on the Singapore totalisator,
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  • SPORTS
    • 706 40 t Tfdcr Cup 2004 The Singapore Lions take on Myanmar in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Tiger Cup in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. GARY KOH meets three young players who were thrown into the deep end of first-team action in the group stages
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    • 923 41 COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP AFP. CHAMPIONSHIP front-runners Ipswich and Wigan were left punch-drunk on Boxing Day in the charge to reach the English Premiership. Leaders Ipswich beat second-placed Wigan 2-1 last Tuesday to return to the top of the table but were stung 3-1 at FA Cup runners-up
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    • 447 41 SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE Yesterday Hearts 0 Celtic 2 Today Aberdeen v Inverness Dundee United v Hibernian Dunfermline v Livingston Kilmarnock v Dundee Rangers v Motherwell AFP. CELTIC secured their place at the top of the Scottish Premier League at the end of 2004 with a
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    • 335 42 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN PA Sport. DAVID Beckham is confident Real Madrid can put a disappointing start to the season behind them when the Primera Liga restarts on Wednesday. Real have already suffered five league defeats and will start the new year 13 points adrift of
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    • 216 42  -  EXCLUSIVE STAR ftr HENRIK LARSSON BARCELONA OBVIOUSLY, it's great for Barcelona to be going into the winter break with such a big lead at the top of the league. Everyone at the club has worked very hard to get the team to where it is.
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    • 296 42 PA Sport. FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho is determined to retain his crown next December. But before doing so, he wants to help his club side Barcelona win many trophies. The Brazilian World Cup winner made it clear he has big plans for
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    • EPL MONDAY MAN
      • 175 43 ARSENAL vFULHAM (IX2: Arsenal 1/2: Arsenal TG: 2 HT/FT: H—H) Brian: 1x2,1/2 Goal, HT—FT Edwin: 1x2,1/2 Goal, HT—FT Tay: 1x2,1/2 Goal, HT—FT BIRMINGHAM v BOKO (B'ham, B'ham, 2, H—H) Brian: 1/2 Goal.TG Edwin: TG Tay: TG BLACKBURN v NEWCASTLE (Draw, B'bum, 4, A—H) Brian: 1x2,1/2 Goal
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      • 520 43  -  BOXING DAY BETTING REVIEW By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com.sg Sometimes it pays to hold off marking your betting slips until late. Sure, sometimes you get better odds when you lay off your wagers early. But, most times, having
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      • WAGE WARS
        • 384 44 HIS may be the richest club in the world, but Manchester United have made it clear to skipper Roy Keane that they're not willing to pay him any more if he wants to extend his working life there. Under the new pay policy
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        • 310 44 PA Sport. UNITED'S most decorated player Ryan Giggs is another victim of Man U's tight-fisted pay policy. The club have told Giggs they want him to stay, but that they will not give him a wage raise or break policy to add an extra
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        • 308 44 VIEIAR: PA Sport. PATRICK Vieira has 2V2 years left on his existing Arsenal contract, but manager Arsene Wenger is in no hurry to agree to new terms. That's because he has more pressing situations to address Edu, Lauren, Sol Campbell and Jermaine Pennant will all be
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      • 875 45  -  By Paul Walker SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Spot KEVIN KEEGANdefended Robbie Fowler for his controversial goal celebrations and condemned the red card decision that saw substitute Christian Negouai sent off as Manchester City crashed to third-placed Everton. Fowler, who has been involved in incidents of taunting
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      • 375 46  -  By, Jim van Wijk SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TOTTENHAM'S "revival under Martin Jol continued as they chalked up a fifth straight win in the Premiership over struggling Norwich at Carrow Road. The Canaries, battling to keep themselves out of the relegation zone, dominated the game
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      • 459 46  -  Round-up By Seb James SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport NEWCASTLE earned a point against Blackburn, as boss Graeme Soilness returned to Ewood Park for the first time since walking out on the club to join the Magpies at St James' Park. Kieron Dyer put the
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      • 386 47 BIRMINGHAM 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 0 PA Sport. Birmingham manager Steve Bruce admitted David Dunn's latest hamstring injury took the gloss off his side's 2-0 win over lacklustre Middlesbrough last night. Dunn produced an inspired display but his injury problems struck again early in the second half when
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      • 75 47 Yes, we had a goal disallowed early on which I feel should have stood, but that's no excuse. If we've got aspirations as to where we want to be, and people are talking about Champions League, you can't afford off days like this. We said to the
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      • 321 47 CRYSTAL PALACE 0 PORTSMOUTH 1 PA Sport. LINVOY Primus scored his first Premiership goal to secure a "massive" Boxing Day victory for Portsmouth. Primus' header after 63 minutes was the knockout blow for a Palace side who did not lack endeavour but were let down by their
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      • 537 48 MAN UTD 2 (Ryan Giggs 10th min, Paul Scholes 89) BOLTON 0 It was a virtuoso performance from veteran Ryan Giggs, TNP soccer analyst TOHARIPAIJAN tells GARYKOH NO Ruud van Nistelrooy. No Louis Saha. Paul Scholes on the bench. With players of such calibre unavailable, any manager
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      • 241 48 PA Sport. With Louis Saha out until the middle of January and Ruud van Nistelrooy sidelined for even longer, Sir Alex Ferguson can do without having Rooney sidelined as well. At least if the worst does materialise, the Scot knows he can call on old stagers
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      • 166 48 PA Sport. BOLTON are also consistent just now, although that is not good news for Allardyce and his team, who slumped to their fifth straight league defeat. The visitors carved out only one meaningful opportunity, which Ivan Campo wasted and not even the return of
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      • 257 48 AFP. Ryan Giggs's second league goal of the season offered a timely reminder to Sir Alex Ferguson of his value to the club as Manchester United kept within touching distance of Chelsea and Arsenal in a 2-0 victory over Bolton at Old Trafford here Sunday. The
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      • 286 49 ARSENAL 2 (Thierry Henry 12th min, Robert Pires 71) FULHAM 0 PA Sport. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger watched his side dispose of Fulham and insisted he had no interest in Chelsea's clash with Aston Villa. "What is important for us is to focus on ourselves
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      • 584 49  -  TV VIEW ERNEST LUIS npsportsQsph.com.sg INDIVIDUAL inconsistency could be a reason why Arsenal aren't firing perfectly recently in the English Premiership. This argument is based on comparison to their high-scoring standards set during last season's fine championship-winning run. Yes, their 2-0 win over
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      • 454 50 CHELSEA 1 (Damien Duff 30th min) ASTON VILLA 0 PA Sport. CHELSEA are raring to go all the way for the Premiership title. Manager Jose Mourinho sees a lust for teamwork and felt his side had come through a stern test of their title credentials after edging
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      • 111 50 PA Sport. CHELSEA stars Damien Duff and John Terry admit they are enjoying leading the Premiership. They are not feeling the pressure of their position. "We are loving it at the top, it is the place everyone wants to be and we're not feeling the pressure," said
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      • 174 51 WEST BROM 0 LIVERPOOL 5 (John Arne Riise 17th min, 83, Florent Sinama-Pongolle 51, Steven Gerrard 56, Luis Garcia 89) Crowd: 27,533 The Reds rampaged to one of their biggest away wins in recent years, thanks to the formidable wing-play of converted Norwegian defender John Arne Riise...
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      • 245 52 PA Sport. STEVEN Gerrard enjoyed the luxury of putting his feet up early after inspiring Liverpool's romp over 10-man West Brom at The Hawthorns early this morning. The inspirational captain will play an essential role in his side's busy festive programme which could go a long
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      • 721 52 PA Sport. Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez hailed only his side's second away win in the Premiership as a major confidence boost in their fight for another top-four finish. Benitez's men got their hectic festive programme off to a flyer by crushing West Brom 5-0
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      • 94 52 ARSENAL 2 Thierry Henry 12th min, Robert Pires 71 FULHAMO BIRMINGHAM 2 Clinton Morrison 10, Emile Heskey 45 BOROO BLACKBURN 2 Paul Dickov 26, Andy Todd 54 NEWCASTLE 2 Kieron Dyer 6, Laurent Robert 34 CHELSEA 1 Damien Duff3o VILLA 0 EVERIDN2 Tim Cahill 22, Marcus Bent 63
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    • Article, Illustration
      535 53  -  By BRIAN MILLER WHAT'S with Wayne Rooney? Has the young guy gone bonkers? And what's with Sir Alex Ferguson? Is the old man losing touch with right and wrong? Sure, yesterday was Boxing Day. But it didn't by any stretch of the imagination give Rooney the right to
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    • 116 52 \awm EPL PALACE v PORTSMOUTH Delayed, Ch 24,8pm, tonight SAINTS v CHARLTON Delayed, Ch 23,8.30pm, tonight BIRMINGHAM v BORO Delayed, Ch 24,10pm, tonight NORWICH v TOTTENHAM Delayed, Ch 23,10.30pm, tonight PORTSMOUTH v CHELSEA Ch 23,10.55pm, tomorrow BOLTON v BLACKBURN Ch 24,10.55pm, tomorrow TOTTENHAM v PALACE Delayed, Ch 23, lam, Wednesday
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