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Premier League Action

Wednesday 1 January
Arsenal v Chelsea, Aston Villa v Bolton, Blackburn v Middlesbrough, Charlton v West Ham, Everton v Man City, Fulham v West Brom, Leeds v Birmingham, Man Utd v Sunderland, Newcastle v Liverpool, Southampton v Tottenham
Saturday 11 January
Bolton v Fulham, Chelsea v Charlton, Liverpool v Aston Villa, Man City v Leeds, Middlesbrough v Southampton, Sunderland v Blackburn, West Brom v Man Utd, West Ham v Newcastle
Sunday 12 January
Birmingham v Arsenal, Tottenham v Everton
Saturday 18 January
Aston Villa v Tottenham, Blackburn v Birmingham, Charlton v Bolton, Everton v Sunderland, Leeds v West Brom, Man Utd v Chelsea, Newcastle v Man City, Southampton v Liverpool
Sunday 19 January
Arsenal v West Ham, Fulham v Middlesbrough
Wednesday 22 January
Newcastle v Bolton provisional
Tuesday 28 January
Birmingham v Man Utd, Bolton v Everton, Chelsea v Leeds, Middlesbrough v Aston Villa, Sunderland v Southampton, West Brom v Charlton
Wednesday 29 January
Liverpool v Arsenal, Man City v Fulham, Tottenham v Newcastle, West Ham v Blackburn

Hua Hin Hash House Harriers

Hash Run #31Á Saturday : 14 December
Hare: Doug/Poo
LAST RUN OF THE YEAR 2002!
Another year is coming to a close and H2H3 ends it with one of the best run of the year, thanks to GM Doug and Poo. Sixteen hashers gathered for this finale run held at the scenic and superb reservoir grounds between Cha-am/Hua Hin. At 4:35 pm, the Hares called On On and hinted that this is going to be a long run. Off we went sprinting half a kilometer towards the reservoir ground proper breathing in the crisp and clean air. First check took us to the right and into the shady trail. The numerous checks and a tricky loop kept the pack together most of the time with front runners - Colin, Terry, Don, Bill and May cooperatively checking while the rest of the packs were escorted by the Hare who swept from behind. Once out of the shady trail we headed into Dutch Lady country and into a Muslim village.
We practically circumnavigated the whole Muslim village and were heading towards the Mosque until the paper trail stopped. The front runners dispersed in all directions sniffing for papers to the amusement of the little village kids who had somehow played a prank on us. They had brilliantly disconnected the trail so that we could admire the beautiful Mosque and not just run past it. After a good 10 minutes and some sense of bearings where home is, we managed to find paper but we also found that we were heading in a circle again when we ran past the Dutch Lady cows the second time.
Sensing that something was wrong, we re-tracked our trail and found the Hare calling out to the walkers and directing us to the correct trail. By then we knew that the village kids had made a calculated move to lay the lost paper in such a way that we will do another lap and see the Mosque again and maybe stay on for the evening prayer at 5:45. Sorry kids, we pray to our beers only and would like to zoom back - Pronto! A few more checks before connecting us back to the shady trail and a sweet and long home run that took us back to our beer wagon in just over 55 minutes.
The circle was called by the GM and on downs to the Hares for a marvellous run, to visitors - Oxygen and Wan from Darwin Hash, to returnee and founder member Colin.
We then headed to Silver Spoon for our On On and some excellent food and beer till late at night. Thanks Jit and Pimpa for organizing a Christmas Eve party. Next run will be on 11 January 2003.

Football Fever

An annual tournament involving around 40 local teams was held at Stamford University from 10th to 25th of last month. The purpose was to raise money for drug awareness and promote some friendly competition on the pitch between teams. Hinchester United's first match was on the 10th, a solid all round performance by everybody resulted in a convincing 5 - 1 win. Next round was the following Saturday where, despite another good game, the opposition were too strong and scored twice late in the second half resulting in a 2 - 0 defeat for Hinchester. The final game in the group stage was held one blistering hot Wednesday morning, a week before Christmas. Our opponents played an outstanding game of football resulting in another Hinchester defeat by 4 - 1 and exit from the tournament. Hinchester Utd would like to thank everyone who contributed and played, a good time was had by both players and spectators.

Hinchester and Sky Wave players pictured below before an 11 a side match at the 16th Infantry pitch near Suan Son. The game was very even in most respects but Sky Wave's shooting from distance proved to be Hinchester's downfall, Sky Wave winning 7 - 4.
The picture below was taken after the Rotary sponsored 5 a side exhibition game. This time Hinchester ran out comfortable winners 11 - 6.

Hua Hin Pool League

Snipers are firmly in lead as the pool league enters the festive season break.
Snipers are running away from the rest of the pack in Hua Hin Pool League. After seven matches they are still unbeaten and four points ahead of Octopus's and U-Turn. These two teams together with Sabai, Thai Girls, Jungle Juice, The London Bar and Sawan are fighting for the second place and form the mid-table group. Bamboo Grove, Horny Team, Rainbow and Pizza Service are all battling to avoid the last place. In the singles Top 16 list Sabai Paul suffered his first defeat of the season and Sniper Peter climbed to the top place. Octopus's John, Londoner Wij and Sniper Steve are also well positioned in the standings. The league will now have a break for the holiday period and matches will start again on the 8th of January.
TEAM G W D L PF,PA RF,RA MP
SNIPERS 7 7 0 0 64 - 20 66 - 27 14
OCTOPUS'S 7 4 2 1 50 - 34 55 - 36 10
U-TURN 7 4 2 1 48 - 36 54 - 42 10
SABAI 7 4 1 2 56 - 28 59 - 36 9
JUNGLE JUICE 7 3 3 1 41 - 43 44 - 49 9
THAI GIRLS 7 3 2 2 41 - 43 43 - 48 8
THE LONDON BAR 7 3 1 3 48 - 36 52 - 38 7
SAWAN 7 3 1 3 36 - 48 41 - 52 7
BAMBOO GROVE 7 2 1 4 31 - 53 36 - 53 5
HORNY TEAM 7 1 1 5 37 - 47 39 - 50 3
RAINBOW 7 0 2 5 35 - 49 42 - 56 2
PIZZA SERVICE 7 0 0 7 17 - 67 24 - 67 0

G = GAMES PLAYED, W = WON, D = DRAWN,
L = LOST, PF, PA = POINTS FOR AND AGAINST,
RF, RA = RACKS FOR AND AGAINST, MP = MATCH POINTS

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GOLF
Contact: Berny at Berny's Inn 032 532 601
TENNIS
Contact: Thierry at Brasserie de Paris 01-826 6814
SHOOTING
Contact: Bill at Buffalo Bills 01- 481 9637, or Dawn Poole on 01-981 4406
PARACHUTING
Contact Dawn Poole on 01-981 4406
DARTS
Little Scandinavia, Y2K Bar Cha Am, and Bamboo Grove in Hua Hin
G0-KARTING
Contact: Danny 01 267 9121
FOOTBALL
Contact: Billy at Billy's Bar Hua Hin Bazaar
RUNNING/HASHING
Contact May at 032 513855
CHESS
Contact Dieter at Domino. Thursday noon. Call 032 533 376.
POOL
Contact Richard Jungle Juice
DIVING
Contact Craig at U Turn Bar

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