On the eve of Parma's 3-0 1999 Uefa Cup final victory over Olympique Marseille, Cannavaro was videoed inserting a drip into his arm.

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Cannavaro was previously cleared of a similar charge in 1999, when he was videoed inserting a drip into his arm before he went onto to help Parma beat Marseilles to win the Uefa Cup.

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Getting into DRIP and direct purchase plans is easy to do over the telephone and on the Web.

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What is more, by drip feeding money into the stock market month-in month-out Fiona's parents will benefit even if the share price falls in the short term as their investment will go further buying more shares.

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Serialisation is making a comeback: a firm called DailyLit divides e-books into small chunks for drip-feeding by e-mail.

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Bhavarlal stumbled into his niche when he saw a drip irrigation system in 1985 at an agricultural trade show in Fresno, California.

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But the fluid was allowed to run freely into her body instead of in a regulated drip.

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