Some responses

I’ve just received this update from Dunk, by email from one of our readers. Here it is in full -

The Michael Shields campaign team have been in touch with me this evening informing us that they have been contacted from some anti-KopTalkers – former (banned) forum members and/or others asociated to rival sites – who are trying to spin some yarns about your host.

What these people don’t know is that Matt from www.freemichaelshields.org and myself, have been in touch behind the scenes on a regular basis.

Not many people know this but I personally arranged a £1000 donation from my own pocket, to try and help Michael’s cause, just like you guys helped Lauren and her family when she was paralysed in 2004.

When I make donations I don’t ask for publicity. For example, when I donated a new PC to the HJC, I didn’t ask them to mention this on their website, just like we haven’t asked for any publicity on Michael’s campaign website.

In an email to myself today, Matt informed us about these idiots and explained that Michael’s family wanted to distance themselves from them, just like Lauren’s family has done by having to take down the Lauren Forsyth website following threats.

Matt said: “I’ve asked them to make it clear that the michaelshields campaign have no problem with you or KopTalk. In fact we’re grateful for the support and the donation.”

He added: “If I see anything on other LFC forums I’ll put the record straight.”

It was because of him tipping us off that I thought I’d throw something up on the site.

As Matt can confirm, KopTalk owns www.michaelshields.co.uk – this is used to route to our own campaign pages about Michael. He has been aware of this since day 1 when I discussed it with him.

However, since our site makeover, our campaign pages haven’t returned fully yet and until we receive a fresh update from the family, they won’t. They will be added when I decide and not before.

Rivals of KopTalk have not only been targeting myself, my mother (a widow), my son (6) and my daughter (13) but they have also targeted my paralysed cousin Lauren.

A decision was made earlier this week to simply move Lauren’s website to another URL and restrict access to friends and family only as a result.

There have also been suggestions that fundraising for Lauren was some kind of ploy for me to personally benefit from. ALL administration and donations have been handled by my mother Jeanette who can verify this along with Lauren’s parents. All of whom are available to meet personally. This can be arranged at anytime.

The reason postal donations went to the same address as KopTalk’s North East office is because I’m hardly going to put her home address on am I you fecking numpties doh… which looking at the last couple of weeks shows why. Shame on you for including her in your agenda.

Website rivalry sadly exists, which is a shame considering all Reds should be one united family. I don’t class KopTalk as a rival to anyone, you won’t see me bad mouthing ANY other websites or communities – EVER. And the rejects? Well they have to go somewhere and over the years there’s certainly been a few of them… so many infact that numerous sites have spawned up from them as a result.

During the last few weeks some of these individuals have played on the following issues to try and have a pop at me:

The death of 96 Liverpool fans
The Michael Shields campaign
An 18-year-old paralysed Liverpool fan

They have also exchanged, distributed and manipulated photos of my 6 year old son, my 13 year old daughter and my late father.

These photos have been freely available on this website for my friends to see etc but they have been altered and circulated for some kind of perverted reasons.

Despite all of this I can assure you that thanks to the support of my readers – many of whom have become good friends over the years – I’m as strong as ever. Offers from let’s say ‘underworld’ readers to have them dealt with have been declined.. even though the emails have been humerous

There is no justification for trying to capitalise on extremely sensitive issues. But if it keeps them amused talking and playing with photos of my children then so be it.

But I tell you this, I aint going anywhere. KopTalk will continue ticking on until the day my readers tell me to call time. They’re the only people that count to me both here and on the main site. And this summer visitor numbers are up along with people supporting this site. Why the sudden interest in my book? I hadn’t been promoting it of late but they’re helping sales which is why I don’t want to comment too much as a lot of the internet myths will be answered in it when it comes out THIS season.

www.anfieldexposed.com – someone even joked that I was behind the negative publicity to raise the awareness of the site and the book

What others choose to say doesn’t phase me in the slightest. I’ve had it for years and no doubt it will continue for years so please stop telling us what they’re saying coz I aint fussed. It’s what happens when you don’t tolerate idiots and when you achieve things that they can only dream of.

Thanks for the emails of support. Without them, I’d probably be gassing myself out in the oven.. although it is electric….

The reason I’m posting this in the open is because they have access here. Sadly they haven’t got the guts to say what their usernames are, unlike myself who’s at KOPTALK HQ just about every day of the week. Come and visit us.

I don’t want to bore you all to death with this and I know they’re pathetic but I had to respond as while some of you may think it’s funny, it’s actually hurting people not associated to me. It doesn’t hurt me because if it did, I wouldn’t be here but to target others is a bit sick and a bit gutless.

Don’t respond to them, don’t defend the site.. just ignore them.

Dunk knows best

I’ve not seen this update myself, in fact I had just finished reading an email from elsewhere telling me that Duncan Oldham had reportedly made a sizeable donation to the family and to also redirect the domain name. I’ll refrain from further comment on that issue until I have had chance to find out some more information. If Dunk has indeed made a large donation to this cause then it shows that the person we all thought was bad through and through maybe has got some good in him. Especially if this donation was indeed given confidentially – I know I hadn’t heard of it. In the meantime I’ll assume that what Duncan says above about Michael and his family is true.

At last – something good to say about Duncan Oldham. And I am not being sarcastic when I say that, because it has become quite tedious reporting negative issues every day about Mr Oldham.

Unfortunately, rather than just sticking to what put him in a good light, Oldham then had to add more lies and exaggerations to his rant. I feel it’s important we discuss them.

For example, when he says, “when I donated a new PC to the HJC, I didn’t ask them to mention this on their website” – how come I and many others knew all about it? Did I imagine it and it was a coincidence? Or was it being publicised? And from what I hear, it was a long time coming that computer – he’d promised it (in public) for a good while before he finally bought it for them. For more on the HJC computer look here – post I found on TLW after googling – I’ve not time right now to look into it in more detail. Maybe someone else can supply me an update.

This bit is a little misleading too. I need to quote this section because of what is said about Lauren Forsyth – “In an email to myself today, Matt informed us about these idiots and explained that Michael’s family wanted to distance themselves from them, just like Lauren’s family has done by having to take down the Lauren Forsyth website following threats” I’m not sure what these threats are Oldham, but there were no threats from us. Pretending you’ve contacted the police about these threats won’t work either. Should we contact them too, to see what they were? There were no threats Oldham, but you prove it to us and maybe we’ll be able to help you to catch those who made them.

Then there’s this – “Rivals of KopTalk have not only been targeting myself, my mother (a widow), my son (6) and my daughter (13) but they have also targeted my paralysed cousin Lauren. A decision was made earlier this week to simply move Lauren’s website to another URL and restrict access to friends and family only as a result.”

Again, Oldham claims his six-year-old son and thirteen-year-old daughter have been “targetted”. Who by Oldham? Not by us, I guarantee it. You are their father, yet you only see them at weekends, yet you claim to still be with their mother. Has their been some previous action against you regarding their welfare? Certainly the way you continue to post their photos and details on your website, even using your daughter’s photo to plug your book, could be described by some as exploitation. Perhaps it’s time social services were warned about the way Dunk uses his children.

And if you don’t like your mum being part of the criticism of your site then you shouldn’t give her name and other details out as part of your “staff” and as a contact for people to go to when they want to pay thirty quid for your Gold Club. She’s paid to look after your site, and is a contact for your site. You even say that it’s her and Steve who have been locking out your paying customers. Don’t blame her if she’s not done it. And if she has, she deserves a complaint or two from people who are the victims of theft from the Oldham family.

The actions of the Oldhams relating to Lauren have been reported already to authorities, so it’s best I say no more on that issue. Until then there’s no need to meet those people personally, we’ll leave that to the authorities.

Stop saying “Rivals of KopTalk” as well Oldham – unless you consider this site a rival site. Is that what your site is now – a blog attacking a liar? That’s all this site is – a blog that shows people the truth about Duncan Oldham.
Can anyone see how this can be true? He says. “Website rivalry sadly exists, which is a shame considering all Reds should be one united family. I don’t class KopTalk as a rival to anyone, you won’t see me bad mouthing ANY other websites or communities – EVER.” How can it be true, in light of our cyber squatting article earlier? Certainly not if he wants all Reds to be a “united family”. Again, anyone who won’t follow the Duncan Oldham way is classed as a reject – “And the rejects?” is what he always says.

Oldham then says: “During the last few weeks some of these individuals have played on the following issues to try and have a pop at me: The death of 96 Liverpool fans”. He lists the other two issues about which we’ll not be talking again just yet. We are not “playing” on the issue. We are reporting the way Duncan Oldham shows complete disregard for that particular issue with his blatant support of the Sun. He even tried to slur Peter Crouch as part of his work for that newspaper. And I refer you back to the TLW article mentioned above for more on Duncan Oldham’s disregard for the victims of Hillsborough.

Has anyone else seen these? “They have also exchanged, distributed and manipulated photos of my 6 year old son, my 13 year old daughter and my late father. These photos have been freely available on this website for my friends to see etc but they have been altered and circulated for some kind of perverted reasons.” We’ve not.

Duncan published photos of his father last week, and I certainly recognised that as one he’s published before. He’s shown his site visitors photos of his daughter and son for years (he even used to have a section on Koptalk written by his daughter, and told people to keep things clean on his site for that reason. Now he has a porn section and porn advertising.) I personally have not seen any manipulated photos of his children, so who’s doing it? Until he can prove otherwise, nobody is doing anything with photos of his children. However, as we say, perhaps that’s a matter for the social workers of Scarborough and Newcastle. And what are these “perverted reasons” exactly Duncan? What could they be? I really am at a loss in that respect. I’d also urge Rupert to tell us again about Mr Oldham telling his step-brother Steve on Koptalk Radio about how he condoned the rape of girls under the age of 16. It’s certainly another point worth spelling out to those social service departments. And it may be just the tip of the iceberg.

Perhaps when the police seize those Koptalk computers soon they’ll find these emails: “Offers from let’s say ‘underworld’ readers to have them dealt with have been declined.. even though the emails have been humerous” Although I very much doubt there were any.

Now the person who (for one example) uses his wife’s miscarriage to earn himself sympathy whenever he likes says this – “There is no justification for trying to capitalise on extremely sensitive issues.” No, but ignoring sensitive issues so that you can read your favourite rag isn’t justified is it? “But if it keeps them amused talking and playing with photos of my children then so be it.” Prove it Oldham – you’ve got our email address. AND DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE THOSE FULL EMAIL HEADERS. Until you do, you’re a liar. But you knew that anyway.

Some defiance, understandably – “But I tell you this, I aint going anywhere. KopTalk will continue ticking on until the day my readers tell me to call time.” I think their rapidly reducing numbers are telling you something – don’t you? Another lie, according to figures we’ve seen – “This summer visitor numbers are up along with people supporting this site. Why the sudden interest in my book? I hadn’t been promoting it of late but they’re helping sales which is why I don’t want to comment too much as a lot of the internet myths will be answered in it when it comes out THIS season.” So have you taken a load more fivers in pre-orders then? You did say sales? I hope it’s going to be declared. If you mean interest then you’ll find people are extracting the urine.
It now seems that Duncan Oldham’s rant was said despite him being unconcerned – “I aint fussed” he says. And then – “It’s what happens when you don’t tolerate idiots and when you achieve things that they can only dream of.” First of all, you don’t tolerate people you describe as idiots – you ban anyone who has the remotest bit of dissent against you. And if you’d consider facing reality for just one short moment, I think you’ll find that most people would consider spending their days in a shed with their mother and step-brother even though they were now in their mid-thirties, wife left, kids can only be seen at weekends, as something they would never, ever, call a dream.

I like this one now – “The reason I’m posting this in the open is because they have access here. Sadly they haven’t got the guts to say what their usernames are, unlike myself who’s at KOPTALK HQ just about every day of the week. Come and visit us.” Of course Oldham – my username is XXXXX XX XXXX, and we also get contributions from YY YYYYYY YYYY and ZZZZZ ZZZ ZZZZZZ. And you’ll not take our access away will you, because you’re prepared to allow free speech?

As for meeting you, we’ve been waiting all week for you to go to the North West. We’d wanted to meet you at one of the airports. Somewhere before or after your meeting with Rick Parry. But you lied. You weren’t going to the North West. You weren’t meeting Mr Parry. And if we’d arranged to meet you, you’d have run away. A lot of people want to meet you – why not sort something out, nearer to Anfield. We can ask you our questions face to face then. In fact, why not at Anfield. Shall we book a meeting room there? You pay for it, we’ll be there. We’ll let you know numbers nearer the time. Book a big room though.

Another lie here – “It doesn’t hurt me, because if it did, I wouldn’t be here.” Oh it does Duncan, it does. Some of those close to you have told us how much it hurts you. Because “you” is your best friend. And again, this targetting nonsense – “but to target others is a bit sick and a bit gutless.” Who exactly have we “targetted”? Except you and your Koptalk “staff”? Talking of which – where’s the staff page you promised us with “Gianna” on it?

And try some of this yourself: “Don’t respond to them, don’t defend the site.. just ignore them.” And “Dunk knows best” – yes – best way to kill what could have been a good site.

And that’s where the problem lies really – Duncan Oldham turned what was on its way to becoming a very good site in the late nineties into a site which disgraces the Liverpool name. Just like he turned what could have been some long-awaited positive publicity into something extremely negative. Silly boy.

Koptalk get paid, they don’t pay

We’ve spoken before about the way Dunk likes to try and pretend he’s running some multi-million pound concern. In fact I think we probably mentioned it yesterday.

In reality, everything’s done on the cheap if he can get away with it. Steven and his mum don’t get paid for their work on the site (he still calls them staff), he has someone translating stuff for free (calls him the Koptalk professional translator) and has a member of his forum supplying him with the info for football feeds he uses on his Koptalk and Foot4Free sites. Does this member of his forum get paid? Doubt it, but he probably gets a free Gold Club membership for his troubles.
In fact that’s what you’ll get if you write a load of articles for Dunk. A free gold club membership. If you would have bought one anyway then I suppose it costs Dunk 30 quid in lost income. If you weren’t planning to buy one then it costs him nothing. Still, that’s the way Dunk works – you do, he profits.

And the equivalent of a Gold Club membership is available here too, free of charge.

Dunk KopTalk Editor
Free Gold Clubs sub on offer
#1545270 – Thu Jul 13 2006 12:24 PM

Anyone want to help compile some profiles on the current squad and former players?

AND / OR

Anyone want to submit some articles to boost our history section on the main site?

If so please email me editor@koptalk.com

Anyone that can provide some great content (if they have the time) will be given a free upgrade to the Gold Club for at least a year and beyond if they continue to assist etc.

I want to imporve the history section on koptalk.coN and I also want to get all the current squad’s profiles up to date. I simply don’t have the time.

It’s not of great importance to the site but if anyone wants to help submit articles by email there will be some rewards
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Dunk KopTalk Editor
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Re: Free Gold Clubs sub on offer [Re: tb2002]
#1545375 – Thu Jul 13 2006 01:16 PM

Quote:

Original profiles or compiled from various sources ?

Not lifted. Researched. Own opinions on strengths, weaknesses etc.

Is that a first? NOT LIFTED? Not stolen from elsewhere? Not copyright another website? Original? Well it’s not Dunkie doing it himself, is it? It’s nice to know that your hard work is not considered to of great importance too. Why doesn’t Dunk have time? He was going to disappear to Liverpool for a week this week (including the meeting he’d arranged with Rick Parry). What’s he done with all the time he’s freed up by not going on that trip?

Or was he never going in the first place? I know what my money’s on. Talking of money, or more to the point not paying it, Dunk’s decided to avoid paying a professional designer hundreds or even thousands of pounds to have a new ad designed. He’s decided instead that he’ll pay one of his users a few hundred instead. No he’s not, he’s offered a DVD. In a competition. Probably one of his own – he prefers watching his Newcastle ones nowadays anyway.

Anyone fancy doing one for him? Could be fun…

Dunk KopTalk Editor
Posts: 8355

COMPETITION: Design an ad
#1545061 – Thu Jul 13 2006 10:43 AM

Anyone out there fancy designing a KOPTALK ad?

All entries will be entered into a draw and the person who has their ad selected will receive a FREE LFC DVD of their choice.

The size needs to be: 105 x 155mm (Landscape)

The website url koptalk.coN needs to be included and/or the KopTalk logo (the one above top left).

You can include other artwork etc and/or a statement e.g. For everything LFC blah blah blah etc etc – you can fill the space with info or you can try the basic look – it’s your choice.

You can submit entries by emailing steve@koptalk.com – ideally these will be in PDF format.

The closing date is 23rd July. The winner will be announced on site and by email.

Tens of thousands will see the winning ad so make it good!

Your tasks blog-readers are to find out where these ads might be appearing (so we can save up to include our own maybe) and also to design some logos. Send some to us, in a format we can use, koptalk.insider @ gmail.com. To make it more fun for Dunk, send a competition entry in to him with some form of coded message in your “statement”. For example – “Bringing Us Liverpool Legends”, or “B.U.L.L” for short. Now he’ll have to check all the entries carefully, or risk looking silly when his ad comes out.

When we said above that Koptalk seem to have turned over a new leaf with regard to stealing content from elsewhere we obviously spoke too soon. Somebody had their post edited because it included a link to another site. A mod removed the link.

richt71 Moderator

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Posts: 11195
Loc: York
Re: Anfield Subsidance [Re: MadSeason]
#1545310 – Thu Jul 13 2006 12:47 PM Reply Quote

Quote:

Is Dunk going to sit on me for this??

No but you can be banned mate for posting such links.
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MadSeason Silver Member

Reged: Feb 28 2006
Posts: 90
Loc: Essex

Re: Anfield Subsidance [Re: richt71]
#1545327 – Thu Jul 13 2006 12:52 PM

Sorry, i didn’t realise.
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richt71 Moderator

Reged: Jul 09 2003
Posts: 11195
Loc: York
Re: Anfield Subsidance [Re: MadSeason]
#1545344 – Thu Jul 13 2006 01:01 PM
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Sorry, i didn’t realise.

No worries mate. Now you know. You can copy and paste the article. Just state from another site and don’t link.
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Does that not strike you as a little bit naughty Rich Tea? If it’s from another site it belongs to another site. It may actually be wrong to take it in the first place (depending on how much you take) but to take it and then not acknowledge the source? Wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s theft really. So if that’s in the AUP then Dunk is asking his members to steal for him. This may sound a little pedantic, but it’s true. Either don’t cut and paste stuff from elsewhere at all, or take it with an acknowledgement.

Rich Tea was the poor victim who Dunk used to convince his whole forum he had insider news from investors. Jeanette sent a text to Dunk, Dunk said it was from his insider people.

One of the reasons why Dunk is only interested in getting hold of stuff on the cheap is because he needs to use his dwindling funds on himself. His membership levels are dropping, but his poor, poor eyes aren’t getting any better. He wants a big monitor, and he want an expensive one too -

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PC Monitors – Anyone use anything HUGE?
#1545381 – 13/07/06 12:19 PM
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I currently use 19″ screens but I’d like to get something bigger. What about these flat screen tv’s that can be used as monitors? 26″/27″ for example?

Any experience?

That’s where all those thirty quids go, to helping Dunk view his photographs more clearly.

By the way, has anyone seen this new 18 year old he’s signed up? When she was still called Gianna she was going to feature on a “staff” page. Any signs yet, or is that as likely to happen as his meeting with Parry?

Domain name dodginess.

We’re working on updating the fixed bits of this blog, under the “READ ME” heading at the top.

One we’ve just added is the part on Dunk’s habit of taking domain names similar to those of his rivals.

See Cyber Squatter for more about one of Dunk’s many less desirable habits.

See Whois Search for michaelshields.co.uk for proof that Dunk takes anything he can get his hands on.

And if you wondered why Dunk’s next to Michael Barrymore at the top of this blog, it’s because of this -

Whois info for, michaelbarrymore.tv:

Registrant:
 CABOODLE NETWORK
 PO Box 556
 WALLSEND, TYNE-AND-WEAR NE28 7WZ
 UK

Domain name: MICHAELBARRYMORE.TV

Administrative Contact:
    OLDHAM, DUNCAN  office@koptalk.info
    PO Box 556
    WALLSEND, TYNE-AND-WEAR NE28 7WZ
    UK
    +44.202.909822

ktpie1.jpg

And if you go to the website for www.est1892.co.uk but mistype the url, ending it “.org.uk”, “.net” or “.org”, you’ll be likely to see something like this – (click the thumbnail for a full-sized image).

www.koptalkblog.GONE

After setting up the Koptalk Blog just to try and get back at us, Koptalk now seem to have decided they don’t want to “Blog That!”

The catchphrase “Blog That!” from Duncan Oldham had become almost as common as “Where’s my book?” from visitors to his site. Now it seems Dunk doesn’t want to bother. His domain koptalk blog dot com now points to his so-called insider site.

Not everyone’s happy -

Sachi U-19 Player Posts: 104
Age: 23 Loc: Mauritius
12-07-06 09:44 PM – Post#264897

hey guys, great job on the website… jus a quick question.. i can’t
access the koptalk blog anymore… was always fun to see what y’all up
to! keep up the good work, bless!

If you know Sachi, let him know that the real Koptalk Blog is still alive, at www.koptalk-insider.com.

You know how Dunk had big news from his sources in May that investment was about to happen? Then he had to pretend it would be in July instead? He’s given up on it now. He says at the end of an article quoting how Liverpool have (another) deadline looming for grant money to be approved, that “KOPTALK has for some time had the opinion that the new stadium will never materialise, especially with the club having failed to secure any form of investment.”

Slow down Koptalk – go and get those tapes…

Whenever Duncan Oldham has one of “those” moments the stuff he spouts about comes thick and fast. Emphasis on the word ‘thick’.

He wants to make Koptalk sound the way he imagines, in his own heart, it really is. An important part of the LFC internet community, a credit to the club, if at times a little controversial. The way it could have been in fact, had he not chosen to attack the club so often, not chosen to support the Sun, not chosen to fleece his visitors for the sake of himself and his family.

Just before the World Cup, Oldham claimed to have a tape of Peter Crouch giving an exclusive to The Sun, and he said he would use it to end Crouch’s career, as and when he felt like it. Eventually he said he’d said it as a joke, one of his favourite defences when found lying. In fact a defence I’ve heard used by many a young child when they were caught out lying – “I was just tricking you” or “I was only kidding”. With children you let it go, move on, knowing they’ve learned a lesson in that little incident.

Dunk added the reference to having a “tape” because he was getting some stick from people who didn’t believe that Crouch had spoken exclusively to the Sun. Well now Dunk had better get some proof out once again – look at his latest “exclusive”.

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Cisse says thanks and goodbye
#1544329 – 12/07/06 09:38 PM

French hitman Djibril Cisse has taken time out from his busy day to send a personal message for the Liverpool fans who have supported him since his arrival at Anfield.

On the day he was officially paraded at Marseille after completing his loan move, Cisse asked us to thank you for helping him “keep his head up”.

Speaking exclusively to KOPTALK, Cisse said: “I have enjoyed my time at Anfield… it was an honour to wear the famous Liverpool jersey.

“But now I have to concentrate on getting myself fit and back playing again with Marseille. Then we will see what happens.

“I would like to thank the Liverpool fans and especially the readers of KOPTALK for their words of encouragement.

“I will not forget the fans and I will never forget the city of Liverpool which is in my heart.”

Now I’m prepared to give Dunk some of the benefit of the rather large amount of doubt I have about his story.

I know that yesterday the official Marseille website, www.om.net, was talking about how fans of Marseille could send an email to the site to ask questions of Cisse. A bit of Dunk’s customary exaggeration to om.net and no doubt they might believe that Koptalk is the voice of all Liverpool fans. In the end, Cisse would have been asked the question (I think it was on Marseille’s own TV channel) and of course would have answered it. Exclusively? I doubt it. Speaking to Koptalk? I doubt it. Maybe he even used to read Koptalk? Possible, but he may also start reading this blog now too.

So Dunk, if Cisse gave an exclusive interview to Koptalk, and spoke to you (or Steve on the infamous mobile) let’s hear the tape. Let’s see some proof. If he just answered a question in response to an email you sent to the official Marseille site, admit it. It’s still quite impressive, I don’t deny that – just not as impressive as you try to imply.

You see when Dunk’s not telling outright lies, he’s often exaggerating his claims.

And if he did it less often, we’d have more time to get this site a little better organised…

P.S. I wonder how long it will now take Dunk to claim he’s turned down first refusal on Cisse’s Lord of the Manor of Frodsham home and title?