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    • 117 1 EURO Highlights r 2-4 Bend A Free-kick! All the action at Curlsberg EURO 2008 Preview on Ch 30 at 10pm, nightly till 29 June. QUARTER FINAL HOLLAND 1 RUSSIA 3 (Alter extra time, toll-time 1-1 9 the Hew ft ti D A b 22 JUNE 2008 n V A m
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • 440 2  -  MORNING LATEST Brian Miller Brian Qsph.com jg TODAY in Moscow, they're working on the foundation. It has to be solid enough to hold the imposing statue of Russia's portly new hero. Over in Siberia, they're picking out an oil well and having it gift-wrapped. And,
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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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    • 259 2 UEFA EURO 2008 updates brought to you by Carlsberg to be solid enough to hold the imposing statue of Russia's portly new hero. Over in Siberia, they're picking out an oil well and having it gift-wrapped. And, in maternity hospitals from St Petersburg to Svetlograd, deliveries are being induced so
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    • 296 3 before the Euro quarter final between the Netherlands and Russia. With millions of fans filling the match venues, security officials say a terror threat is likely. picture I ofp (orlsl Poi CAN 6 J 2 rf St* -< >• ■W-v gaps IE' r HI, r EURO A TERROR TARGET: REPORT
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  • SUN NEWS
    • THE BIG LO ER
      • 743 5  -  He spends on posh meals, birds' nest and betting Now, he has only $200 left in bank Shree Ann Mathavan shrecann @sph. eom.sg YOU'VE hit the jackpot. Your life has changed. But is it for the better? The answer is not
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      • 237 5 MONEY doesn t make the world go round. Mr Stephen Goldbart. co-director of 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 five years. Another expert. Dr Steven J
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      • 357 5 HIS last resort is to po after s friend to whom he claims to have lent $50,000 from his Toto windfall. Once "dose as brothers", Mr Chew and his friend have fallen out over the alleged loan. Mr Chew said he
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      • 1078 6  -  Inflation, legal betting keep punters av/ay MEuronotas closely followed as World Cup, EPL Maureen Koh maurccnk@sph.com.sg 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 rounds,
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      • 336 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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      • 338 7  -  THE BIGGEST WINNER Maureen Koh maurecnk@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 oudets offering live telecasts since the competition began three weeks ago. And with
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 570 9  -  ANG MO KIO MURDER Half-naked man found dead, no signs of injury I Police say ifs murder Maureen Koh F» RESIDENTS in the generally quiet neighbourhood at Ang Mo IQo Avenue 8 were abuzz when they saw police cars and an ambulance in
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    • 1138 11  -  When he complains to Seremban workshop, 10 mechanics surround family S'porean pays over $lkfor repairs but car still breaks down 10 times 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
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    • 903 13  -  S'POREAN IN TELLS DVNER^^MH REPORTS Elysa Chen clysac@sph.comjg IT must have been die biggest, most awful secret she has had to keep in her young life of six years. About the most horrible act she may have witnessed, or is likely to witness
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    • Article, Illustration
      482 14 hallucinations These are some possible explanations offered by experts for die 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 Tan, 46, a consultant psychiatrist, said:
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    • 287 14 Road Medical Centre. "They might suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder," he said. Principal psychologist Frances Yeo from KK Women's and Children's Hospital said: "Witnessing their parents fighting and arguing or witnessing a murder can have a negative impact on a child's physical, emotional, cognitive and social
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    • 186 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:
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    • 279 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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    • 417 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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    • 706 17 ASIA'S POWER PLAYERS Devout Buddhist had tough chilahood, excelled in military j school HIS frail frame carries a steely resolve. Retired Maj-Gen Chamlong Srimuang is not one to give up easily. Leading die People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), he said yesterday that he is not
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      492 18 dfdkfd 8 ■^||ggg|yjg But WSe the ascetic and a champion of the village, Mr Ambani is "an oligarch, a champion of the city, aburiei of the past and a man who deftly and, some critics say, ruthlessly wields financial power". ok-*; Mr Ambani is upbeat about a resurgent India.
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    • SnapShot
      • 43 19 In recent years the FDA (Food Drug Administration) has found itself with more and more to do 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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      • 99 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 re ignited investor fears of worse to come. Adding to the pessimism, Standard Poor
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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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      • 191 19 FUEL PRICE HIKES PINCHING WALLETS! 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 die 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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    • 52 20 > Wt v 20 NEW FACE f 2008 i '.HI liTnn 6*223 i c tit. A m M t •M t-r- .v£ r _j Hope, anxiety, joy, despair. Many emotions, one big question: Who will make J it past round 2? far. tup |'u tint" kelvin chng tnp design eel
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  • 556 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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    • 26 21 kUNG Ftl > I i V 1 <"*• A* p m*' WUs '-or an anmiatun irovie NungFuPhndrcom I>kia\iVM»kks »M« i H.l (W •V/i:nesH PHNDHHONIUM BEGINS IN CINEHRS TODHY!
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  • 401 22 MISS UNIVERSE FINAUSTS GET UP-CLOSE AND PERSONAL 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, Vietnam, tomorrow.
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  • 391 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 romantically-correct response, but most Singaporeans, bom and bred in their air-conditioned comfort zone, would venture as far as, say, Ngee Ann City.
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  • 431 24  -  Guests awed by boutique ceiling that holds designer's lamps, pictures Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg FROM kampung, through die 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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  • 804 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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  • 450 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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  • 637 27  - Wii are not wasting Really S Murati mumlisQsph.comsg I JUST read that people spent a total of $51.7 million at the 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
    • 15 28 OUR SUnDflV 10.00am 11.30 1240m 12.30pm 3*00 12.00mn Berita Programme times are subject to change.
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    • 32 28 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.
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    • 42 28 TView 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 diem. Starring Ekin 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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  • 638 29  -  OUR SUNDAY 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
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  • 434 30 Will French Open champ Ana Ivanovic take Sharapova s place as glam girl of tennis? SUN NEWS 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 the court? Ana
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  • SUN RACING
    • 580 31  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@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 Waikato capitalised
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    • 1871 32 GOING: GOOD C5 1100m fi LUCKY CITY 58 M3-51 VmtST 3) 2 2 1 486 m 5 KM OF VHTIUlV 58 (78-18) M OaHafhar (1 4 3 2 428 1.75 8 OEM ARC 55 (59-14) OCkmz 6 3 4 3 491 Hd 2 GET'EM
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    • 505 32 GOING: GOOD Race 1 PR.COM H'CAP 1600M I r' -i-"■■•'-■ HHHH| BTj 1.-9-1 L^Vlfl B'f 1 h; t .11^^ trakNT F Kersley. Ntorataae 0.75, nic, 3. Ttar Imm 36.425ec. EOS: $108. frnmmt $19. Three $79. Tito: S6. Race 2 TABFORM SPRINT 1200M 2 SPECIAL M 7
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    • 1022 33 RACE 1 (1,200 m) Red Ruler (No. 2) has continually been knocking on the door at each of his seven starts this term and is an each-way chance. Ezpedlldd (6) has been freshened up following a disappointing effort over 1,400 m but he had
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    • 288 33 GOMG FORECAST: YIELDMG TMmmmwm 3 o%m TK 2 3 SSl&hluk omy IS 7 M i k![ !55nZL fte, S iil i ItMIMM 6101 WUU2T« m »l» j &>S" SIY 1SSSL >3 s Jgr, as 5j» t »S5~~" 5fv JitoS" 1" 1 II I
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    • 79 34 (Race 10 No. 6) BEST BET IERAM FUTURE is a useful youngster who should continue his climb up the ranks. The Len Treloar-trained gelding had the measure of his Gass 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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    • 989 34 RACE 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 away from GEM ARC and LUCKY CITY. GEM ARC and LIM'S GLORY were obliged to race wide throughout. O
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    • 1797 35 GOING FORECAST: GOOD U. Last 6 rra HMSC W1 Rath* Jack* Tinfii (T|w i11|Tnfi11 mini nn) 1 -7 ShNI NMh 57 (53) D Im IS 4rug Desmond KofHgua) 2 00 tM(ta|Ttai 56 5 521 IOh 1 4rug KC Y«oM(P Ong) 3 6902-5 MfsitifcaMk
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    • 117 35 ■ACE 3: Word Of Honour, Great Arc, Golden Tiger. ■ACE 4s Master Of Triumph, Bugsy, Abalone, Good Lucky, Up Ahead, Magic Eight. ■ACE 5x Manuka, Golden Flame, Big Occasion, Daring Commander, Kismet. ■ACE 6: Silent Account, Lion City Hero, Winning Expert, Sea Of Tranquility, Golden Chestnut. ■ACE 7s Zinly,
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  • Sunday SPORTS
    • Euro
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        357 36 MORNING LATEST Our football analyst at EurooB TOHARIPAUAN 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 cushion the pressure.
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      • 636 37  -  QUARTER-FINAL* SPAIN v ITALY 2.45 AM TOMORROW Ben Lyttieton 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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      • 193 37 PA Sport TKm> Inot nnlmum nn tun lost to pflffliun on i I otmMWi ttjttm II I*l ton on ttMMpNM by and I liu«L the spot, co hosts South Korea on down in extra timeTspain appeared to have grabbed a "golden goal" winner from Fernando Moiientes only
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      • 23 37 MORNING LATEST tgtgt KpSF sws3£srfß fegSfr if .Mr V., i/t.' 3Mg£ Wpbls* jjpffil 'Jt* &M
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        619 37 Aquilani sums up desire to go for 'greater success' AP. Alberto Aquiiani 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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      • 627 38 be having a PPKt of deja vu. jLJ 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 the World Cup, and much was I of the side after a
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      • 288 38 Spain bears no grudge a 9 ainst lta[ Y Villa Cud champions as a grudge match. that SDain would be di: 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
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      • BETTING
        • 489 39 TEAM FACTS: UM HAH MIHG; BEST PICK: BHIAH MILLER; WHO'S HOT, WHO'S HOT: BRIAH MILLER NT: Spain's strikers are firing and I will be surprised if Fernando Torres does not score. The 24-year-old has been coming along fine and, with David Villa, he could spell
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        • 552 40  -  Gary Lim npsporls@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. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, recently urged the Spanish side to "break the curse" against Italy. They
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        • 314 41  -  THE FINK TANK Daniel Finkelstein Special Correspondent SPAIN v ITALY (Spain win 41 per cent, Draw 32 per cent, Italy win 27 per cent) FROM a computer simulator's point of view, EurooB has gone pretty smoothly. On the whole, the better team has
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        • 152 41 ITALY'S CHARISMATIC COACH: Roberto Donation!. picture lap picture ap 1\2 Odd/even score 71 1 Amr ssr 12 test kJli IE 1 V2 goal 1 Pick the score H -1.1/2.$: Ill a OtaesH +1.W.5: tltfeMS Total goals 2-0: 341: 5 times Once 0: is 2: 2 times SUMS
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        • 400 42  -  FROM THE eROUND Eric Ding npsports@sph.com.sg 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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        • 416 42 Best bet© Brian Miller Today: 2 Total hits: 51 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 rather generous in offering $2.22 on Spain on the 1x2.
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      • 433 43 MORNING LATEST 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
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      • 245 44 MORNING LATEST AFP. THROW the form books out of the window. Euro08 is suddenly not going with form 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
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        547 45 MORNING LATEST 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 die Dutch out of EurooB. The 61-year-old Hiddink had said he would be happy to be a Dutch traitor if
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      • 277 46 MORNING LATEST 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
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      • 504 47 MORNING LATEST 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,
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      • 319 48 MORNING LATEST 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
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      • 678 49 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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      • 591 50 MORNING LATEST 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
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