Thanks Dunk

Last night I sent out an e-mail to a few hundred Koptalkers that I’ve got e-mail adresses for. sadly I don’t have all members adresses, but little did I know that Dunk would help me reach those who I couldn’t get to. One member, redtaffy, posted my e-mail in the forums, and Dunk has been kind enough not to delete it. So now the rest of the members can read it too. Thanks Dunk!

More fantasies and lies from the spanish based LFC site

A few days ago Dunk posted a video of himself from his new home in Spain, commenting on the ownership situation where he says that “everyones fears should be put to rest”. He claims to have got information from someone “in the know”, but can’t really say anything. He doesn’t have a timescale, but he’ll get to know a lot more this week (or in two weeks, he can’t remember) if he doesn’t post any hints. He then asks his members not to speculate on this, well aware that that’s just what they’ll do. And he needs the debate, as his site is slowly dying.

Is Dunk in England?

So Dunk is back in England for the first time since he moved to Spain last summer. At least if we are to believe what he says in his LiveVideo blog:

Moans And Groans As KopTalkers Await An Update

While Dunk slept — sorry, waited to hear confirmation from the Anfield Mole — the few remaining members on KopTalk started to make rather a lot of noise. Where was the update they’d been led to expect? Who was the ‘high profile’ agent Dunk’s contact had revealed would visit Melwood?

They found out in time, but not before they discovered that, while £30 might buy them some made-up exclusives, it certainly doesn’t guarantee free speech. The thread below was locked and two other threads were deleted, though not before we managed to take screenshots. (I’ve trimmed one or two irrelevant posts from the thread below for purposes of readability, but the full exchange can be seen in the screenshot.)

Your Sunday Melwood Agent Bull From KopTalk

You wait an age for Dunk to tear himself away from LiveVideo long enough to concoct some bullshit, then he belches some out twice in a weekend. Having had my fill of the Sunday papers’ weekly quota of rubbish, I logged into KopTalk and found the following gem:

#168190 - Sun Feb 10 2008 02:48 AM EXCLUSIVE: Agent due at Melwood
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Posts: 4458

KOPTALK sources inform us that a high-profile football agent is due at Melwood tomorrow afternoon.

It is claimed that the individual currently represents a player who is under contract at an overseas club but this cannot be confirmed at this time.

The identity of the agent or the client(s) he represents isn’t yet known but it will be either later this evening or at the latest tomorrow morning when his name will be added to the expected visitors schedule at the complex.

We’re hoping to be in a position to provide a further update either late this evening (10pm onwards) or when we surface in the morning.

Why do people stay there to have their intelligence insulted that way? How could it be known that the agent is ‘high profile’ or that he represents a player overseas if there’s no clue as to his identity? So far as it goes, that’s standard KopTalk fare: some hyper-vague nonsense that can’t be proven or disproven and offers no detail whatsoever.

Much worse is the nasty little insinuation that Oldham has a source inside Melwood with access to the register of visitors, who will then betray that information for a sleazy liar in Spain to peddle to his paying members. That is an insult to the integrity of staff who work for LFC, but it’s typical of Oldham not to stop and consider the reputations of those he is besmirching.

What could be Oldham’s motivation? Perhaps it’s revealed by one of his less gullible members.

#168228 - Sun Feb 10 2008 03:26 AM Re: Re exclusive.. [Re: ackred]
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It’s just Dunk playing pin the tail on the donkey again to generate a bit of interest other than the ‘I love the yanks / I hate the Yanks debate’! \:\)

KopTalk Stoop To New Depths With Hicks Bowl ‘Joke’

I’ve been very busy lately, with work commitments somewhat curtailing my opportunities to write here, and other contributors have also been distracted by various issues in their real lives. However, this isn’t a blog about us; it’s a blog about KopTalk, a site that trades off the good name of Liverpool FC, and exploits unwary fans by selling them made-up or copied news items.

Luckily for us, KopTalk has increasingly become an irrelevance. Long gone are the days when it was necessary to publish daily articles, because so little happens there. Oldham appears to have largely lost interest, with his LiveVideo hobby, well-documented by commentators here, seemingly occupying more of his time. But that’s outside the remit of this blog; so long as he is keeping away from LFC, then all the better.

Throughout the lifetime of the blog, we have relied on the background work of lots of different people, many of them existing members of KT, and it was one such individual who mailed me yesterday. The subject line simply read: ‘Koptalk - Pathetic’. Attached were the screenshots you see below, which show Oldham attempting to convince his dwindling constituency that Tom Hicks’s own firm had secured naming rights for the new stadium, to call it the Hicks Anfield Bowl.

It was, of course, a joke. An example of the sort of stunt Oldham will sink to in order to provoke a reaction on his ailing site. It reminds me of his April Fools’ joke, many years ago, claiming that Sami Hyypia was the subject of a £20M bid from Manchester United. The difference these days is that, thankfully, there are far fewer people reading his ‘humour’ now.

So, now Tom is a member too?

It’s almost a year since Dunk created the account GGLFC for George Gillett and claimed he had paid for the membership with his personal credit card. After being told by Gillett to cancel whatever membership he may have had on Koptalk, Dunk finally deleted the account a few months later. http://koptalkinsider.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/george-gillett-cancels-his-koptalk-membership/