The New Paper, 15 June 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • SUN SPORTS
    • UEFA EURO 2008
      • 464 2  -  That's what the younq Spaniards learnt against Sweden this morning MORNING LATEST Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg SPAIN. Let's look at its famous tags. World-class team. Hot early EurooB favourite. But a historical choker? Well, for 90 minutes this morning, there was more than a sneaking suspicion
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      • 350 4 EUROPEAN TV NETWORKS STRUGGLE TO COMPETE WITH EUROOB EUROOB is a ratings juggernaut in Europe regularly getting more than 50 per cent of the market share of broadcasting in countries taking part in the soccer tournament. 1 But it might be too much of a
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  • SUN NEWS
    • M'SIAN BANNED HERE FOR 6 MONTHS
      • 907 6  -  /Iyiz±\/* *****J 0 1L 0 11W11* UT^l mKKHKKM Crystal Chan crystalc@sph.com.sg THE car in front of you is moving so slowly at the immigration checkpoint in Singapore. Impatient, you blare your horn. Bad mistake. That can get you a fine or even three months
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      • 292 7 MOTORISTS may say it's harsh, but we disagree. This is what several Causeway View residents feel about the ICA's stance against honking. One of them, Mr Balan, who serves on the Residents' Committee (RC) in his neighbourhood, said: "From my flat on the 11th floor, I
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    • 912 8  -  PEEPING TOMS RISK LIFE TO WATCH COUPLES MAKE OUT REPORT AND PICTURES Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.comsg THE silhouette of the man was hard to spot against the rocky slope at Bukit Gombak's Little Guilin. Yet his movements gave him away. Sitting precariously near the
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    • 548 9  - A LOUD THUMP VIBRATIONS, THEN... CRASHES INTO GARDEN The 20m-tall tree, falls from across the road, destroys part of garden. No one hurt Hcrfy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg ON most weekends, the Quah family of five children would play soccer or badminton in their garden. But yesterday afternoon, most of the family
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    • 59 10 Get the latest match reports every day in our... I Euro NOON Editions I jF" *00 ■bL r r «<®7 \j. I ,-i I >V'v I >1 <n Y I 7 I 'morning editions I Get the usual top news entertainment reports I They will also carry some of the
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 930 11 SELETAR AIRBASE REDEVELOPMENT More than 150 of the colonial houses at Seletar Airbase will make way for the new aerospace park. SHREE ANN MATHAVAN talks to residents who will have to move out soon
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    • 86 12 Of the 378 houses at Seletar Airbase, 174 will be demolished to make way for the 300 ha Seletar Aerospace Park. Affected residents have till year end to move out. The remaining 204 colonial houses will not be demolished. •However, of these, only 131
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    • 942 13  -  She draws stares with her laptop thick wads of cash but... Woman dad help private taxi owners manage their vehicles Maureen Koh maurernktQsph.comsg SHE sits in a coffee shop with a laptop, receiving $50 and $10 notes from a steady line of men. Their
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    • 374 13 HER ageing husband's health was deteriorating and there were medical bills to pay. She had not worked for most of her life and her three sons each had their own family commitments In the end, it was Mr Ang Mot Yong
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    • 674 14  -  AT THE PC SHOW INSIDE: HUMAN JAM I^OUTSIDEp REPORT AND PICTURES Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg TRAFFIC jams and parking woes have become synonymous with computer fairs. But compared to previous occasions, this year's PC Show did not turn the roads in town into
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    • 665 15  -  OTHERS CALL THEM 'SELFISH' RESIDENTS PUT OBJECTS TO PREVENT PEOPLE PARKING REPORT AND PICTURES Hedy Khoo hcdykhoo@sph.com.sg HERE we go again. Another private housing estate with a narrow road and round of grouses about parking. Again, rubbish bins, wooden crates, flower pots, cones, chains
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    • 562 16 WITH EurooB fever hitting Malaysia, it appears soccer bookies are doing brisk business. But a coordinated effort by the Malaysian police has put many out of commission. On Friday, police arrested 11 men and six women in Kuala Lumpur
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    • 346 16 Bugs Waste Oil? Scientists design bacteria that excretes fuel COULD a microbe be the cure to the world's petroleum woes? Yes, if a Silicon Valley company succeeds in harnessing,a bacteria that has been genetically modified to provide "renewable petroleum", reported The Times of London. "Ten years ago I could never
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    • 548 17  -  Maureen Koh maureenk@sph.com.sg THEY are wealthy and respected in their social circles. Among them are men and women who have been conferred the tides of Datuk'and Datin in Malaysia. But you won't catch this well-heeled group gracing society balls in their free time.
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    • 441 18 At least 6 killed in Japan quake, aftershocks cause bridge roads to collapse JAPAN QUAKE EARLY warning probably saved many lives. The world's first earthquake early warning system gave Japanese residents a few seconds to prepare for aftershocks that followed the tremoj, reported Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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    • 839 19 Indian state cracks down on wayward godmen ON tourist brochures, the southern Indian state of Kerala markets itself as "God's Own Country". But now, some godmen in the state are finding that they can't really have the run of the place. The state government is on
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    • 275 19 THE police in Kerala had not bargained for the drama. A few days after godman Santhosh Madhavan was arrested, the media in Kerala reported that another godman, Swami Himaval Maheswarananda Bhadrananda (above), was going around in a car fitted with a red
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  • SUN NEWS
    • Snap Shot
      • 56 21 As Hillary Clinton transforms herself into a team player, she must again fake it till she makes it. She still doesn't believe Barak Obama can win, but she knows she can move ahead only as a beguiler, not a begrudger. Maureen Dowd on the US Democratic Party's presidential
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      • 42 21 RESIDENTS were forced 10 us* rafts to travel when they faced flooded streets in Yangshuo County, in southwest China's southern China triggered floods that killed six evacuation of 150,000 residents, reported the state media yesterday i picture ap xinhua
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      • 123 21 AFP. TURN on the taps. That is the message world finance chiefs sent to oil producers yesterday as they warned that runaway oil prices could threaten global economic growth. The Group of Eight finance ministers also called for a probe into market swings. High
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      • 95 21 AFP. ABOUT 500 South Koreans turned out in Seoul yesterday for the funeral of a 40-year-old activist who set himself alight. Mr Lee Byung Ryol had died on Monday, 15 days after he set himself on fire to protest a US beef import deal that has sparked massive
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      • 98 21 Reuters. PAKISTAN'S former prime minister Nawaz Sharif says President Pervez Musharraf must be held accountable for abrogating the constitution and the 1999 coup, in which Mr Musharraf, then the army chief, ousted him. "Is hanging only for politicians? These blood-sucking dictators must be held accountable," Mr Sharif said
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      • 156 21 THE attempted escape by two accused persons Jamaluddin Salam and Salman Abu Samah from the Subordinate Courts on Wednesday was due to human error and failure to follow established procedures, Law Minister and Second Home Affairs Minister K
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      • 208 21 AP. POLICE briefly detained five opposition activists who got dozens of children to protest against a law that allows detention without trial. The children carried teddy bears outside Malaysia's national palace yesterday as a symbolic gesture to present to Malaysia's king, to plead for
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      • 75 21 An Italian crook begged to go back to jail, saying life behind bars was better than living with his wife again. The 45-year-old had been sent home, to serve the second year of his two-year sentence for theft under 9 house arrest. But after two days he fled back
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous

  • OUR Sunday
    • 529 22 f# •Til L »i•]a k v SI HE wante&ttTbe in Paper New I Face 2008 contest s© mud\she would not take ne for an Answer. 1 Swissotel the Stamford yesterday, one r contestant (above, wiping away tears) walked KT back in td ask the judges
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    • 397 23 I *g k j <( i' J* j oHIHHHHHHHHfIMHHHHi Hi W Theyinstinctlvely <£d^SS^v^ltez I I ..j, L «-:»,> ..ikAM?* k/ WMrtll city wneref Miss Bradshaw would've been proud, as die local version of the character, er, 'carried" it Thursday night in the chi-chi Camden Medical Centre's sorry
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    • 590 24  -  Santokh Singhx santokh Qsph.comsg HAPPY Father's Day to all fathers. But do permit me, in light of the title of this column, to also wish a Happy Father's Day to all father figures. By that, I mean all role models such
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    • 404 24  -  Choo Chng IF you're competing in a swimming event, can your swimsuit make a difference as to whether you win Gold, Silver, Bronze or Tin? The answer is definitely "Yes" but only if you're wearing a Brazilian bikini competing against an SAF commando with combat
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    • 523 25  -  k A Maureen Koh maurrcnk@sph.com.sg WHEN Mr Sky Chiew decided to go into the dough trade last July, he knew it must be a case of "doing it big or nothing". There were at least six main brands of doughnuts, in addition to those from
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    • 106 25 Donut Empire Cafe: 226 Tanjong Katong Road Tel: 6344 0880 355 Sembawang Way #01-06 Tel: 6484 3545 OUB Centre #B1-09 OUB Shopping Centre Tel: 6536 5731 Take-away outlets: #01 -103A Millenia Walk Tel: 6333 9662 #B1-52 United Square Tel: 6253 5376 #01-07/09 East Wood Centre
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 322 26 TView CHANNH.S——— BBflfiC 2010 Pita World Cup Qualifiers B Singapore vs Saudi Arabia (Encore) Olympic Golden Moments GP Story The Beijing Dream iHK Life's Funniest Moments UDO Aviva Open Singapore 2008 R Finals (Live) 615 B Making Of The Chronicles Of I Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
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    • 94 26 U Are The One Grand Final Channel U, 7.30pm Find out which of the remaining eight finalists Gavril Skaros, Zhang Zhen Huan, Yuan Shuai, Louis Fong, Germaine Chow, Ren Liang Yi, Tang Shi Qian and Mable Soe will be named the station's Fresh Face Of The Year and win $25,000.
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    • 84 26 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Channel 5, 7.15pm A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world led by the world's most unusual and eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka. Starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore. Lobbyist W Drama (StarHub Ch 55), 10.30pm In this new Korean
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    • 36 26 The Reaping (right) HBO (Startfub Ch 60), 9pm A ex-Christian missionary, who specialises in debunking religious phenomena, investigates a small town which seems to be suffering from the 10 biblical plagues. Starring Hilary Swank, David Morrissey.
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  • our sunpflv
    • 586 27  -  Table for 4 WHERE Vibe, Pan Pacific Orchard (the former Negara Hotel) Tel: 6737 0811 WHO WENT The New Paper New Face 2007 finalists: Jessica de Costa, 2 7 Sheralynn Shenjega, 20 Yeoh Wee Teck wrrteck@sph.com sg THIS is the second of our
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    • 678 28 Folks behind movie Get Smart had to think over the top to outsmart modern technology AP. THE shoe phone on TVs Get Smart wasn't just a sneaky spy gadget, it was a technological marvel: a wireless, portable telephone that could be used
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      369 29 Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg Dearest Papz, I know watching soccer matches on TV is your favorite pastime, but ever since 30 Jan,
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  • SUN RACING
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    • 1279 31 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 1 4-223 Thi SpacM AM 57 (55) IOM 5 (4ag M Thwartes-M ThwaKss) 2 -23-7 Eatoaatftv 56 5 (52) LI TaJ* c2 IS (4ag A Rahlm-Champagne) 3 673*74 VRBNflf A SHM S3 (47) J ftHkv c2 11 (3ag KH Ng-Mrtm
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    • 1151 32 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 7 Mi. UtftraM HORSE Hf» Ratiag Jactay Banli w (Afa/arifhi/aax, tiaiaai 1 270-6- SaNaa 57 (70) ILagrti (8rog F NattiarvTTie Raffles) 2 9644-4 MbbIciI Off 57 (78) Callaw 1 (8ireg BT Un-Numtoer One) 3 *****2 hpm 57 (77) ST Mmi 11
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    • 73 32 (Race 4 No. 5) BEST BET SPARKLING RAINBOW (Race 4 No. 5) is a horse on the upgrade. This Anziyan four-year-old lost no marks last week when pitted against a strong Gass 3 bunch for the first time. His third to Jeram Sword in that race stands him
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    • 523 32 ■ACE 1 AJAY STAR was difficult to be loaded. STRIKE ON was slow to begin. GRANDE CHAMP began very awkwardly, shifted out abruptly and checked ayvray from the heels of CHEVY. •CLEOVENTURA showed no early pace. STRIKE ON and SUNDUVAN hung
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    • 953 33 RACE 1 (1,000 m) Hot Pepper (No. 5) caught the eye on debut last month when a distant second to the promising Bolero over this course and distance. He's the one to beat. Ambitions Treasure (1) has been coming along nicely for his
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    • 1093 34 GOING: GOOD Auckland Racing Club Trophy 10 RAM'S MUSIC 54.5 c 53.5 (19-8) N Azkm (1) 2 2 1 (471) 1 BOA BOLEM 57 c 55 (169-39) M HuaM (5) 1 1 2 (495) 0.75 12 SOU MSAKTM 53.5 c 51.5 (157-32) LmMi' (3) 6 5
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    • 67 34 FORMER champion Benny Woodworth has overtaken reigning champion Azhar Ismail in the Malaysian jockeys' table by bagging five winners at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He scored with Jeram New Special (Race 2), Jeram Elegant (Race 4), Kelantan (Race 9), Rort Hie System (Race 10) and Lucky
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  • Sunday SPORTS
    • 687 35 Steve Newell, who has worked with many of the world's leading players and teachers, has written several golf books. Newell now works primarily for top golfer Ernie Els 1 VOWED long ago to never get into the business of forecasting, but every now and then
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    • 555 36 US OPEN MORNING LATEST AP. TIGER Woods opened the third round of the US Open with a double bogey this morning, a near exact replay of the way he played the first hole of the tournament two days earlier. Just like Thursday, he
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    • WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS (ASIAN ZONE) – SINGAPORE 0 SAUDI ARABIA 2
      • 329 37  -  David Lee npsports@sph.comsg IT'S the end of a fairytale run the Lions' lofty dreams of World Cup qualification are well and truly over following their 0-2 defeat against Saudi Arabia at the National Stadium last night. And it's the same old story: Singapore created enough chances
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      • 104 37 Reuters. IRAQ kept its 2010 World Cup hopes alive and buried those of China's after Nashat Akram's second-half goal gave it a 2-1 win in.the third round of Asian qualifying in Tianjin yesterday. Emad Mohammed's header four minutes from halftime put Iraq back into the match after
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    • Euro
      • BETTING
        • 426 38  -  THE FINK TANK Daniel Finkelstein Special Correspondent SWITZERLAND v PORTUGAL (Swiss win 40 per cent, Draw 26 per cent, Portugal in 34 per cent) DOES it matter that the Swiss are out and Portugal already through? Things like that don't usually alter the probabilities
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        • 175 38 Euro08 Stats after Need help for your football punting? Here's a compilation of the Euro08 results so far. Greatest f»n: Edwin van der Sar gets a kiss from his daughter after the Dutch beat France 4~1. picture afp I How: 6 times I f££ Mi: 9 times
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        • 698 39  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg SWTTZERLAND w PORTUGAL IRONY and football go hand in hand. Everybody was writing off co-hosts Austrians, at the same time labelling Switzerland as the underdogs. As it turned out, Austria is still in with a shout, while co-hosts Switzerland have been
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        • 440 40  -  FROM THE GROUND Eric Ping npsports@sph.com.sg THE final round of group matches is always the tricky one. Even seasoned punters admit this is the stage where things get tough at the betting shop. Tommy Goh, who quit his engineering job to be a full-time
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        • 429 40 Best let© If s one of those days when staying clear of the betting choice may be the wisest thing to do. There are too many uncertainties surrounding the Switzerland-Portugal fixture, while nothing seems to separate the Czechs from the Turks. The head's telling me to
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        • 517 41 INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: SWITZERLAND: Frei, Stroller, HEAD-TO-HEAD: Switzerland S; Portugal draws 5 LAST MEETING: 13 Oct 1993 Portugal 1 Switzerland 0 (World Cup qualifier) TEAM FACTS: SWITZERLAND: Only the second host country after Belgium in 2000 which failed to progress from the group stages since the introduction
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        • 558 42 TEAM FACTS: UM HAH MING; BEST PICK: BRIAN MILLER; WHO'S HOT, WHO'S HOT: BRIAN MILLER INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: TURKEY: Nil. CZECH REPUBLIC: Nil. HEAD-TO-HEAD: Tntey 1; Czech Rep 11; draws 3 LAST MEETING: 1 March, 2006 Turkey 2 Czech Rep 2 (friendly) TEAM FACTS: TURKEY: Since
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      • 672 43 GROUP A: TURKEY v CZECH REPUBUC 2.35 AM TOMORROW THE European Football Union (Uefa)'s decision to introduce penalty shoot-outs for tied group stages means that everyone will be watching Turkey's vital clash against the Czech Republic with much interest. Penalties may not be much fun
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      • Article, Illustration
        64 43 PORTSMOUTH will end their interest with Czech star Milan Baros, reported The Sun on Thursday. The Lyon marksman, 26, failed to impress the Premiership club, scoring no goals in his 12 games since moving to Fratton Park in January, with a view of a permanent move. Similarly,
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      • 571 45 GROUP A: SWITZERLAND v PORTUGAL 2.35 AM TOMORROW SWITZERLAND hopes to exit EurooB on a high by claiming their first victory at the European Championships. That could come at the expense of a weakened Portugal side in their final group game in Basel tomorrow morning. Portugal
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      • 163 45 THE Cristiano Ronaldo saga continues as Real Madrid are said to be offering the Portuguese hotshot £182,000 ($488,000) a week to move to (he Bemabeu, according to die Daily Telegraph. This comes after Fifa announced that they will not step in to intervene on Real's alleged tapping,
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      • 322 46 MORNING LATEST PunterS' Rant SMILE if you're winning. Because in Euro08, you have to go through plenty of stress before you can collect your money at the betting outlet. Or worse, your bet slips may end up in the dustbin. But for the majority of
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      • 367 46 WHAT chance the Greeks of repeating their success of Euroo4? Zilch. And their lack of quality has been as obvious as a fat woman's bum over their past two matches. They lacked attacking ideas, and struggle to keep out the invaders in defence. Russia to
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      • 299 47 MORNING LATEST TOP SCORERS (after 2nd round of matches) 4 David Villa (Spain) 3 Lukas Podolski (Germany) 2 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden) 2 Wesley Sneijder (Holland) DAVID Villa must be on every football fan's lips now. The Spanish forward is on a white-hot streak, adding four goals
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      • 420 48 PA Sport. THEY have just suffered a morale-sapping defeat at the hands of Spain. However, Sweden are eager to put that behind them. Lars Lagerback admitted that he was stunned to lose to Spain so late in the match, but issued a rallying cry to his players
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      • 173 48 Wire Services. IT is a make-or-break game. But Russia coach Guus Hiddink claims his team will be outsiders when they play Sweden in their final EurooB Group D match on Wednesday. This clash will decide which of the two sides progresses to the quarter-finals. The Dutchman, 61,
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      • 603 49  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg Wire Services Alan Hansen was a stylish footballer during his playing days. Composed, steady and assertive, the key man in Liverpool's last line was virtually unbeatable. These days, he makes a living as a football pundit, a job which requires him to
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      • 79 49 SPAIN has qualified for the quarter-finals after this morning's v 'ound of matches, and needs at 1 east a draw against Greece to 1 ake top spot. If they lose to Greece, they avoid Group C winners Holland if the winner of the Russia-Sweden game fail
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      • 663 50 Coach of Euro champions Greece rues lost ana defends negative tactics MORNING LATEST AFP. GREECE'S win in Euro 2004 is the kind of miracle that comes around only once every 30 years, said their coach Otto Rehhagel following his side losing their crown yesterday
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      • 193 50 PA Sport. BEFORE their encounter with Greece, Russia coach Guus Hiddink gave a hint to his players: A video of his old team, Holland. Hiddink, the former Holland coach, wasn't focusing on the silky skills of Real Madrid star Wesley Sneijder or the finishing
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      • 431 51 MORNING LATEST TOHARI says: IT was the perfect execution of a planned set-piece. Everybody expected Xavi to send an inswinger into the penalty box, and it was only natural for a Swedish defender to focus his attention on the red-hot Villa. Instead, he was just a decoy
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      • 605 52 WITH Holland tearing into the Group C's "Group of Death" like a great white shark in an aquarium, this clash with Sweden was Spain's chance to prove that the Dutch aren't the only big fish at EurooB. Unfortunately for them, the Scandinavians were
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        264 52  -  Lim Sey Heng npsports@sph.com.sg DAVID Villa's stock rose again this morning, after his all-round performance against Sweden in the Group D match. While Villa did not replicate his bagful of goals here, he showed his versatility as a tactically disciplined player, dragging a defender out during the
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      • 345 53 Wire Services. ONE is better than three. Spain striker David Villa fired home in the very last minute to net the winning goal against Sweden one that he deemed exceedingly valuable. "This goal is worth more than the three against Russia," he revealed.
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      • 609 53 AP. PA Sport. WERE Spain lucky? Not so, according to Spansh coach Luis Aragones who saw his side pull off a narrow 2-1 win over Sweden in EurooB. He believed that Spain deserved their late winner after creating so many chances to clinch all three
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      • 78 53 Spain defender Carles Puyol will undergo a scan today on his injured right foot. The 30-year-old Barcelona centre-back was substituted by Raul Albiol after 24 minutes after injuring the sole of his foot. The 30-year-old player will undergo medical scans on Sunday. l "I hope he won t
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        489 54 IT TOOK a late, late strike by who else, but David Villa. And what a present that was for the fans who appreciate beautiful football w more than anything else. With its 2-1 win over W Sweden this morning, Spain is assured of a place in the Euro08
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      • 186 55 MORNING LATEST GARY GOES FOR SPAIN Form comes and goes, but quality is long-term. Many people have been talking about Holland, who ripped apart Italy ana France, but to me, Spain look the most complete side in EurooB,
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      • 221 55 AS we expected, Spain should now top Group D barring any shock against Greece in their final group game on Wednesday. That will leave Russia and Sweden tied on points now in the table to duke it out for die second quarter-final slot Initially, we favoured
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