The New Paper, 28 December 2008

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  • News Santa Killer
    • 794 2 Newly-divorced man (right) in Santa suit kills 9 people in party massacre before turning gun on himself. His main target? His ex-wife WHAT drove Bruce Pardo to dress himself as Santa Claus, use a homemade flame-thrower and kill nine people? The bodies, one
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    • 769 3 fhg From PAGE 3 "I am desperately seeking work and have since applied to many companies, resulting in several job interviews," he wrote in a court filing. Pardo asked the judge to order his wife to start supporting him Her lifestyle, he
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  • News
    • 715 5  -  This is one of many requests by tourists to Afghanistan as interest in war tourism rises REPORT: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zatanQsph.amsg TOURISTS would often ask Mr Charanjit Singh to take them to see the fighting on the frontlines. They have also asked Mr
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    • 258 5 Israel West Bank popular THERE seems to be a demand for visits to conflict areas or former war zones. Whatever may be the reason curiosity or personal travel agents have been to quick to offer deals to such travellers. Aside from Afghanistan, destinations like Israel, Palestine and the West Bank
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    • 451 5 Face In The News FED up with his boozing ways, the family of former football star Paul Gascoigne (rigjit) has given him an ultimatum In a TV interview, his 12-year-old son gave a heartrending account of living with the troubled man His
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      902 6  -  Briton (below) quits job withßßCto write book on loos with best views REPORT: SHREE ANN MATHAVAN shreeam@sph.com.sg ONE passenger spent an unusual amount of time at a male toilet in Changi Airport's Terminal 3. No, it wasn't because he had a weak bladder or had eaten something
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    • 773 7 At the centre of our stories were regular people with spectacular courage STORIES of courage like theirs have made headlines in The New Paper throughout the year. Now here is your chance to help pick The New Paper's Hero of the Year. Continuing today and ending
      TNP PICTURE: HEDY KHOO; TNP PICTURE: KELVIN CHNG  -  773 words
    • 846 9  -  Unrepentant daughter-in-law says she can do what she wants to her own home REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN ctystafcOspfLcoißsg ITS hot unusual to come across friction between two women living under the same roof when one is the daughter-in-law of the other. But in
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    • 637 11  -  FATAL CRASH 1: CLEMENTI REPORTS: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg HE was looking forward to returning home to India next month after working here for nearly two years. But Mr S Riga's dreams of a new life in his Tamil Nadu hometown were dashed
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    • 251 11 FATAL CRASH 2: QUEENSWAY THE driver's side of the lorry was so badly crushed that it took rescuers 40 minutes to extricate the trapped driver. The lorry (left) had crashed into a tree on Queens way around B.loam yesterday. Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)
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    • 864 12 Nightmare for Secret Service and surprise for Americans when Obama walks into mall in bermudas and T-shirt Wire services. IT was pandemonium as Mr Barack Obama, trying to enjoy die last semblance of normal life before he becomes US president on 20 Jan,
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    • 798 13  -  This unusual woman is a top player in the Iskandar M'sian development region REPORT: ZUBAIDAH NAZEER zubaidah@sph.coni.sg SHE loved music so much that she got a diploma in playing the piano and dreamt of being a pianist But Mrs Arlida ArifFs mum told her to
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    • 261 14 Tl»ft»M>U 1,1. .1,, Limdwrf tlnrfonrl i rmuwn iBnanyT Bnwuiwn Dwnau (I®), tekandar Malaysia has set out to woo Singaporeaninvostota,i a •>. > Mrs ArtidaArfff was quick to counter perceptions thBt Singaporeans were unwelcome. ~ii&& f „■£> Earlier this year, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad had said
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    • 558 15 Pakistani tenor group recruits highly educated THEY are young, have bachelor and masters degrees, and are highly-motivated Muslims with bright futures ahead of them. But according to security experts, these same individuals are also becoming the new faces of global terrorism. The Times of India has reported
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    • 370 15 A MOTHER of two young children has gone into hiding after her husband wagered her in a card game and lost Worse, she only found out that she had been wagered when the four men who had "won" her showed up
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    • 447 16 UK minister hopes to work with Obama to tackle problem IF the UK has its way, your favourite website may soon get tagged with the equivalent of an MlB or R2l rating. The Daily Telegraph reports that the Britain's Culture Secretary Andy Burnham is
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    • 452 18 IT looks like gold stars and a pat on the back just aren't enough to encourage British students to behave well. The Daily Mail reports that some secondary schools have implemented a rewards scheme where students with good behaviour stand to win
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    • 675 17 You'd expect the wife of Bill Gates to be at a country club instead of India's slums WHEN you're married to a man who has been the world's richest for 13 years running, most would expect you to spend your days relaxing
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  • 677 19  -  THE BUZZ News Exchange REPORT: SANTOKH SINGH santokhOsptuxmsg FOR the longest time, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has been making public the performance of different ethnic groups in national exams. But why focus on race? Some are asking if income and housing type are
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    • 334 19 Breakdown students who passed PSLE PSLE students who scored A*-C PSI£ stndents who scored i*-C PSLE students who scored in English language in Mother Tongue language A*-C in Mathematics of PSLE and Malay Malay Malay O level BHHHHB 99% Chinese 963% Chlnese 98^% CNnese results in Indian Indian 96.6% Indian
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    • 338 20 PSLE students who GCE 'O' level students GCE 'O' level students who GCE 'O' level students who GCE 'O' level students scored K*-C in Science with at least 3 'O' level passes passed English language passed Mother Tongue language who passed Mathematics ■Matey Malay MMMB Malay 79.3% Malay MM 99.5%
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  • 756 23  -  Enjoy REPORT: SYLVIA TON PAIK CHOO pafcctooOspticonisg IN the film Yes Man, Jim Carrey signs up for a self-help programme based on one simple principle: Say yes to anything and everything. (Now why didn't Singapore think up that tag for a campaign: Just Say
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  • 619 24  -  FISH PIE Enjoy Hed Chef Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@Bph.com. sg T' HIS is a stressful period for the waistline. With all that turkey and roast ham, it's time to toss some seafood into the food fray. After all, if you are going
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    • 395 25 Q) fiA Beach party? L— Shore thing! f ALL it a lil' full moon madness, I know some JHf ®I friends who started getting in shape months J ahead to prepare for the recent beach rave Sentosa two weeks ago. Overnight, these couch pota- toes turned into gym bunnies to
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  • 137 26  -  Enjoy YEOH WEE TECK dfd EVERYBODY deserves a little Zen sometimes, right? And what better time to remind ourselves of that than before the year ends. Nevermind the stress and the bad news, take a few moments out to treat yourself a little better. A positive
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    • 521 26 Chill to your own beat 9 MB A massage does wonders to soothe then the next and you can even choose "ftllllfV StfUftS frOltl Within frazzled nerves. your own music. So if you must relax to 7 if IUWAi Damai at Grand Hyatt Singapore (above) gangsta rap, you can choose
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    • 488 27 Music boxes have long been viewed as B ■B appreciated by the finest of aristocrats. This music box featuring "Two Girls at the Piano" by French artist Pierre Auguste I gk Mm m can be at the Metropolitan BW W Museum of Art Store f Other designs are also Brouahtto
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  • 322 29  -  Enjoy Dr Date DAVID TIAN to*. AT only 9 years old, it will be several years before Alec Greven will be allowed to date. But the fourth-grader from Casde Rock, Colorado, has taken what started out as a US$3 ($4.50) handwritten pamphlet at his
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  • Enjoy Columns
    • 517 30 AN OLD golf pro once told me that fatherhood has a huge impact on many professional players. According to him, something about having a baby calms a man down, makes him more focused, relaxed and ready to bring home the big
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    • 513 30  -  HO LIAN-YI MIDDLE CRASS ON Christmas Day, I woke up at 9am to the sound of my wife saying: "Oi." My handphone had beeped and with one eye I read the message. It was from my buddy Kai and it said he would arrive in
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 385 32 ARGYLE SWEATER SCOTT HILBURN a Seeing stars BY KUAH SENG SENG SAGITTARIUS The your death will be made into a Broadway You will be Tom |~^7^ByP?TTW^ r Hanks, whilethecartload.ofangry chirnps will be provided by the I Singapore Zoo. -n.l I CAPRICORN The saying goes c I bitten, twice I would
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 735 33 Edf^ftfcfc 91 UNIVERSA^ BfcfrL Johnny Depp (left) and Orlando Bloom (far right) star In Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End. picture: disney enterprises Bp H WATCH'EM CHANNEL 5 MOOR I Football Asia Show 2008 f- —I 1230pm Whacked Out Sports Pirates Of The Caribbean: At IjOO Movie-uttie Secrets I—L—1
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    • 186 34 Thanks for sharing your pictures with us. For two weeks starting next month, we want to show off your best HW holiday pictures. So start sending your best vacation r snaps and messages to tnpforum@sph.com.sg v r DearHabib,Even though you have a "V busy schedule, you. always make it a
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  • Sports Racing
    • 93 35 COLOURLAND WORLD (Race 4 No. 1) SHOULD greet the judge as he steps up to his winning trip this afternoon. Surged to the front in the straight in a 1,400 m affair last Sunday only to find Speedy Wind stronger at the finish. The 1,700 m looks tailor-made
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    • 165 35 RACE 1 RACE2 RACE3 RACE4 RACE5 RACES RACE7 RACES RACE9 RACE 10 RACE 11 Bo* (JMux B*a OokNriMd Jug Prince Happy Currency 1 Asset King WWd Ft* &*J I PNw VWory Honour f Este0m GoMan 1 Better a Century Saw S Liang 41 Sky Kilo's Time Ctzan Wings
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    • 1018 35 RACE 1 TERMINATOR ATTACK, who was difficult to be loaded, must requalify an Official Race Trial. VAL ALGEO, who proved difficult to be loaded, must pass a starting stall test GREY GOOSE, who was fractious in the barrier, was taken out, examined
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    • 1656 36 MUDLARKS RACE 1: Cosmic Commander, Golden Hawk, Boomer Capital. RACE 2: Universal Asset, Speed Leop- ard, Fortune Way, Northern Express, Governor Zanner, King's Angel, Show Off, Gold lion, Star Of Irgun, Mandiri, Diamond N Ace. RACE 3: Baja King, Dream Emperor, Lafuar. RACE 4: Colourland World, Duke
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    • 892 37 fg 1 Race 1 C*****m1 8 CWF OF HONOUR 50.5 C4&5 (250-4® JactoonLmr HI) 2 2 1 (484) 12 NATURAL GOOO 50 C 50.5 (43-11) (Nl t 1 2 <511) NK 3 RQLUN6 MGH 54 (10-5) 7 5 3 (479) 05 9 TR*»l£WONOe» 50.5 c 48.5 C38-9» JsMiClufc (6) 6
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    • 512 37 Race 1 WESTSPEED 2Y0 PIATE 10OOr 4 THE CORPORATION 55 (10-5) PHawy (9) 1 2 MASTWTWBY55(56-14) Unftxsd (4) 2 9 KASZAMCA 53 (49-13) J Brown (6) 3 Trainer D Harrison. Margins: 0.75,0.5,0.5. Time: 59.9sec. EOB: $14. Forecast $43. Place Forecast $11 (Nos. 2-4), $36 (Nos. 2-9),
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    • 149 37 JOCKEY Azhar Ismail has virtually wrapped up his sixth champion jockey title in Malaysia. Both he and challenger Benny Woodworth rode a winner each at Penang yesterday and Azhar will go into the final Malaysian race day today with a four-win-ner advantage, at 59-55. Woodworth
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    • 1820 38 RACE 1 (1,200 m) Mutual Gain (No. 2) needs to defy a big weight but has been in solid form with two wins and a placing from four runs this term and continues to hold condition well. He's an each-way fancy. Top Speed (12)
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  • Sports Mad about Golf
    • 794 39  -  STEVE NEWELL dfd IT'S THE season to be jolly.. .not! Good heavens! What have they been putting in the golfers' and caddies' drinking water this month? Forget this being the season of goodwill, 'tis the season to have a bit of a pop at someone. Steve
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    • 192 39 SINGAPORE swept the major honours at the World Golfers Championship 2008 in Orlando recently. The Republic won die team championship from 17 countries and two of its players, Daren Lim (right) and Francis Tan took individhonours. Among the other Singa- I pore players, Sahney
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    • 133 39 Reuters. CAPTAIN Jose Maria Olazabal has added Englishmen Nick Dougherty and Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal to his European team to play Asia at the Royal Trophy next month. Their selection completes Olazabal's eight-man team for the 9-11 Jan contest, won by Europe on the previous two
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    416 40 Sports Flava of the Week UM SAY HENG'S PICK: LAM CHIH BING fg HIS BACKGROUND MFLUBICED by his parents Pin Thiam and Uan Suan, Lam first teed off at the Singapore Island Country Club driving range at the age of 11. The Marls Stella High and Temasek
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      773 41  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg YOU'RE surely familiar with that Maria in Russian sports Maria Sharapova. Now meet the new Maria who could be the next rising star from Russia. Maria Verchenova may not be a household name in women's golf, but she has what it takes to
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    • 350 42 What Is the best shot you have played to date? IT WAS the eagle I shot at hole 17 at the Royal Golf course in Morocco. What comes next as a passion after golf? DANCING. B Who Is your all-time hero? ■k TIGER Woods. i Describe
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  • 740 43 Sports AFF Suzuki Cup AFF SUZUKI CUP FINAL, SECOND LEG VIETNAM v THAILAND Vietnam lead 2-1 on aggregate THE fiercely competitive and highly entertaining AFF Suzuki Cup reaches its climax tonight with Vietnam looking to protect a slender one-goal advantage over tournament favourites Thailand in what is
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  • Sports EPL
    • 530 44 PA Sport. SUNDERLAND have appointed Ricky Sbragia as permanent manager after his successful spell as caretaker. The Scot, 52, has been handed an 18-month contract by chairman Niall Quinn as the reward for his four games in charge as caretaker, which have brought two victories, a draw
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    • 456 44 PA Sport. ASSISTANT coach Ray Wilkins has given the biggest hint yet that Chelsea will be in the market for a striker in next month's transfer window. Chelsea travel the short distance to face west London neighbours Fulham today boosted by their 2-0 win over
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    • 49 48 1 1 r— i--C* Am Kt Ki Ld| IM 1 ■«IHmmmM rULHAiVl DRAW CHELSEA HOME 1 1/2) AWAY |-1 1 *2) 0 COAL 1 ■j 3 1 5 H 7 a I H-H H-D H-A D H D-D n-i AH A-D A-A EXACT hCOHL
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    • 300 48 Bet responsibly. Need help? Call: 1800 X GAMBLE (or 1800-942 6253), 6RECOVER (or 6732 6837), 1800-666 8668 Manchester United squandered a bucketful of chances against Stoke and were luky to get away with the three points at the Britannia. It will be different at
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    • 502 49 ERIC DING npsports@sph.com.sg ONE would have thought that Manchester United are the team to back after their recent triumph in the Fifa Club World Cup. However, as I found out speaking to a seasoned punter, United are the team making punters lose
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    • 1028 50  -  JAMES EASTHAM Special Correspondent ■ARSENALv PORTSMOUTH (Arsenal 3 Portsmouth 1) No Lassana Diarra and that's just one of the reasons Portsmouth will come away from the Emirates with nothing. Pompey boss Tony Adams reckons he'll be allowed to spend some if not all of the
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    • 695 51  -  DANIEL FINKELSTEIN Special Correspondent ARSENAL v PORTSMOUTH (Home win 70 per cent, Draw 18 per cent, Away win 12 per cent) ARSENAL are a fluent passing side, but it hardly needs a computer to establish where their weakness lies they let the opposition pass too
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    • 243 45 INJURIES/ 0-15 min: 3,3 BEST PICK; The Reds go into SUSPENSIONS: 16-30:3,7 this game In rampant form, NEWCASTLE UNITED: 31-45:4,5 after comprehensively Martins (doubtful); Ameobi, 46-60:4,4 beating Bolton 3-0 on Boxing Gonzalez, Barton, Smith, Ngo 61 -75:3,3 Day. Newcastle, however, are Baheng (injured). 76-90:7,3 not easy opponents at St LIVERPOOL:
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    • 196 45 INJURIES/ 0-15 mln: 5,3 Played 8, won 2, drawn 2, SUSPENSIONS: 16-30:4,7 lost 4 BOLTON WANDERERS: 31-45:5,2 Cohen, O'Brien, Vaz Te 46-60:2,1 BEST PICK; Wigan have lost (Injured). 61-75:1,5 just once in their previous WIG AN ATHLETIC: Boyce 76-90:5,6 eight matches. That said, (doubtful). Bolton have a decent WIGAN defensive
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    • 200 46 -v. -5- INJURIES/ CONCEDED): TOTTENHAM'S AWAY SUSPENSIONS: WEST MOM FORM: WEST MIOMWICH ALBION: 0-15 mln: 1,3 Played 9, won 2, drawn 2, Valero, Teixerlra, Greening 16-30:0,5 lost 5 (doubtful); Miller, Clement 31 -45:3,8 TOrrBWAM HOTSPUR: 2R2s»S^llirf Jenas, Bent, Woodgate, Dos 76-90:3,6 wMM meTreleaatiSte Hantos (doubtful); Hutton te (Injured). TOTTENHAM 0-15
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    • 204 46 INJURIES/ EVERTON SUNDERLAND'S AWAY 0-15 mln: 1,3 FORM: EVERTON: Antehebe 16-30:2,3 Played 9, won 3, drawn 2, (doubtful);Yakubu, 31-4533 lost 4 Vaughan, Valente, Jacobsen 46 60 1 6 (JnJure?)- 61 75 6 6 BEST PICK: Everton, while SUNDERLAND: Connolly, 7fi excellent on the road, have Ward (doubtful); McCartney, IU 4
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    • 240 47 §j|f •>:?; r.','? jp^ INJURIES/ WEST HAM Rayed 9, won 0, drawn 3, SUSPENSIONS: 0-15min:4,2 lOSt 6 WEST HAM UNITED: Dyer, 16-30:4,3 Collins, Gabbidon (doubtful); 31 -45.5 2 BEST PICK: West Ham's Ashton (injured); Bellamy 45^0- 1 '4 stunning 4-1 win over (suspended). 61-75-2 6 Portsmouth couldn't be more STOKE
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    • 167 47 ARSENAL: Bendtner, Toure won 2, drawn 3, Kaboul, lltaka (doubtful); 76-90* 7*6 n tooWnfl shaky Ciftcf (suspended). ever since Tony Atoms took im ov6r the helm. Three defeats HEAD-TO-HEAD: 2? P l 6 tr ?i iave not dona J ftKgufeT**** s sss^ssii tl, draws 51 3Mfc*4 46-60:7,3 PortsnfflshoSdtano Dw. 2007
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    • 149 48 Kamara (injured). 46-60:4^3 CHELSEA: Carvalho, Essien 61-75:2,0 (injured); Twry (suspended). 7^90:1.5 > minor. **st away team, Chelsea. HEAD-TO-HEAD: CHELSEA This should be an interesting Fulham wins Chelsea 38; 0-15 min: 6.2 cjash. foresee Fulham draws 20 16-30:7,1 defending this game with ail 31 "45:8,2 their might. This is why I
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    • 232 49 PICKS MM Ham to teat Stoke on tie Ix 2 WEST HAM'S wretched run saw them jpjck up just two wins in their last 13 games. During this period, they however managed to secure some valuable points, notably in die two away draws against Liverpool and Chelsea. It suggests they
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  • Sports EPL
    • 528 52 MAN CITY 5 Caicedo (15,27), Robinho (28,36), jretewl (82) Fagan(Bo) Manchester aty boss Mark Hughes felt his side had finally shown what it was capable of after destroying Hull on Boxing Day. Hughes' men produced a superb attacking performance to leap out of the Premier League
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    • 254 52 MIDDLESBROUGH O EVERTON 1 Cahill (51) PA Sport. EVERTON boss David Moyes singled out 18-year-old debutant Dan Gosling for special praise as his injury-ravaged side secured its seventh away win of the season at the Riverside Stadium. Former Plymouth striker Gosling seized his big
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