The New Paper, 20 February 2005

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    • 1099 2  -  The door's always closed. Windows are shut and taped down. Illegal gaming centres, which used to pose as football dubs, are now... BY THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY TEAM REMEMBER the gambling dens inside football clubs? They're back. Instead of operating around Geylang, where such clubs
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    • 126 3 THE New Paper broke the news in May 2001 about how some clubs were a front for illegal gambling activities. These clubs were rampant in areas like Geylang and Balestier. Easy membership meant that school children could also easily access the clubs' facilities. Repeated warnings by
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    • 824 4  -  EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg HE cut a forlorn figure at the Boat Quay bar. Tommy (not his real name) was downing his happy hour beer. That's all he can afford these days, he says, because he has fallen into the trap of the Internet bookie. A manager at an
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    • 268 4 why we went online indon bookie THE bookie has always kept pace with technology. That's what one of Asia's biggest bookies, based in Indonesia, told The New Paper on Sunday about the Tiger Cup a few weeks ago. "In the old days, we used to call each other on the
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    • 408 5  -  TELL ON TEACHER Student allecjes her teacher is 'very naught/. He allegedly confesses after investigation He is fired and later turns himself in to police ChangMay Choon changmc@ sph.com.sg AndreYeo andrey@ sph.com.sg A CENTRE for intellectually disabled students has sacked
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    • 419 6 TELL ON OTHERS AN openly gay teacher was warned by the police in September 2003 for committing an act of gross indecency with another man. It happened at a public staircase landing of a private block of flats in
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    • 966 6  -  TELL? Scenario 1: A woman teacher performs oral sex on a man in public and is arrested. Should the police tell the school? NO Said Mr De Souza: "It does not mean if she did it with her boyfriend or her married lover, she would
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    • 68 7 A POLICE spokesman told The New Paper on Sunday: "The police usually do not inform employers of past offences committed by job applicants. "In the case where a man was arrested for committing an act of gross indecency with another male, it was deemed necessary
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    • 215 7 THE principal for The Centre for Exceptional Children said she's grateful to the police for telling on Mr Paxil Fernandez. Mrs Queenie Tan, 50, acknowledged that being a homosexual (which he is open about) doesn't make him a paedophile. She said: "Not all gays
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    • 528 8  -  LEAP OF FAITHS AndreYeo andrey@sph.com.sg WHEN she dances the bhangra at weddings, everyone stares at her. When she takes the bus, the MRT or goes shopping, heads turn. And when she met her future parents-in-law for the first time a few years ago, they were
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    • 467 9 HE PRAYS AT BUDDHIST HINDU TEMPLES AT night, he packs and unloads crates of fruits and vegetables at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre. And just hours after knocking off from work, he's at the Singapore Buddhist Lodge in the River Valley Road area cooking for devotees there and cleaning the
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    • 376 10  -  LEAP OF FAITHS Andre Yeo andrey@sph. com .sg MANY questions and a burning desire to understand the meaning of life. Mr Terence Kenneth John Nunis (right) went through a soul-searching period as he wondered if he was happy. That was when he found Islam
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    • 447 10 WHEN Father Robertus Sarwiseso (left) first arrived in Singapore last November, he had a problem. He had to constantly decline invitations by well-meaning Catholics to eat with them. It's normal for the Catholic community to welcome newly-assigned priests over meals, and many do it
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      739 12 The Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) will meet Singapore's growing sewerage needs in the long run. Infographic journalists LEE HUP KHENG and KELVIN CHAN take a peek underground to check out the massive tunnelling works that run from Kranji to Changi FLUSH your toilet, and it will empty
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    • 408 14 SLICE OF S'PORE LIFE LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts dance students took four months to prepare for last I night's Chingay at Orchard Road. DOMINIC YING was there for the final stretch ALOTOF HARD WORK GOES INTO FOUR months of preparation for a two-minute dance routine.
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    • 367 16 Last w$ek, columnist Sylvia Toll pondered the worthiness of Singapore's culture. Four Singaporeans tell Fawziah Selamat what they think should be preserved WHAT IS TRULY S'POREAN POP CULTURE?/ Page 30 Tlie New Paper on Sunday, Feb 13 Food "Singapore's food, such as char kway teow, laksa and
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  • news
    • 658 18  -  Murdered in her boutique near KL, did her... Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg ALL those who knew her described her as a "stunning beauty". Ms Goh Lee Feng's brutal murder stabbed seven times in her upmarket boutique in broad daylight is the latest in which
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      116 19 Malaysian-born US resident Canny Ong (above), 28, was abducted from a carpark, raped and strangled to death in June 2003. Cleaner Ahmad Najib Aris, 27, is on trial for her murder. Marketing executive Noritta Samsudin, 22, was found naked, hands and feet bound, in her upmarket condo in
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    • 501 19 JUST a mere millionaire? Forget about stepping into this luxury shop. The De Luxe Alliance, a worldwide group of luxury goods and services companies, plans to open a store in Moscow with the ultimate cachet:
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      • 54 20 I don't think there's ever been a tragedy that affected the heartbeat of the American people as much as this tsunami has done. Former US president George Bush Sr in the shattered village of Ban Nam Khem in Thailand during a tour of tsunami-affected countries with fellow former
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      • 103 20 CAN you tell if a man's a likely criminal from his handwriting? Jakarta police seem to think so. They plan to analyse the handwriting of each person applying for a gun licence. Police also plan to use psychiatric evaluations to decide whether a gun owner poses a danger
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      • 131 20 CHILLI powder from India is causing quite a stir in the UK A total of359 food products have been taken off shop shelves in the UK after they were found to be contaminated with an illegal food dye Sudan I dye. The dye is linked to
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      • 78 20 US PRESIDENT George Bush has refused to rule out a military strike against Iran's nuclear programme. But he denied it was likely to happen anytime soon. "Listen, first of all, you never want a president to say 'never'. But military action is certainly not
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        30 20 A second head from a 10-month-old girl in an operation on Saturday. Manar Maged was in stable condition after Like that girl, Manar's twin had developed pictures reuters
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      • 213 20 THE Education Ministry is revamping the curriculum to make it more convenient for students to learn Malay as a third language. Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday the number of Secondary 1 students taking Malay as a third language has more than
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      • 193 20 THE Society for the Physically Disabled has revamped its education programme to better help its students. Launching the programme, Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen yesterday commended the society. With the revamp, the programme now has education bursary and special assistance schemes, a learning and development
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      • 56 20 A STRIP club in Boise, Idaho, has found an artful way to prance past a city law that bans full nudity. It charges customers US$15 (about $25) for a sketch pad and a pencil. The nude show then becomes an art class. The law doesn't ban nudity in shows
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    • 634 22  -  THE S'PORE MAN: PRIZE CATCH Continued from previous page Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sgi Six months ago, Miss Xu and her boyfriend brought up the question of marriage. And, like a true blue Singaporean, her boyfriend proposed that they should buy a flat first. Miss Xu said with
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    • 562 23  -  THE S'PORE MAN: LONGKANG FISH FawziahSelamat fawziahs@sph.com.sg THE Singapore man romantic? You must be joking. Practical and prudent? Okay, if that's what you want to call it. (We prefer "boring".) In other words: If foreign women want the Singapore man, they can have him. At least,
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    • 594 24  -  The S'pore man fights back Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg SO maybe our lists of why the Singapore Man sucks or scores are highly unproven, more error-prone than George Bush's English essay prior to a spell-check. But that doesn't mean they can't shed light on some
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    • 728 25  -  She does everything her employers tell her not TO, BUT INSISTS SHE IS NOT BAD SHE IS NOT DISLOYAL, DOES NOT STEAL AND DOES NOT SHIRK WORK Joyce Lim joycel@ sph.com.sg HERE's a maid who's broken every rule in the house she's working in. Her
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    • 617 26  -  AnnetteTan tnp@sph.com.sg VALENTINE'S Day last week made me realise that I suffer from couple's guilt. You see, I was once a swinging single and I remember well the kaypohs who would ask what negative traits I harboured that rendered me incapable of
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    • 782 26 ON my date with Aby, Bar None's lead vocalist, I demanded that he take his shirt off and get down on the floor. The highlight was his demonstration of capoeira, a Brazilian form of martial arts. Seems breakdancing has its origins there. He's the frontman
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    • 20 27 Singapore woman's struggle to become first Asian woman to sail solo from France to Brazil/ Page 51-54
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    • 442 27  -  ggh RachelRaebum tnp@sph.com.sg VISIT East Coast beach on any given weekend and it will be hustling and bustling with activity. The place is popular with people of all ages families, teenagers, lovers and pet-owners. So much has changed over the years. When I
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    • 548 28  -  EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg THERE'S an impression among some readers that I write only about rubbish in this column. That's rubbish. Every week, this column deals with serious issues and educates people on what happens in the world and our country. This week's column, for instance,
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    • 479 28  -  JonathanLim tnp@sph.com.sg GOOD evening! For those of you who have just joined us, welcome to the tram tour of the True Singapore Night Safari! We have half a ride to go, and this time we'll be heading into the dark savage regions of
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    • 576 29  -  JaniceSeah tnp@sph.com.sg IN a week's time I, with all other West Australians, will be voting on an issue that the rest of the civilised world seems to have settled millions of years ago the question on whether retail shops should be allowed to open past
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    • 628 32  -  Doctor Love wt m Dr WeiSiangYu tnp@sph.com.sg BALESTIER couple Goh and Sharon had always been ready for fun and had an experimental element in their sex lives that added a spark to their 13-year-old marriage. Sharon said: "Even now we are head-over-heels in
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  • tech
    • 562 36  -  on Sunday All the latest tech news Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg THE first generation of handsets for the high-speed 3G networks were usually large, clunky and great battery drainers. Things are looking up, as the new generation of handsets on display at the 3GSM World Congress 2005
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    • 498 38 GOING, GOING, GONE... LAT-WP. Freshman Max Bender uses the phone plugged into the wall of his American University dorm room so rarely that he has forgotten it is there. So from the next school year, AU students conditioned to handphones will find few of those
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  • racing
    • 308 46  -  DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg GET off to an early winning start with Sapphire Racer in Race 2 at Kranji this afternoon. The representative from the Sapphire Racing Trust (SRT) looks hard to beat and should go one better on his narrow second to impressive first-up winner Thunder Heart three
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      375 46 Racing Editor Marc Tan Deputy Racing Editor Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Mystery tipster 9 6 Great Hero 10 Very Funny Man 2 Lim's Kingdom 10 Very Funny Man 7 Private Stripes 2 Lim's Kingdom 1 10 Very Funny Man 7 Private Stripes 4 Brooksy 3 Buffy
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    • 59 46 I SAPPHIRE RACER *.SV-. 3 r (Race 2 No. 1) This Piccolo youngster richly deserves to was a trifle unlucky by Thunder Heart over today's trip. A similar effort this afternoon will be more than enough to earn him the honours against a very weak field. Get ready
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    • 60 46 RACE 1: Private Stripes. RACE 3: Chi, Star Spur, Yippee Blue Dill. RACE 4: Pacific Star. RACE 5: Phil Good, Xplosive Strike. RACE 6: Ocean Princess, Good Benefit. RACE 7: Sky Luck, Signature Spirit, Starmix. RACE 8: Izamaman, Much Coveted, Wasabe, North Flight. RACE 9: Breed To Victory, Music
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    • 2264 47 Race 1 MfPfP 1 *****8 ALLEZ SHEIK 58.5 (40) E Wilkinson 8 (4aq Baertschiger-Auric) No worthwhile form although his trackwork suggests he has made some headway. 2 *****UM'S KINGDOM 58 (39) KBSoo 3 (5nzg Meagher-Lim's) Resuming; looks fairly well and
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    • 2018 48 RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD Joy of winning: Soo Khoon Beng saluting the crowd as he steers the John Meaghertrained Lim's Ransom, the second leg of a treble for the champion local jockey, to victory in Race 8 at Kranji yesterday. His other winners Flawless Diamond
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    • 277 49  -  DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg FORMER champion trainer Charles Leek fired a warning to his rivals with a brilliant four-bagger at Kranji yesterday. Following an indifferent season last year, the 2003 champion was back in his element, sweeping four of the final six races at stake. First off
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    • 1100 50 RACE 1: M Monteriso replaced M Pay on CHARDONAY as the latter was certified unwell. CHESS MASTER became fractious after being loaded into the barriers, reared and momentarily got his hind-leg caught in the back gate. He was taken out, examined by the
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  • sports
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      404 51  -  My dose call with the killer Lim Han Ming npsports@sph.com.sg IF fate had it, Elaine Chua might have been caught in the killer tsunami waves that hit Phuket, Thailand, on Dec 26 last year. The 26-year-old sailor had just finished racing in the King's Cup on Dec 12 and
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    • 191 51 IDEALLY, Elaine Chua would love to train full-time for the Mini Transat campaign. But that is not possible owing to the lack of sponsorship funds. To make ends meet, she plans to work and train at the same time in Europe. She said: "111 have to get
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    • 75 51 HERTS your chance to support Elaine Chua in her Mini Transat campaign. To raise money for her campaign, she is selling her Mini Transat T-shirt at $35 each. They are on sale at the reception counter at her home chib—The Republic of Singapore Yacht
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    • 970 52  -  The more races I do, the better I become. But that's provided I have the money for the entry fees, food, accommodation, insurance and crew fees. It would be great if I can get someone who has done the Mini Transat before to train me. If
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    • 86 53 Feb 19: Going back to Spain March: Refitting and training April: Taking part in Villefranche Su Mer —a 980-nautical mile race from south coast of France to Antibes, an island off Italy May: Returning to Barcelona to chalk up 1,000 nautical miles to qualify for Mini
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    • 346 54 IF you were at Chihatown on the night of Feb 2, you might have caught a glimpse of the boat which will carry sailor Elaine Chua's dreams in the historic Mini Transat campaign in September. The 21-foot beauty by the name of "Feng" (wind in Mandarin)
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      • 535 56 NISSAN OPEN: LOS ANGELES Wire Services. THE pace at this week's Nissan Open has all but mirrored the standstill on the nearby Santa Monica Freeway. Because when it rains in Los Angeles everything gets backed up for four hours, including golf tournaments. What
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      • 89 56 133 —Chad Campbell 68-65 136—Robert Allenby 69-67 137 —Luke Donald 66-71, Stephen Leaney 70-67, Rocco Mediate 70-67 138—Michael Allen 68-70, Mark Brooks 7068, Angel Cabrera 69-69, Brett Quigley 66-72 139—Tim Clark 7069 140 —Alexander Cejka 70-70, Jose Maria Olazabal 68-72, Mike Weir 67-73 141 Nick Price 70-71 142 —Stuart
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      • 355 57 CARLSBERG MALAYSIAN OPEN Reuters. THAILAND'S Thongchai Jaidee is on target to retain his Malaysian Open title after opening up a six-stroke lead yesterday. The 34-year-old shot seven birdies and two bogeys for a third round score of five-under-par-67 to finish on 19 under. India's Joyti Randhawa
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      • 75 57 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN OPEN AFP AUSTRALIA'S Steven Bowditch withstood an attack of nerves to take a three-shot lead into the final round of the Jacob's Creek Open at Royal Adelaide yesterday. His par round of 72 including six bogeys, four birdies and an eagle kept him at 10
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      1454 59  -  The American Richard WE continue our series of top bosses in Singapore who have a passion for sports to go along with success in their profession. This week, WANG MENG MENG meets CHRIS BORCH, executive director and president of Micro-Mechanics Holdings, who somehow manages to squeeze basketball, running and
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    • 616 60  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg THEY are new to the S-League. They operate on a tight budget compared to traditional S-League powerhouses like Tampines Rovers and Home United. So, what chance of them challenging for major honours in their debut season? Unlikely. Modest, at best. Yet, Paya Lebar
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    • 166 60 MIZUNO scored a coup of sorts when they secured a five-year official footwear sponsor partnership with Pablo Aimar (right), who plays for Argentina and Spanish club Valencia. Also on Mizuno's books are Aimar's compatriot at Inter-Milan, Javier Zanetti, and Newcastle United's Dutch forward Patrick Kluivert.
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    • 145 60 THE Goh brothers, George, Joe and Steven, hail from Air Panas in Negri Sembilan, Malaysia. In 1991, they founded their own retail-chain store World of Sports in Singapore. The chain expanded into Malaysia a year later. In 2000, they got caught up in the dotcom hype and
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    • FA CUP SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH PREVIEW
      • 502 61 SPURS v FOREST PA Sport. MARTIN Jol insisted Tottenham's FA Cup pedigree will count for nothing when Nottingham Forest visit White Hart Lane today. The Spurs head coach has decided against inviting some of the club's FA Cup legends to regale his squad with great tales
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      • 466 62 NEWCASTLE v CHELSEA JOSE Mourinho (right) is already a card-carrying member in football's Millionaires Club. But should he deliver all "four goals" this season, his bank balance will be inflated by a further £4.2 million ($l3. lm). That is the assurance given him by club owner Roman
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      • 311 62 PA Sport. rJOSE Mourinho is poised to field a weakened side in the FA Cup at Newcastle today. And his reason: Chelsea are not "supermen". Mourinho made it clear that the fixture planners and television schedulers are giving English clubs little chance of winning Europe's biggest prize as
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      • 108 62 PA Sport. MANAGERS have been given the green light to send on substitutes with tactical notes to hand to team-mates. Jose Mourinho may have started a new trend with his messaging system to players during games. In the recent clash at Everton, Mourinho sent on
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    • 669 63  -  FA CUP SUNDAY CHEERS TEXT: By BRIAN MILLER MATCH 0406: 1 BURNLEY v BLACKBURN li^SSS' *2® s sBnfiB I 1X2 BURNLEY v3.2(j DRAW 3.15 3 15 BLACKBURN 2.00 2.00 &SI <40M 1/2 GOAL BURNL£Y(*11«) BLACKBURN (-1 1/2) 3 75 TOTAL GOAL MOfl ■Hm m IME El TEAM UPDATE: Blackburn
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      • 441 64 ARSENAL 1 (Robert Pires 78th min) SHEFFIELD UTD 1 (Andy Gray 90 penalty) THE BERGKAMP SENDING-OFF LIM HAN MING talks to soccer analyst TOHARIPAUAN THE referee was right to send Dennis Bergkamp off. You could see that the Dutch striker was trying to take the
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      • 378 64  -  By Suresh Nair npsports@sph. com.sg ITS tricky trying to make sense of Dennis Bergkamp's red card. Sorry? Sensational? Stupid? Whichever way you look at referee Neale Barry's quick-draw decision at Highbury, he seems to have been desperate in wanting to quickly restore order to a
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      • 255 65 ARSENAL 1 SHEFFIELD UTD 1 Wire Services. (right) said his club would appeal against the red card. "Dennis didn't hit, he didn't push him," Wenger told Arsenal's website. "I feel we had to face a situation that was difficult in the seconc but I'm quite happy because
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      • 210 65 REST OF THE ACTION Reuters. CHARLTON Athletic were booted out of the FA Cup no thanks to Dion Dublin's injury-time goal. The last-gasp 2-1 match-winner from the former England striker came as a shock for Coca-Cola Championship club Leicester City, who were not given a chance
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        161 66 ARSENAL 1 (Robert Pi res 78th min) SHEFFIELD UTD 1 (Andy Gray 90 penalty) THE BERGKAMP SENDING-OFF IT ALL started in the 33rd minute when Arsenal captain Dennis Bergkamp was shoved in the back by Danny Cullip. Bergkamp was not happy that referee Neale Barry played the advantage.
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      • 732 67  -  LimHan Ming npsports@ sph.com.sg ALL week long, Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock was clamouring for a nonPremiership referee to handle his team's FA Cup clash against Arsenal. The outspoken manager did not get his wish yesterday. The referee appointed for the fifth-round tie at Highbury
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    • 82 68 inc. new rwrm uw auiiwii repruary rage oo ARSENAL 1 (Robert Pires 78th min) SHEFFIELD UTD 1 (Andy Gray 90 penalty) RED FOR WHOM? r*l Dennis Bergkamp or referee Neale Barry? I off the dramatic FA Cup fifth-round match. I Arsenal's Dutchman is sent off for 1 Did the referee
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