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Date:
Sat, 31 May 2008 8:58 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Cristiano Giggs for
Manchester United Win vs Wigan of Premier League 2008
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Manchester United celebrate winning the English Premier League
after their 2-0 win against Wigan in their English Premier
League soccer match at The JJB Stadium, Wigan, England, Sunday May
11, 2008.
(AP Photo/Jon Super)
Sun May 11, 1:05 PM ET
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In this Sunday May 11, 2008 file photo
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson celebrates after
winning the English Premier League folloowing his team's 2-0 win
against Wigan in their English Premier League soccer match at
The JJB Stadium, Wigan, England. Alex Ferguson was selected as
England's manager of the year on Monday May 12, 2008 by his coaching
colleagues — 24 hours after claiming his 10th Premier League title
with Manchester United.
(AP Photo/Jon Super,
File)
Tue May 13, 3:49 AM ET
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Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates with the trophy after his team's
winning of the English Premier League following their 2-0 win
against Wigan in their English Premier League soccer match at The
JJB Stadium, Wigan, England, Sunday May 11, 2008.
(AP
Photo/Jon Super)
Sun
May 11, 1:40 PM ET |
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Manchester United's, Ryan Giggs, center,
lifts the trophy as his team celebrate winning the English Premier
League after their 2-0 win against Wigan in their English Premier
League soccer match at The JJB Stadium, Wigan, England, Sunday May
11, 2008. At left is Carlos Tevez and at right Cristiano Ronaldo.
(AP Photo/Jon Super)
Sun May 11, 3:51 PM ET
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United
clinch 17th Premier League title
as Chelsea falter
by Angus MacKinnon
Sun May 11, 2:53 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Manchester United clinched their 17th English
championship on Sunday by beating Wigan 2-0 in a nail-biting
finale to the most thrilling Premier League title battle in
years.
Pushed to the wire by Chelsea, United claimed the 10th title
of Sir Alex Ferguson's reign by two points after their rivals
were held to a 1-1 draw by Bolton in their final match.
"It was a tough one but it is fantastic," said a delighted
Ferguson. "I'm very proud but I have a great club. It's much
easier for me than anyone else."
Typically, the Scot's thoughts immediately turned to the next
challenge -- next week's Champions League final against
Chelsea.
"The great thing is we are bouncing into the final. We can
look forward to it. If we lost to Chelsea today that is a big
job."
Chelsea boss Avram Grant paid tribute to Ferguson's extension
of an extraordinary record of success. "I want to congratulate
Manchester United and Alex Ferguson," Grant said.
"He is a great manager and a great person, I like him
personally. It is amazing what he did."
Cristiano Ronaldo, with a first-half penalty, and
Ryan Giggs,
on the day he equalled Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 758
Manchester United appearances, were United's match winners.
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This year's win of Manchester United at
English Premier League seemingly contains a message for me too. MU last
match that determined their winning, on the same day of closest rival
Chelsea's match against Bolton, was against Wigan. The name of Wigan team is
like a combination of English language and Jakarta language, "We Gak End".
In Jakarta language, "gak" or "nggak" has the meaning of "no" or "not".
So the name of Wigan team sounds like "We Gak
End" or "we're not end". Related with my consent to move to the eternity,
it was like "we're not end, just you Firman who would end from your
existence on earth...."
It was strengthen by the two goals of their
win, the first made by Cristiano Ronaldo, the second by Ryan Giggs. The
last name of Ryan Giggs is like the Indonesian word "gigi" which means
"tooth", like representing myself who has buck teeth. So rather than
christians being zero, it should be better the "gigi"-man Firman.
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Date:
Sat, 31 May 2008 10:33 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Anelka's Failure for MU Win of Champions League 2008
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The trophy is put on display before the
start of the Champions League final soccer match between
Manchester United and Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium in
Moscow, Wednesday May 21, 2008.
(AP Photo/Ivan
Sekretarev)
Wed May 21, 12:37 PM ET |
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Manchester United
players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Champions League
final soccer match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Wednesday May
21, 2008. United beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after the match
eneded 1-1 after extra time.
(AP
Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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May 21, 6:45 PM ET |
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Manchester United players celebrate with
the trophy after winning the Champions League final soccer match at
the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Wednesday May 21, 2008. United beat
Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after the match eneded 1-1 after extra
time.
(AP Photo/Bernat
Armangue)
Wed May 21, 6:33 PM ET
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Manchester United soccer manager Sir
Alex Ferguson holds the trophy aloft after his team won the UEFA
Champions League Final against Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium in
Moscow, Russia, early Thursday May 22, 2008. Manchester United won
the Champions League final after a penalty shoot-out.
(AP Photo / Owen
Humphreys, PA)
Wed May 21, 7:17 PM ET
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Chelsea's English
defender and captain John Terry misses a penalty during a penalty
shoot out in the final of the UEFA Champions League football match
at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow. The match remained at a 1-1 draw
and Manchester won on penalties after extra time.
(AFP/Franck
Fife)
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May 22, 3:21 AM ET |
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Manchester United's
goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar making the winning save from Nicolas
Anelka to win the Champions League final soccer match at the
Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Wednesday May 21, 2008. United beat
Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after the match eneded 1-1 after extra
time.
(AP
Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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May 21, 5:48 PM ET |
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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, right,
and Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon, left, applaud before the start of the
Champions League final soccer match between Manchester United and
Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Wednesday May 21, 2008.
(AP Photo/Bernat
Armangue)
Wed May 21, 2:56 PM ET |
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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, right,
and Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon, left, react during the Champions
League final soccer match between Manchester United and Chelsea at
the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Wednesday May 21, 2008.
(AP Photo/Alexander
Zemlianichenko)
Wed May 21, 5:17 PM ET |
The final match of Champions League held in
Moscow 21 May 2008 resulted in Manchester United winning against Chelsea.
It was dramatic, after draw in the normal time of 2 x 45 minutes, the
match was held in extra time of 2 x 15 minutes, yet it was still draw.
Inevitably there should be penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.
First it was best of five penalty kicks, whoever scored
better would win. On the third turn of Manchester United kicks, Cristiano
Ronaldo kicked the ball but it hit the post, causing Chelsea to have
the chance to win. Nevertheless, in the fifth turn of Chelsea, John
Terry's ball flew faraway to the left of Edwin Van Der Saar's goal,
making them tie again.
Finally, in the seventh turn, Nicolas
Anelka kicked the ball and it was successfully blocked by Van Der
Saar, and the ball was out of the field, Manchester United won the 2008
Champions League.
Although I had been thinking to watch that
important match held around two o'clock after midnight Jakarta time at
RCTI, but I failed to wake up. When I woke up as usual around fifteen
minutes before four o'clock in the morning, I thought the match had over,
and I watched other programs on TV. But then I heard the neighbor's
scream, the screaming of football fans, making me switched the channel,
and it was already the fourth penalty shoot-out.
The last name of Nicolas Anelka, a Chelsea player that failed to
kick the seventh penalty, containing "an" that reminded me with my
previous letter of "Also Containing Message About Tyas Mirasih and Rahma Sarita"
dated 19 May 2008. That letter also followed by the death of
Sophan Sophiaan on 20 May 2008, whose name also contain "an". I should
be careful with this Tyas and Rahma matter whenever it would turn to be
like "Similarities
of "Turning to Desi" Situation".
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Date:
Sat, 31 May 2008 10:53 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
WH Francis Bacon at Christie's and Roman Abramovich
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This undated photo
released by Sotheby's shows Francis Bacon's masterpiece
painting, 'Triptych 1976' (TRIP tik 1976,) which could fetch $70
million when it's auctioned by Sotheby's on May 14. The large
three-panel work is full of symbolism and draws on ancient Greek
mythology. It was purchased in 1977 from the Galerie Claude Bernard
in Paris and has been shown in the Tate Gallery in London and the
Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris.
(AP Photo/Sotheby's)
Tue Mar 25, 1:38 PM ET
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A woman walks past a
painting entitled 'Triptych' by British artist Francis Bacon at
Sotheby's auction house in London on April 14. Bacon's three-panel
work has been sold in New York for a record US$86. 2 million
(AFP/File/Shaun
Curry)
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The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich,
pictured in 2007, is the mystery buyer of two paintings by Francis
Bacon and Lucian Freud that sold for record prices at auction this
week, The Art Newspaper said on its website.
(AFP/Pool/File/Alexander
Natruskin)
Sun May 18, 6:41 PM ET |
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In this photo released by
Christie's Auction House in New York, Thursday, May 1, 2008, a 1995
oil on canvass by Lucian Freud entitled 'Benefits Supervisor
Sleeping' is shown. 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping' — a 1.5 meter by
2.2 meter (5 feet by 7 feet) painting of Rubenesque model Sue Tilly
asleep on a sofa — sold at Christie's in New York for US$33.6
million (
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Photo/Christie's Images LTD.)
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A triptych of three
self-portraits by famed contemporary artist Francis Bacon (L)
and a major canvas entitled, 'Naked Portrait with Reflection' by
Lucian Freud - currently the world's highest-priced living
artist - will be sold by Christie's next month, the auction
house has said.
(AFP/Ben
Stansall)
Tue
May 20, 3:40 AM ET
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Russia's Abramovich is buyer of record Freud, Bacon works: report
Sun May 18, 6:41 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - The Russian billionaire
Roman Abramovich is the mystery buyer of two paintings by
Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud that sold for record
prices at auction this week, The Art Newspaper said on its website.
It said Abramovich, 41, who owns English Premier
League football side Chelsea, bought Bacon's "Triptych",
which sold for 86.2 million dollars (55.4 million euros, 44 million
pounds) at Sotheby's in New York Thursday.
Two days before, he purchased Freud's 1995 painting
"Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" for 34 million dollars, at
Christie's, also in New York.
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On 26 March
2008 Jakarta time, in the morning I wrote at my ex-senior high school
friends mailing list a joke about "Warung pak Hamid", to explain
the meaning of WH that I previously wrote regarding "a message from WH".
In the afternoon on that same day there was the news on TV about Sotheby's
scheduled to auction Francis Bacon's three-panel work, masterpiece
painting titled 'Triptych 1976'.
Recently
came another news that Francis Bacon's three-panel work has been sold in
New York on 14 May 2008 for a record US$86.2 million. And the buyer
is the owner of English Premier League football club
Chelsea, a Russian oil tycoon billionaire Roman Abramovich.
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