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/ 27 February 2004
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by United States defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer newspaper, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ”Siberian” climate by 2020.
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/ 27 February 2004
Few would argue that Phil Neville has been one of the most improved players of the past couple of seasons. There is no doubt some influential judges rate Neville highly as a midfielder, which is why he was just a teeny bit disappointed last week to be called up for England in his old position.
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/ 27 February 2004
So what do we think? Are Manchester United finally on the slippery slope? Is Alex Ferguson now ready for the pipe and slippers? Is Roy Keane losing it in more ways than one? So many Anyone But Uniteds (ABUs) have prayed for these things for so long, ever since the Old Trafford club began dominating the Premiership in 1992.
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/ 27 February 2004
So 92 teams from four divisions enter the League Cup and what happens? Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers will scrap it out in the final when the season’s first silverware is decided at Cardiff’s Millennium stadium on Sunday. Boro and Bolton? It’s not quite what we might have expected when Arsenal and Aston Villa got to the last four.
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/ 27 February 2004
The South African Rugby Players Association has reacted to the publicising of players salaries that was made available to the media by the president of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu), Brian van Rooyen. It has called the act ”a breach of contract by Sarfu and SA Rugby”.
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/ 27 February 2004
Former Bafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba will make his debut as new coach of Black Leopards against his former club Orlando Pirates in the Absa Cup at Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday. Mashaba, a former Pirates captain, was appointed coach of Leopards two weeks ago.
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/ 27 February 2004
Skipper Stirling Mortlock scored two tries and created another Friday as the ACT Brumbies thrashed the Cats 68-28 and moved atop the standings in the Super 12 rugby union competition. Mark Gerrard and rookie lock Mark Chisholm scored two tries apiece and Joe Roff landed nine conversions for an 18-point haul.
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/ 27 February 2004
An indefinite ban has been placed on race meetings at the Cape following the discovery of another case of horse sickness near Stellenbosch. The new case follows the outbreak at Elsenburg Agricultural College near Stellenbosch, where five horses died at the weekend.
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/ 27 February 2004
Flying Fiji winger Rupeni Caucaunibuca scored a hat-trick as reigning Super 12 champions the Auckland Blues defeated last year’s finalists the Canterbury Crusaders 38-29 on Friday. Caucaunibuca, the star of last year’s World Cup, was in scintillating form.
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/ 27 February 2004
Gus Theron was on Thursday withdrawn from the Stormers squad for Saturday’s Super 12 match against the Highlanders at Newlands. Theron trained on Wednesday afternoon without a problem, but reported that his knee was injured on Thursday morning.