The New Paper, 22 June 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    • 124 1 EURO Highlights r 2-4 the Bend A Free-kick! All the action at Carlsberg EURO 2008 Preview Hew Ch 30 10pm 29 June ghtly till at on ni i i i I HOLLAND 1 RUSSIA 3 (After extra full time time QUARTER FINA 9 D Underdogs Russia outclass hot favourites Holland
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • UEFA EURO 2008
      • 428 2  -  MORNING LATEST Brian Miller bnant&sph.com.sg ~SL X F |'1 they're w *l on th6-foundation. It has -L to be soli 4 enough to hold the i of Russia's portly new Ylker&y* j they're picking out tpr oil having 'it gift-wrapped. hospitals from St Petersburg, to
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      • 283 3 But Austrian govt dismisses claim US and European security officials warned of a possible terror attack in Austria or Switzerland during the ongoing European Championship football tournament, reported ABC News on Friday. The four officials from four separate agencies told the broadcaster that there was
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 744 5  -  THE BIG LO ER He spends on posh meals, birds' nest and betting Nov/, he has only $200 left inbtmk. Shree Ann Mathavan shreeann@sph.com.sg YOU'VE hit the jackpot. Your life has changed. But is it for the better? The answer is
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    • 355 5 HIS last resort is to go after a friend to whom he claims to have lent $50,000 from his Toto windfall. Once "close as brothers", Mr Chpw and his friend have fallen out over the alleged loan. Mr Chew said he
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    • 238 5 MONEY doesn t make the world go round. Mr Stephen Goldbart. co-director ot the Money. Meaning and Choices Institute in San Francisco told CNN that two out of three lottery winners will lose or spend all their winnings within tive years. Another expert. Dr Steven J
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    • 1064 6  -  Inflation, legal belting keep punters away MEuronotas closely followed as World Cup, EPL Maureen Koh maurecnk@sph.com jg THE bookies don't make 'em like they used to. The money, that is. Even as Euro '08 hits fever pitch with the competition into the quarter-final
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    • 367 6 IT'S been called the beautiful game, but for most Singapore fans, it's more the colour of money that is attractive. All 150 people polled by The New Paper on Sunday said they bet on football with 98 declaring that
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    • 337 7  -  THE BIGGEST WINNER Maureen Koh maurccnk@sph.com.sg ILLEGAL soccer bookies may be weeping, but pubs and coffee shops are cheering the Uefa Euro 2008. Business has been brisk for food and beverage outlets offering live telecasts since the competition began three weeks ago. And with Euro
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 569 9  -  ANG MO KIO MURDER Half-naked man found dead, no signs of injury Police say ifs murder Maureen Koh maurccnk@sph.com.sg RESIDENTS in the generally quiet neighbourhood at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 were abuzz when they saw police cars and an ambulance in front
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    • 423 11  -  Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.eom.sg A HOLIDAY turned into a hellish encounter with workshop bullies for one Singaporean family last weekend. The workshop, in Seremban, made them pay more than $1,000 for repair work on their car.
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    • 712 11 When he complains to Seremban workshop, 7 0 mechanics surround family The car broke down again. This time it was towed free by the highway PLUS service to a toll station at Nilai, about 30km from Kuala Lumpur. Mr Nathan called the workshop from there.
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    • 908 13  -  S'POREAN IN ft >v v <-■■••■ HIS DAUGHTER/ 6, TELLS DINER OWNER: REPORTS Elysa Chen elysac@sph.com.sg IT must have been the biggest, most awful secret she has had to keep in her young life of six years. About the most horrible act she
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    • 311 14 IT Is catastrophic for children to low both parents in such circumstances, said Or Ken Ung, 45, a consultant psychiatrist at Mam Road Medical Contra. "They might suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder," be said. Principal psychologist Frances Yoo from KK Women's and Children's Hospital said:
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    • Article, Illustration
      497 14 *c-- X emotions and even hallucinations. These are some possible explanations offered by experts for the murder-suicide by Mr Ng (right) in New Jersey last week. Citing the example of one of his patients, who stabbed his wife several times and then tried to commit suicide, Dr Tommy
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    • 185 14 IN S'PORE: Simon Lee Kok Hwa, 40, a customer service officer with a gambling addiction, strangled his wife, Madam Wee Chye Lian, 39, a clerk, and smothered his children, Jonathan, 11, and Sheena, 4, before jumping from a housing block on 7 Mar 2005. IN M'SIA: Thai
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    • 278 15 28 people believed buried under rubble after arch collapses in China A STEEL railway bridge collapsed in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang province yesterday morning, killing at least seven and injuring 19. China Daily, quoting sources with the Wenzhou city government, reported that the
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    • 236 15 HE was the man who was supposd to be protecting the area, yet he was the fastest to run away. On Friday, two gun-wielding robbers barged into a jewellery store in Kuala Lumpur, reported Guang Ming Daily. To intimidate the staff into giving
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    • 418 16 HONEYMOON MURDER? AN Australian coroner ruled on Friday that an American man should face a murder trial over the death of his wife. Christina Watson, 25, a model, drowned while she and her husband, Daniel Gabriel Watson (below),
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    • 712 17 Devout Buddhist had tough childhood, 7" excelled in military school ASIA'S POWER PLAYERS HIS frail frame carries a steely resolve. Retired Maj-Gen Chamlong Srimuang is not one to give up easily. Leading the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), he said yesterday that he is not
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    • 724 18 India's richest man is often simply dressed and prefers simple meals the photos in the public domain are often t«Wm 4 |ft| fg officialfunctions; "-W' *v*»' V. Mr Mukesh Ambani, the head of Reliance Industries, prefers a white short-sleeved 1 shiiV black trousers and black
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        44 19 In recent years the FDA (Food Drug Administration) has found itself with more and more to d 0... To check all the food production facilities around the world at the current rate of inspections would take 1,900 years. John Carey, Business Week
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      • 98 19 THE Dow Jones Industrial Index closed below 12,000 to hit a three-month low when US stocks fell 220.40 points on Friday. Rising oil prices and warnings of more mortgage-related write-downs at banks had reignited investor fears of worse to come. Adding to the pessimism, Standard Poor (S&P)
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      • 40 19 A STREET is submerged by flood waters in Qo3o city in central Philippines yesterday, after Typhoon Fengphen unleashed strong winds and heavy rains. At least 90,000 were stranded ij» Ooilo after a local dam overflowed, picture afp
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      • 89 19 THE Olympic torch relay passed through Tibet's capital Lhasa yesterday without incident. Security was tight and the area was closed off to all but those given a special pass for the event, AFP reported. Only hand-picked spectators were allowed to cheer the torch as it passed
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      • 97 19 PAKISTAN'S government has renamed the international airport in the capital Islamabad the Benazir Bhutto International, after the slain former prime minister. The announcement was made to mark her 55th birthday yesterday. The airport is actually closer to Rawalpindi, Islamabad's larger neighbour, where she had been killed in
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      • 189 19 RJR PRICE HIKES PffKMNG WAILETS NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said the Government cannot reduce petrol taxes despite soaring oil and pump prices. Speaking on the sidelines of a dialogue session with Tampines residents yesterday, he warned against taking the subsidy route, noting
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      • 229 19 OIL powers and consumer nations haggled yesterday over who is to blame for the spectacular rise in crude prices, as they prepared for a summit in Saudi Arabia on the global energy crisis to be held today. As prices are nearing US$l4O ($190) a
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      • 66 19 A group of 22 residents from Venice, Italy, auctioned themselves on eßay, offering "born and bred Venetians, excellent pedigree, last in stock". The auction was designed to draw attention to the decreasing population of the city of canals, as developers build more hotels and drive up the cost of
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 27 20 Hope, anxiety, joy, despair. Many emotions, one big question: A Who will make A it past round 2? A kelvin chng cel gulapa
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    • 559 21 Emotions run high as the girls vie for finalist spots IT takes something unseen to get into The New Paper New Face finals, not just eye-catching looks. A gut of stone and a mind of steel. Nanyang Polytechnic student Shahirah Price, 17, was so nervous
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  • 404 22 MISS UNIVERSE FINALISTS GET UP-CLOSE AND PERSONAL SUN NEWS THIS year's Miss Universe contestants will finally get a chance to size up their 81 rivals in person. The participants will appear for the first time together at a charity auction and gala dinner in Ho Chi Minh City,
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 396 23  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg HOW far would you go for love? To the ends of the earth! That would be the I romantically-correct response, but most Singaporeans, bom and bred in their air-conditioned comfort zone, would venture as far as, say, Ngee Ann
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    • 437 24  -  Guests awed by boutique ceiling that holds designer's lamps, pictures Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg FROM kampung, through the looking glass, to Ashley in Boudoirland; not bad for a Singapore boy who still hankers after Adam Road hawker centre's food. Plus, he has his shirts
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    • 802 25 AT night, they light up heartland nightclubs with their snazzy oldies. In the day, they serenade spirits at wakes held in the void decks of public housing estates. As the heartland nightclub scene wanes with the increasing popularity of trendier new pubs
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    • 451 26 Study finds 'dark' traits such as narcissism deceit boost men's allure with women IT'S official: Women find bad boys a whole lot sexier than nice guys. A global survey by US researchers has found that men who possess certain "evil" characteristics had more
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    • 638 27  - Wii are not wasting Really S Murali muralisQsph.comsg I JUST read that people spent a total of $51.7 million at die recent PC Show at Suntec City. Can you believe that? $51.7 million in four days. Twice the amount shelled out at the previous show. Did someone say that rice
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    • 466 27  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choox paikchoo@sph.com.sg Dropping like flies. No disrespect meant, the last 12 months have seen the deaths of many a name which has informed, indirectly, the lifestyles of the few of us "d'un certain age," as they say in the old country.
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 232 28 OUR SUDDHV CHANNEL 5 10.00am Debbie Travis Facelift 11.00 Olympic Golden Moments 11.30 GP Story 12.00nn The Beijing Dream 1240pm Life's Funniest Moment 140pm Sunday Afternoon Movie Screw Loose 2-45 Just For Variety 3.00 I Propose 340 Fashion Police 4.00 Journeyman 5.00 Traveler 0.00 The Simpsons 840 Sunday Prime Movie
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    • 123 28 V L Tha Last King Of Scotland (abova) Star Movias (StarHub Ch 58), 9pm This movie is based on the events during the regime of charming but brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen by his idealistic Scottish physician, Nicholas Garrigan. Starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy. HBO (StarHub Ck SO),
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    • 47 28 TView Heavenly Mission Channel U, SJOpm A superintendent's new mission is to investigate a legendary triad leader and a newly emerging influential figure in the gang. He places both under close surveillance in the hopes of obtaining criminal evidence and arresting them. Starring Elan Cheng, Stephen Fung.
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    • 43 28 Fahrenheit 9/11 Arts Central, 10pm This documentary film explores director Michael Moore's view on what happened to the US after 9/11 and how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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  • 625 29  -  Table for 4 WHERE: Don Pie, 25 China Street, #01-01, Far East Square Call: 6327 4344 Hours: Bam 9pm (weekdays), Bam spm (weekends) WHO WENT: (Below, from left) Elinn Kong, 18, culinary science student Kelvin Lim, 28, chartering operations executive Valerie On, 19, student OUR SUNDAY
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  • 433 30 Will French Open champ Ana Ivanovic take Sharapova s place as glam girl of tennis? SUNNEWS SHE'S been forced to give up her French Open tennis crown recently to her Serbian rival. But will Russian tennis queen Maria Sharapova end up second-place off ths court? Ana Ivanovic
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  • SUN RACING
    • 595 31  -  Tan Thean Loon !oon@sph.comsg HIS first runner Teskara finished third, so did his second entry Stedman. But yesterday, new trainer Michael Freedman made it third-time lucky as he saddled his first winner with his sole runner Ntini. The odds-on favourite saluted in Race 4, a
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    • 189 32 FOUR-TIME champion trainer Laurie Laxon is back in pole postion. A quick double yesterday in Races 9 and 10 saw the New Zealander move up to joint top spot with 40 winners as long-time leader John Meagher drew a blank. Laxon's Walkato capitalised
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    • 1918 32 GOING: GOOD 6 LUCKY cmr 58 (13-5) B' 5 OK OF VICTORY 58 (78-18) H6a 8 6QI AUG 55 (59-14) 0 2 setem orrai59 420-77) ...ji j 10 WTSVFOVHI 52.5 c 50 5 (80-21) i mhy mma 59 c 55 (24-io> m b* 3
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    • 497 32 GOING: GOOD 3 MM 5 CORN 2 sura wont 57.5 (32-10) MATE SAM 54.5 (16-9) SCBK 58 (8-5) 1MM PHwa JlMfc M:! i TraiMr: F Kersley. MarflM: 0.75, nk, 3. Thar Imin 36.425ec. EQft $108. Fwwrt: $19. Ttarer $79. Trtr $6. I Race 2 TABFORM SPRINT
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    • 1018 33 RACE I (1,*****) Bed Killer (No. 2) has continually been knocking on the door at each of his seven starts this term and is an each-way chance. Expedildd (0) has been freshened up following a disappointing effort over 1,400 m but he had gone
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    • 79 34 (Rck* 10 NO. 6) BEST BET JERAM FUTURE is a useful youngster who should continue his climb up the ranks. The Len Treloar-trained gelding had the measure of his Class 4 rivals in a 1,200m event on 23 May, under the hot-to-trot Benny Woodworth, without raising a sweat.
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    • 983 34 ■ACE 1 WORLD FANTASY and GET'EM GET'EM bumped on jumping. Shortly after the start, SEA COOKIE was crowded between THE PILOT, who shifted in way from GEM ARC and LUCKY CITY. GEM ARC and LIM'S GLORY were obliged to race wide throughout. O
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    • 1945 35 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 1 HO* tart* K m Rati*f jMftay NMN 57 (53) OlM ITfW 56.5 (52) Ota IMM 55 (49 Mfialtetfw tarrtar (AfMlflMw, tsiasi ihii| IS (4n?g Desmond Koft-Kjua) 1 (4rtro KC V«XH<P 0no) r 8 (4nra S Grav-Waaiman 4
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    • 117 35 RACE 3: Word Of Honour, Great Arc, Golden Tiger. RACE 4: Master Of Triumph, Bugsy, Abalone, Good Lucky, Up Ahead, Magic Eight. RACE 5: Manuka, Golden Flame, Big Occasion, Daring Commander, Kismet. RACE 6: Silent Account, Lion City Hero, Winning Expert, Sea Of Tranquility, Golden Chestnut. RACE 7: Zinly,
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    360 36 Sunday SPORTS MORNING L ATEST Our football analyst at EuroOS TOHARIPAIJAN dissects the key tactical battles between Spain and Italy in tomorrow morning's quarter-final clash ITALY AS THEY prepare for the Spanish assault, Italy will depend on their compact defending at the edge of their penalty area to
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • Euro MANIA MORNING LATEST
      • 635 37  -  QUARTER-FINAL: SPAIN v ITALY 2.45 AM TOMORROW Ben Lyttleton Special Correspondent SPAIN may not have beaten Italy in a competitive match for 88" years but striker Fernando Torres has insisted that he can bring the luck that his team needs to win. Torres has a fantastic
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      • 257 37 PA Sport. SPAIN suffered three painful penalty shoot-out defeats In quarter-finals at major tournaments in matches played on 22 Jun. They lost to Belgium on spot kicks in the last eight of the Mexico World Cup in 1986 after a late Juan Senor goal them a 1-1
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      • 85 38 kjdfkf but Sp&lletu believes Spanish duo of Tones wEiCn OUI x f "Those tw trik to break off the shackles of history and shed particular Italian albatross from around mtSBTWw^ "T»e teamte jfcsfo convinced (they wiil k?i win), no doubt about f*
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        659 38 Aquilani sums up desire to go for 'greater success' AP. ALBERTO Aquilani has a tattoo on his right shoulder that reads "Ad Maiora". In Latin, it says for "even greater success". The young Italy midfielder (left) appears set to turn the saying into reality against Spain. With Andrea
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      • Match Preview SPAIN ITALY
        • 627 39 must be having a oout of deja vu. r "3LJ It was the same wave of euphoria that swept across the country two years ago. Spain had picked up maximum points during the group stage at r the World Cup, and much was of the
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        • 274 39 AP. STRIKER David Villa and his Spain teammates don't hold a grudge against Italy despite bitter and bloody memories of their last competitive match. The EurooB quarter-final match tonight in Vienna will be the first encounter between the two teams since the 1994 World
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    • Euro MANIA
      • BETTING
        • 526 40  -  TEAM FACTS: LIM HAMMING; BEST PICK: BRIAN MILLER; WHO'S HOT, WHO 'S MOT: BRIAM MILLER INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: SPAM: Puyol, SUva (doubtful). ITALY: Barzagli (injured); Pido, Gattuso (suspended). HEAD-TO-HEAD: Spain 8; Italy 9; draws 10 LAST MEETING: 26 Mar, 2008 Spain 11taly 0 (frlendly)(fnendly) TEAM FACTS:
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        • 550 41  -  Gary Lim npsport5@sph.com.sg AFTER reading the predictions from so many football pundits, it's always interesting to see a non-football related personality jump onto the bandwagon. lose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, recendy urged the Spanish side to "break the curse" against Italy. They have
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        • 330 42  -  THE FINK TANK Bet responsibly. Need help? Call: 1800 X GAMBLE (or 1800-942 6253), 6REC0VER (or 6732 6837), 1800-666 8668 SPAIN ITALY (Spain win 41 per cent, Draw 32 per cent, Italy win 27 per cent) Daniel Finkelstein Special Correspondent FROM a computer
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        • 159 42 Need help tor your football punting? Here 's a compilation of the Euro08 results so far. 1x2 I Home: 10 times Draw: 5 times R Away: 12 times '/2 goal ZA 1 -1.8/2.5: 9 times 1 +1.5/2.5: 18 times Total goals J 1 2 times 1 15
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        • 405 43  -  FROM THE GROUND Eric Ding npsports@sph.comsg SPAIN are the favourites going into tonight's quarter-final game against Italy, but just how hot are they with the punters? I was at a betting outlet yesterday to see if there was anyone who will back Italy against Spain and surprisingly
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        • 433 43 Bet responsibly. Need help? Call: 1800 X GAMBLE (or 1800-942 6253), 6REC0VER (or 6732 6837), 1800-666 8668 Best bet There is no need to look too hard. This one belongs to Spain and, from the betting standpoint, there's money to be made. The bookmakers have been
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    • Euro
      • 431 44 PRAY, tell me you won something. Someone, anyone, tell me you backed the Russians on the 1/2 Goal. With Holland showing just $1.53 on the Ix 2, taking Russia on the 1/2 Goal where they were pencilled in at $1.43 looked like a gift.
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      • 243 45 AFP. THROW the form books out of the window. EurooB is suddenly not going with fprm as the three quarter-finals to date have seen two sides with 100 per cent group records and all three group winners bow out Croatia went down on penalties to a
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        507 46 Wire Services. DUTCHMAN Guus Hiddink's magic touch on the international stage continued as his Russia side broke Holland's hearts with a shock 3-1 win to knock the Dutch out of Euro08. The 61-year-old Hiddink had said he would be happy to be a Dutch traitor if his Russian
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      • 275 47 AFP. DUTCH captain Edwin van der Sar equalled France's Lilian Thuram's record for appearances In European championships finals with his 16th here yesterday in the quarter-final with Russia but it ended in sadness as the Russians won 3-1. The 37-year-old Manchester United star the record
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      • 501 48 ONE sentence summed up the desperation Holland faced against Russia this morning. Holland defender Joris Mathijsen said: "We could not get forward anymore and they got the better of us." Just how such a quality side like Holland were so overwhelmingly outclassed by Russia, no one
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      • 316 49 AFP. MILLIONS of hearts were broken in Holland this morning. A deflated Dutch media announced bitterly the national team's crushing exit from EurooB with a 3-1 quarter-final extra-time loss to Russia. "Orange dream shattered in Basel," read the online headline of the Algemeen Dagblad daily. "Russia shattered the
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      • 684 50 1. OVERCONFIDENCE 2. NOT MENTALLY PREPARED JUST when almost everyone was expecting Holland to win, they faltered. Same old story. If Holland coach Marco van Basten and his charges were expecting Russia to roll over and play dead in the quarter-finals, they couldn't have been more
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      • 589 51 1. SUPERIOR FITNESS 2. RELENTLESS ATTACK 3. PLAYMAKER ARSHAVIN 4. STRIKER PAVLYUCHENKO 5. COACH GUUS HIDDINK EVERYONE in Singapore must be wondering how the Russians were able to keep running and running right into extra-time this morning. What do they eat? What do they drink? 1.
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      • 732 52  -  TV VIEW Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg Readers, as i play football later with my friends, I'm going to try to emulate Russia's Andrei Arshavin. Oh yes, I was asking earlier in the tournament when we would see the arrival of that classic No. 10 player the mark
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      • 331 53 CHEEKY on the pitch, and cheeky off it That's Andrei Arshavin the hottest thing to come out of Russia since potato vodka. Imaginative on the field, he is a player opposing teams watch out for. Impish on the streets, he is a looker who attracts second glances
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        201 54 sends J Arshavin sprinting I down the left flank. L. Van der Sar saves *with his fingertips, conceding a corner. 1 Arshavin releases Semak down the left flank. w 2 Arshavin fools Ooijer before rifling a low shot. Semak drives a low ball into the penalty box. IZhirkov releases
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      • 764 56 HOLLAND 1 RUSSIA 3 (After extra-time, FT: 1-1) PA Sport. BRIGHT, zesty and refreshing. Holland's sparkling football at EurooB had football fans around the world proclaiming Oranje (Dutch for orange, nickname for the Dutch team) as their favourite fruit. That was until the Dutch met the Russians
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      • 174 56 3rd quarter-final Our verdict: SO the head still insisted that Holland were good enough to get past a Russia who blossomed so beautifully against Sweden in the previous group game. But perhaps the head forgot that going into Euro08, the Dutch defence had many question marks over it Maybe, the
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