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/ 20 February 2004
A group of Valencia supporters plans to take legal action against referee Pedro Tristante Oliva for awarding a last-minute penalty against their team in last Sunday’s Spanish league match with Real Madrid. About 30 fans have said they hold Tristante Oliva esponsible for “the penalty mistake”.
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/ 20 February 2004
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took another tentative step on the road to full fitness at Altrincham, unconcerned about the threat to his Manchester United place from Louis Saha. The Norwegian forward has managed just an hour of game time since having surgery to correct a knee complaint that has limited him to six appearances this season.
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/ 20 February 2004
I’ve said all season the Gunners are one Thierry Henry injury away from crisis every week. Now that Arsène Wenger has made his canny dip into the coffers at Highbury, that fear has receded a little. And of course it’s Chelsea again at lunchtime on Saturday after this week’s friendly internationals.
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/ 20 February 2004
When Arsène Wenger reflected that a mark of a great player lies in an ability to produce something special when least expected, it summed up José Antonio Reyes’s afternoon on February 15 to perfection. Hard as he was trying, the recent arrival from Sevilla looked lost as an intense cup tie swirled around him.
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/ 20 February 2004
There have only been a couple of occasions in modern times when you could credibly claim that the most gifted footballer in the world was earning his living in England. George Best, for a while in the late Sixties, and Thierry Henry, now. Just how good is Arsenal’s 100 goal-scoring resident genius?
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/ 19 February 2004
The next Cabinet should include many new faces, despite President Thabo Mbeki’s often conservative approach to reshuffles, political analysts predicted this week. They forecast a big migration from the provinces, with Limpopo Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi leading the way.
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/ 19 February 2004
A car crash in the remote desert of Niger killed French film director Jean Rouch, whose pioneering 1960s work in the documentary-style filming known as cinéma-vérité inspired filmmakers in France and the United States. Rouch helped pioneer cinéma-vérité, known for blurring boundaries between fiction and reality, director and subject.
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/ 19 February 2004
Rwanda is to release a large number of prisoners accused of participating in the country’s 1994 genocide who have confessed to their roles in massacres that claimed the lives of up to a million people, the chief prosecutor said on Wednesday. The release plan comes as Rwanda prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary genocide.
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/ 19 February 2004
Dangerous awaiting-trial prisoners swapping identities with inmates wanted on lesser charges is one of the scenarios a pioneering correctional services programme intends to eliminate. The Department of Correctional Services is expected to start a ”tagging system” among awaiting-trial prisoners by the end of April.