Fake and missing LFC memorabilia?

by Rupert Insider

A number of our readers have told us that they are uneasy about the authenticity of LFC memorabilia they bought or ordered from Koptalk in the last few years. It includes footballs and shirts. We want to help them establish the truth.

If you ordered memorabilia from Koptalk in the last 3-4 years please tells us what happened. You can write in strict confidence or post publicly in the Comments section. By sharing your experiences you may find out if they were unique or part of a pattern. It may be your contribution that encourages others to write in.

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The Sales

Koptalk sold the memorabilia as being authentically signed by individual players or the entire team. Because of this they fetched prices up to £500 per item, perhaps more.

They were sold in a variety of ways:

• promoted on the Koptalk website:
• promoted by email offers sent by Koptalk to individual members:
• by a Koptalk auction on E-bay.

Some of the sales were said to be in aid of charity – for Lauren, whom Duncan Oldham claimed was his cousin, or for other appeals. Because sales were for charity, bidders tended to bid more than they normally would.

Causes of Unease

The unease arises from a number of cumulative factors:

• Some of the memorabilia was sent without certificates of authentication. In cases were the recipient repeatedly insisted on a certificate one was belatedly produced and signed by Steve, the 15 or 16-year-old (as he was then) step-brother of Oldham or by Oldham, himself:

• In some cases no invoice was provided and there were other oddities about the transaction:

• In some cases an item was offered at auction as a one-off. After Koptalk announced that it had been sold and delivered to the highest bidder, it sent private letters to other bidders offering them an identical item if they would repeat their failed bid.

• In some cases, the money was paid but the item not delivered. Koptalk has not responded to enquiries from the buyer.

• There was no satisfactory explanation of where and how Koptalk obtained the memorabilia and when it was signed.

• In some cases there are questions about the authenticity of the signatures. These were reinforced when Oldham displayed a photograph of a shirt which he claimed Dirk Kuyt signed in his presence “To Dunk”. But some readers who are experienced in these matters think the photograph has been doctored. While that shirt has not been offered for sale, as far as we know, the possible doctoring of the photo is troubling. Click for the Kuyt shirt story.

• Oldham has never published accounts for the Lauren charity and not everyone got a receipt for their donation. He directed that donations be made out to Koptalk or to his mother’s personal account. He is the sole owner of Koptalk and appears to mix business, personal and charitable revenues and expenditures. He has produced no public accounting of the revenues from the sales of the memorabilia for charity.

• Some buyers have come to learn that Oldham used a football Usenet group to sell illegal Sky satellite cards using a false name, Del Johnson, and was accused by many of his customers of not delivering them and was investigated about it by Trading Standards in North Yorkshire. They have also learned that he has taken deposits for three years on a book he has still not written entitled Anfield Exposed. And they are aware of false representations he has made about direct dealings he said he had with executives of LFC, and other matters that raise questions about his reliability.

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We ask those who have already written to us on this topic before the last two weeks, to write again. If possible give us hard information such as dates and prices and photos or links if you have them. If you give us permission to publish any of your information we would remove any detail that could reveal your identity.

Please let us know if any particular item you bought was sold by Koptalk for the benefit of the Lauren or any other charity.

Similarly, if you have subsequently proven the authenticity of any item you bought and were satisfied with the transaction, let us know that, too. We want to be fair.

We appreciate that not everyone would want to pursue a complaint even if our investigation does reveal something wrong. In that case we would write to you privately to see what you want to do.

Photo: Duncan Oldham of Koptalk and the cover of his phantom book.

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LFC kids don’t want gifts from this candy man.

by Rupert Insider

Koptalk is dominated right now with threads about Duncan Oldham’s latest publicity stunt – an appeal for cash and gift vouchers to allow him to waddle into our dear Alder Hey like the creepy candy man he is.

Alder Hey Children’s hospital is one of Liverpool’s finest institutions. I spent far too much time in it as a kid with acute infections and broken bones, as did some of my brothers and sister. I also know from family history how critical it’s Emergency Ward was in the post-war years when the National Health Service was in its infancy. So I know a lot about the deep affection in which it is held by the people of Liverpool.

One of the bonuses for the kids who are patients there is that LFC and Everton players visit regularly – just to chat or to bring gifts. This is especially true at Christmas.

The last thing any young LFC supporter or their family would want is a visit from Duncan Oldham from the SUN-loving Koptalk business.

There’s no excuse for it. He’s not from Liverpool. If he wants to dispense other peoples charity at Christmas let him start at home in Wallsend, Tyne-and-Wear where his website is or in Scarborough, North Yorkshire where his kids live with his estranged wife.

We all know how he has used his own young kids to promote his business through the years. It’s one of his fall-backs when he is in trouble. Now he’s proposing to use our Liverpool kids.

I can already hear the howls of protest. Rupert the Scrooge denying kids Christmas presents.

I recognise the genuine generosity and trust of those who are considering a donation to this appeal. But ask yourself, why Oldham, why Koptalk?

He has nothing to do with Liverpool – he is a stranger to its people and culture and football clubs. His S*n-loving site is an insult.

If you want to contribute you can send gifts directly to the hospital. And you will have the pleasure of receiving a personal thank you from those looking after the kids or from the kids themselves. Why spoil it by making it part of Oldham’s publicity campaign for his site?

And can you really trust this dodger with your money? We still haven’t seen an accounting for the last appeal he ran for a kid – Lauren , who he claimed was his cousin.

(At this point I became aware that Insider Insider has just posted his thoughts on the subject. He has drawn out some concerns about the lack of transparency in Oldham’s handling of other appeals. So I’d refer you to that. Scroll back to: Concern as ticket tout tries to collect money for charity.

Concern as ticket tout tries to collect money for charity.

Dear, dear me. Duncan Oldham can’t stop himself can he? Now that he’s turfed out his last remaining non-paying members he’s feeling safe. He thinks he can get away with a fresh charity appeal being paid straight into his paypal account. Now Dunk’s stupid, as we’ve proven week-in week-out, but surely even he’s not as stupid as to pocket money for himself from his latest “appeal”. He’s looking for some attention I think.

You’ll recall if you were reading this blog in the summer that we got more and more correspondence from people who were concerned about donations they and others had made to “charity”. Duncan Oldham had put various messages on his various forums asking for money for his cousin who had become disabled. There was never any doubt that his cousin had taken ill, just doubts that she’d ever got the money that had been collected for her.

Duncan Oldham would beg for money from his users to pay her parents’ mortgage, which they did. Duncan Oldham would beg for money from his users to pay for new equipment for her. His users were, in the main, decent folk who genuinely felt concerned. They paid thousands of pounds, either as donations or in payment for so-called merchandise. (We are going to come back to the merchandise issue in another post).

Some users started to realise that Duncan Oldham had been pleading poverty one minute (borrowing money off his mum for one thing or another) yet the next was bragging about upgrading his Merc. He bought numerous huge HDTV sets and became a subscriber to Sky HD – twice. Yet his readers were paying money to this cause.

The suspicion about the cause came from the way that money had to be paid. In the early days, he asked to have the money paid into the Koptalk PayPal account, fair enough as a short-term measure. Later on he started a website, asking for the money to be paid straight to his mum. “Cheques should be made payable to J Oldham” – and the address given was the Koptalk “head office”, their shed in Wallsend.

We made a few references to it, and then someone who was contributing to the blog at the time did some digging. He was told by the charities commission that was highly illegal, and that he should report it to the police. He did – then put it onto the blog. Within hours Duncan Oldham had pulled the site. And to this day, we are yet to see even one small piece of proof that all this money went to the cause its donators had intended. As far as we know, Lauren did not get one penny of the money collected for her.

So when I saw this morning that Dunk had launched his new appeal my heart sank. Were more people going to be ripped off? Was more money going to be taken for charity but used for Dunk’s own purposes? It’s nearly Christmas – is he buying his kids stuff with this money?

To be honest I fully expect he’ll give all this money to Alder Hey. He’s being watched, and this is a publicity stunt to make himself look good. Sorry stupid – it makes you look even more of a cnut (© Koptalk) than ever.

What pisses me off too is the way he’s gone about it.

First of all, look at the subject he chose for the announcement on his forum. “*+*+*+*+*+* READ ME – READ ME *+*+*+*+*+*” – stands out somewhat, don’t you think. Anyway, read on…

#41590 – Yesterday at 02:46 PM
*+*+*+*+*+* READ ME – READ ME *+*+*+*+*+*
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For Christmas 2006 we want to try and raise some cash from all of you to help put a smile on the faces of some of the ill children at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool this Christmas.

We would like to buy a XBOX 360 gaming console for them and hopefully a game or two and if we can stretch to it, some kind of colour tv. When we have previously spoken to Alder Hey they have said that the older kids tend to get forgotten hence our decision of gift.

Now we’re not sure how we will collect donations for this at this time but we are open to suggestions. We do not want to accept cash, cheques or card payments for obvious reasons. Providing everyone who chips in posts on this thread what they donated and how then we should be able to track things without any question of any wrongdoing (you know what they’re like!) (What who are like? You see Duncan, most of your remaining visitors don’t know about this blog, and don’t know about the accusations of theft from charity that we have made against you. If they did, most of them would be long gone. And none of them would trust you with an old bent coin, let alone tenners and twenties. And you can’t accept card payments because you’ve never been able to get accepted by the banks to get the merchant account you’d need (or whatever it’s called these days). I don’t see how people chipping in (via PayPal) then posting their donation details differs from people chipping in (by other means) then posting their donation details. Whichever way they pay, there’s no difference. You’ve got to make sure Alder Hey get what your users claim to have donated. So this rouses my first suspicions.)

You could write cheques payable directly to the hospital but they would have to buy the gear and we think it would be nice if some members from here could take the gifts in for the site collectively. (That’s crap too. What if people can’t pay by other means, say they’ve not got a credit card or debit card at the moment? Would it hurt to accept cheques – payable to the appeal – alongside other methods? No, it wouldn’t, if this appeal was all it claimed to be.) We don’t want any publicity, this is just the members here and us trying to do something right. (No publicity? Well at one point I thought that may be true, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Then I woke up and realised that you never do something for nothing. Never. Every so-called charidee donation you’ve pledged (or made if they are lucky) has been done amidst as much publicity as possible. Hasn’t it, Mr Manchester United?)

Sadly they cannot accept second hand goods because of hygiene and safety. We propose buying goods from Amazon or another similar chain. Again, you the community can decide the best way and we’ll do it. (Now this is where I get some more suspicions. Dunk has made it clear very recently that he does OK out of Amazon. Amazon pay “associates” in varying means, one of which is gift vouchers to be used on Amazon. Dunk gets his payment in gift vouchers, he told us last quarter. So – is he trying to turn those vouchers into cash? Say he gets £300 into his Pay Pal account, all he has to do then is buy £300 worth of stuff from Amazon with his gift vouchers and he can pocket the cash.)

Maybe we could individually buy vouchers for a national store and do something that way? (Again, this seems dubious – maybe he (or another family member) also sells store vouchers – not through Farepak – and has told all his customers that they won’t be getting any vouchers this year, even though he’s got thousands of pounds worth safely packed up in his sock-drawer. Just a theory you understand, but would it surprise you? Again, it turns vouchers into cash for him. And one other thing – why is it vouchers ok but cheques aren’t? See Oldham, your stupidity trips you up every single time. Cheques or vouchers – the staff still have to go out and buy something. The kids can’t exactly nip down to Argos one afternoon can they?)

First of all we’d like you to respond to this thread with a pledge of any amount that you would be willing to chip in. We need to get this arranged as quickly as possible so please, especially if you are a parent, support this effort.

So he wants no publicity? Well what the hell is this all about then? This was posted today…

#42559 – 23 minutes 57 seconds ago
Would you like to visit Alder Hey with us?
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Ok people. As part of our Christmas appeal for Alder Hey, I’d like to see who would like to attend when we take in the presents for the kids.

We have no set date as yet as I want to get the vouchers and donations in first so that we can tell them what we have managed to do for them.

At that point we will ask them for a date that is helpful to them.

If you’re supporting the appeal and would like to pencil yourself in to attend with us, please reply to this thread.

Hopefully this date will be prior to Christmas but it really depends on the hospital.

What the hell is that if it’s not publicity? If he wanted no publicity he’d make sure the donations would be delivered quietly and with no fuss. He wants publicity. He wants to turn vouchers into cash. There’s probably more to it than this, but he’s up to something.

On a side note, his latest signature was snipped out of the above post. He’s now using this as a signature…

“I have derived continued benefit from criticism at all periods of my life, and I do not remember any time when I was ever short of it,” – Winston Churchill (1914)

Well we’re pretty sure Duncan has been getting plenty of benefits over the years, during his pretending-to-be-skint phases.

One other motive I’m concerned he might have is that he is about to let Koptalk go bust. He’s going to get this money in now, then let Koptalk die. He’ll pocket the money himself if he can swing it that way.

Whatever his motive is, it’s not worth trusting him. His track record and his continued lack of transparency over the Lauren situation makes that the case.

Obviously there’s no way I can collect anything for the hospital, but I have done the next best thing. I’ve set up a page on the “Just Giving” website and the money will go to the “Alder Hey Imagine Appeal”. Not quite the same cause, because this goes to the hospital, but important nonetheless. Because “Just Giving” are run properly and all above board, you can be sure that they will give the money to the charity. And they have the added bonus of the “Gift Aid” feature, meaning UK donors will have their donation boosted by 28%. Dunk can’t offer that, because he’s not registered. In fact he’s probably breaking the law, although I can’t be certain of that.

If you want to donate, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/notdunk and you can donate as much as you feel you want to. I don’t get to touch the money at all of course, and if you use that page it should show you how much has been raised so far. You might be one of the first.

Alder Hey is a good cause – just not when the money has to pass through the hands of that ticket tout from Wallsend.

SUN “not sorry”. Boycott continues except on Koptalk.

by Rupert Insider

Today the Liverpool Daily Post has published what it claims is an EXCLUSIVE story that shows that the Hillsborough Justice Campaign was right.

The editor of the SUN at the time, Kelvin Mackenzie, is now on record as saying he is not only not sorry for what his rag said but admits that his apology back then was insincere, forced out of him by his boss, Rupert Murdoch, and he now takes it back.

Some have criticised this blog for re-hashing criticism of the S*n’s lies about Hillsborough in order to get at Duncan Oldham because he has personally promoted the S*n, taken a copy daily, used its stories on his site and recently took paid banner advertisements from it including one that said “We Love the Sun” and, in general, done what he could to use his site to undermine the Liverpool based boycott of the S*n.

Let sleeping dogs lie our critics said. Some of them even went so far as to say they’re sure that all those involved at the S*n regretted what they had said at the time.

That’s what Oldham said, too. He refused to promote the Hillsborough Justice Campaign because he said it was about “politics” and the people involved were difficult to deal with. His site would not be part of the boycott.

What he meant was that the HJC insisted that the S*n’s half-asssed apology was not sincere. The boycott would continue until they received a genuine apology on behalf of the 96 dead and the many injured.

But today’s story proves that the HJC was right.

Its only 2.45 pm at the time of writing, Oldham might need another day before he decides how to comment – besides he’s busy cracking fart jokes about the name of LFC’s new stadium and disscussing the relative merits of Dominos’ and Pizza Hut in the Shoutbox.

But a few members of his site have put in their two cents. One of them, FrodshamRed commented : “ You have to be some sort of jerk to want to be Editor of The Sun – which is basically a downmarket comic claiming to be a Newspaper.”

Why not have a word with Oldham, FrodshamRed, about his practice of advertising the S*n and trying to break the boycott by being the only LFC-related site to publish the S*n “stories” after altering their headlines to make them look like original “Koptalk News” in order to get them to the top of News Now?

Comp for tickets could help Reds fans spread the word

The night before last I managed to post on here about the departure of Johhny H without realising his exit had already been covered by Sawyer Insider. After days of reading all about coffee and TV (mainly coffee though) I’d not wanted to waste any time in getting the news onto the blog. I went straight to the page for new posts, and only saw Sawyer’s post later.

Tonight I nearly did it again. Two juicy bits of Duncanisms in one night. Dunk thinks his site is big, but he doesn’t base it on hits, he bases it on the fact that we blog about him. Before I could write something about how he got it wrong in so many ways, I found Sawyer Insider had already got it covered. All I can add is that Dunk says he doesn’t “see players as heros now” – well we knew this already Oldham. A few weeks back you were saying you’d be happy if Anfield was knocked down and replaced by an Asda, and that rather than being a Liverpool fan you are just a neutral, or impartial. Maybe that’s what it is. Maybe what’s happened is that you supported Leeds as a kid, Liverpool in your early twenties, Newcastle in your late twenties, and now as you head towards your mid-thirties you’ve given up pretending and don’t support anyone.

Thanks to Sawyer for getting that on the site tonight though, I hope everyone enjoyed it.

The other bit of classic Oldham pea-brained stupidity for today was when he shot himself in the foot yet again. In fact he blew both his legs off this time. All our recent efforts to persuade his honorary members to leave his site were wasted. We didn’t need to say a word. He’s done it for us. Or at least he claims he has. Thanks to Rupert this time for spotting it and getting onto the site. The main contributions on his site these days are from Honorary Members, but now he says he’s ditched them all unless they’ve paid. Then again, he’s claimed he’s done this before, so why’s he doing it again? Was it bullshit last time? Is it bullshit this time? Are the honorary members really being removed? (It’s not quite true of course to say honorary members are the only members contributing heavily to his site. The real heavy posters now are Dunk, Steve and Katie.)

I’ve said a few times now that Duncan Oldham does not have season tickets for Anfield. He claims he has them, but he hasn’t. He did have them once, he used to go in the “Flat Iron” near the ground because people have told me they used to see him – but that was years ago. He doesn’t dare show his face there now of course.

So either he’s dumped the tickets altogether, or he touts the chance to use them just like he touts certain cup tickets. The waiting list for season tickets is long – people will pay to jump the queue, and Dunk likes the idea of people who’ll pay over the odds for things.

At the moment though he can’t do that too openly. He can’t possibly let his tickets go through an auction on Koptalk or eBay like he’s done in the past. If he’s got season tickets (and it’s a big “if”) then he sold those secretly. For cup tickets he’s decided to give them away in “competitions”. And the poor winner of this latest one, for a Carling Cup tie, gets to sit with Katie. Yes, Katie…

COMPETITION: Go to the Arsenal match with Katie!

Fancy attenting the Liverpool v Arsenal match with us (free) on Tuesday 19th December (7.45pm)? Ok.. well read on.

JMG went to the last match with Steve but this time we’re going to send Katie and Steve although the winner will be sat with Katie only as Steve will be in one of the boxes as he has his own invite. Now she’s only 18 so you have to behave yourself if you win!

The last winner (JMG) flew in from Sweden and Steve picked him up from Manchester airport, so if you are coming from overseas, we might be able to assist in collecting you and dropping you off.

Now to enter this competition all you have to do is predict the time of the first goal – by either side – in minutes and seconds from the match between Liverpool and Galatasaray on 5th December. In the event of no goal we will go by the first corner (the exact second the player takes it).

Your entry will look like this:

xx minutes xx seconds

The winner will receive a free match ticket, free programme, free slap up meal and drinks (from the chip shop) and our excellent company ;\)

All you need to do is reply to this thread. We will post the winning time after the match is played and it’s up to you to work out if you’re a winner as it took ages last time! If you win, shout up within 24 hours or we’ll move down the list.

Katie has tried to limit the age to male under 25’s only but we’re not having any of that

Good luck!

This is where all you current Koptalk members familiar with this blog come in. Enter the competition! Even if you can’t go. Then if you win it, either you or someone who’s willing to go in your place can pass information to Katie (and Steve) about why their fat boss is best to be avoided. If a blog-reader wins, we’ll be able to sort out something for the pair of them to read. Something that might make them stop and think. Steve’s missing out on getting any kind of real job by sitting in a shed answering phone calls from people Dunk’s upset. And now Katie’s doing the same. If you remember about when she was first set to join Koptalk it was as a moderator on evenings, and as a locker-outer at the same time. She was doing this part-time to fit in around college. Well she’s full-time now, college has obviously not worked out for her. Has working for Koptalk caused that?

So – enter the competition and if you win, get in touch with us and we’ll find a way of getting the word to Katie and Steve. If they know full well that they are a key part in Duncan Oldham’s continual frauds (especially Steve, who is always the one with his name against things when there’s any heat from anywhere) then that’s their look-out. But, and I mean this, I don’t think they actually realise what they are a part of. I don’t think Steve realises that he’s in line for a possible criminal conviction if victims decide to push Koptalk over various thefts they’ve been victims of. Yes Steve – a criminal record awaits you if you don’t separate yourself from Koptalk. Ditch Dunk.

Another reason to enter the comp? Well once we know the seat numbers for the tickets we can quickly report Duncan Oldham to the club for breaching the rules on giving tickets away as a competition prize as an enticement to join his pay site.

So what else has been happening on Koptalk? Has Dunk got any news for us Liverpool supporters? Sort of. He read this on the sports pages of his local paper, maybe even on his other favourite club’s website. A Newcastle player has had a car crash…

#41340 – Today at 10:59 AM
Liverpool fan takes out striker
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A Liverpool fan was yesterday involved in a road accident with Newcastle United striker Albert Luque.

The player’s £80,000 Porsche was wrecked when a lorry kitted out with Liverpool flags and shirts ploughed into it.

Neither driver was seriously injured.

That was in the news section would you believe? The bit of the site he’s supposed to use to report Liverpool news! Tomorrow on Koptalk – Cilla Black fan trips over loose paving slab near Tyne Bridge.

So what else can we learn as paying members of the worst football pay-site in Britain? We can learn that Duncan Oldham, its owner, is feeling sorry for himself. Again…

Reds to get relegated or Reds to win Champions League
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If you criticise the side it means you want Rafa out or you play Championship Manager.

If you praise the side you’re looking through rose tinted specs.

Is there a central viewpoint?

Why if someone has a different view to you do you them try to put them down without listening to them? It doesn’t make sense.

We win a game and we’re world beaters, we draw or lose a game and we’re going down. It seems like people use the opposite viewpoint to try and put down someone.

I think our league situation is a crisis by Liverpool FC’s standards. It is not a crisis for clubs around the same points because they’re supposed to have different standards to us.

If we’re a mid table side or only seen as a top 5 side, then our league position is acceptable. If we’re going to retain our historic standards then anything outside the top 2 is a crisis. I say top two because we have to be realistic and look at Chelsea’s wealth so I’ll say top 2.

Now because I have this viewpoint doesn’t mean I want Rafa out. It doesn’t mean I feel we’re going down or that the season won’t be a success somewhere along the way. What it means is I’m a fan that’s really concerned about our league form. I also acknowledge that everyone connected to the club is concerned and I also accept that there is no magic wand.

I’m not paid a few million each year to find the answers or to put in the performances but as a fan, surely all of us are entitled to voice either a positive or negative view providing it’s done so sensibly.

Nobody’s had a pop at me mind, I’m just defending those members who are made to feel like **** just because they’re prepared to speak up about a non-acceptable league position and also those members who don’t want to hang (insert LFC employee name here).

So what Dunk’s saying is that people have been falling out with him.

Maybe someone had been taking the piss out of a member like this next one. “NICK1969″ joined in June and now wants to spread this sort of bullshit. His sixth post in five months and it’s a big lie. To be fair to him he may have been told this by someone who he trusts. Stop trusting him Nick. Alternatively it’s just Dunk spreading the shit again using one of his aliases…

#41194 – Today at 09:12 AM
New Ground – The Esso Stadium
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A rumour from last night that I heard is that the new stadium will be sponsored by ESSO and work will start second week in January – source head groundsmen?

Anyone care to deny or confirm if they have heard this or do we put it down as another rumour?
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#41198 – Today at 09:14 AM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: NICK1969]
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I used to think we might have a sponsored stadium but i don’t think our chairman would do that to us.
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#41215 – Today at 09:31 AM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: Todda]
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That depends if our chairman is a rich Dubai based oil magnate!
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#41234 – Today at 09:39 AM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: Sckair]
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Damn it, I’ll have to see if any of the guys I know at Exxon have heard anything!
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#41265 – Today at 09:58 AM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: robp]
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It will probably be the Dubai International Capital Stadium, as they are the likely investors, or DICS for short.
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#41290 – Today at 10:16 AM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: Sckair]
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I meant i don’t think Moores would welcome an invesment that will piss off every liverpool fan around.

If they call it The Esso stadium, or the DICS stadium ther will be alot of unhappy chappys.
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#41306 – Today at 10:31 AM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: Todda]
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“whats in a name?A rose by any other name …….”
What would it matter what the stadium is officially called ,
Theres no chance on gods earth that the official name is what it will be called by the fans.
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#41408 – Today at 12:05 PM Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: TommySmith]
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Originally Posted By: TommySmith
It will probably be the Dubai International Capital Stadium, as they are the likely investors, or DICS for short.

I for one wouldn’t be happy about our stadium being named DICS!!!
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#41480
Re: New Ground – The Esso Stadium [Re: Shaya]
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The Fray Bentos Anfield Stadium.
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Oh that’s hilarious Dunk, so funny. It doesn’t make anyone laugh but you, you moron. The “DICS” thing is amusing, but not your tired old “jokes” about pies. And also you’ll find that it’s not your crap “jokes” people have paid for on the investment front – it’s information they want. But you’ve got none, you don’t have a clue. Their request for anyone being able to “confirm or deny” this fell on deaf ears.

This is the closest Dunk is to investment information. He even puts a title of “INVESTMENT EXCLUSIVE: The next LFC chairman” against it. But it’s all a “joke”. Designed to get people looking, but as always they will have been disappointed by what they see. Not an exclusive, not even a funny “joke”.

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INVESTMENT EXCLUSIVE: The next LFC chairman
Dunk
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I can exclusively reveal that the following video is that of our new chairman, providing everything goes to plan. You will need audio to fully appreciate the benefits of what he’ll bring to the club.

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Craig Gold Member
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I don’t get it \:\(
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RED11 Gold Member
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Loc: Left Field

can’t open it – who/what is it?
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Kop_5 Honorary Member
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the potential investors might be the arab group,so we would get a arabian chairman,have a read in the investment thread
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KOPTALK.COM Administrator Team Member
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDBAu7lw9Zg&eurl= (The video he’s posted for his “joke”)
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TommySmith Gold Member
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Brilliant.
This is a big hint as to who is winning the takeover battle methinks. (No Tommy it isn’t. Dunk does not know anything about the “takeover battle”. It’s a shite joke from him. Please wake up and see what you are a victim of!)
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no hint, just trying to make people smile \:\) (As always, you only make people smile when you don’t intend to thicko. Your attempt at a “joke” seems to have backfired. Again.)
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Well don’t!

You know that all you need to do is fart and someone will take that as a sign that Glade Air Freshener will be our sponsor next season! (That’s because so many members still believe Duncan Oldham has inside knowledge. And I say “so many”, but how many is it really? Do you still believe him Dave? Just because you are from Wigan, the renowned home of “pie-eaters”, doesn’t mean you have to blindly follow the pie eater himself. Wake up – count how many exlusives you got this summer on transfers for example. Reading what you’ve put I get the feeling you’ve also seen through Dunk – I hope so, because I’ve read some good stuff from you in the past.)
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af Honorary Member (I heard a rumour that “af” had joined another site – est1892. If true then this is good news for “af”, it means he’s got a chance of seeing what’s going on for himself, not what Dunk claims is going on.)
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I never heard of Glade, is he or she any rich?
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#40463 – Yesterday at 01:18 PM Re: INVESTMENT EXCLUSIVE: The next LFC chairman [Re: Dave100]
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Originally Posted By: Dave100
Well don’t!

You know that all you need to do is fart and someone will take that as a sign that Glade Air Freshener will be our sponsor next season!

Sorry boss ;\) (At last an apology from Duncan Oldham. Although he’s not really sorry. And it’s not for any of the things we’ve exposed about him. Pity really, an apology will go a long way towards building bridges for him, but he’s too arrogant to do that. His ego won’t let him “lose” any battles. He still thinks having just the leftovers of a once popular site is “winning”.)
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Dave in shock KopTalk takeover \:o
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No probs. Don’t let it happen again! \:\)
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Originally Posted By: af Dave in shock KopTalk takeover \:o

Sssshhhhhhhhh! Keep it quiet! It’s not a done deal yet!

I’ll trow out some spin first via Zico then do the deal on the quiet!

I value Koptalk at 3000 Steak and Kidney Pies but the big man is holding out for 10,000 pies, 3,000 pasties and a vanilla slice!

On yeah, and he also still wants me to build that Takeaway adjoining Koptalk Head Quarters as part of the deal! He got planning permission for it 5 years ago but couldn’t be bothered doing anything else with it since! \:D
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Dunk, that’s brilliant..

However, does this mean the Dubai will win the takeover?

or you were just joking? (Porch – when I first read your comment I felt so so sorry for you. You’re probably one of the few on Koptalk who’ve not seen the blog and don’t know about other sites. You probably really do think that Duncan Oldham chats to Rick Parry a few times a week and gets texts from Rafa Benitez. He doesn’t of course, doesn’t even have a gateman on his payroll as he often claimed. But your post made Dunk make a characteristic stupid mistake. See his reply…)
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Dunk Administrator KopTalk.com
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Sorry Porch, I’m only messing mate, I have no idea \:\) (SEE! Duncan, we know you’ve got no idea. We know you are clueless. We know you’ve no contacts. We just haven’t often heard you admit it. Now stop bullshitting and go into more detail as part of an apology to your remaining members. You never know, they might stay with you. It’s the only hope you’ve got now, because every single day more and more of them are learning the truth about you. The blog knows best?)

Look who’s here – Zico! Yes, the current holder of the title of second-biggest bullshitter on Koptalk…

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Met Steve Morgan tthis week
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Met him as part of my business. Reminded me what he’s like and what people on here think.

He get’s a lot of stick on KT but let me tell you, he started Redrow with a £5k loan and must be nearly a £ billionaire now – talk about self made. He is a stickler for perfection. He won’t accept anything less – ask the contractors who built his new house in Cheshire !!! Rumour has it they haven’t made any money out of it as he’s had them back and forth demanding perfection. Ask his former employees at Redrow if they rue the day he left – the answer is a resounding yes.

Ask yourself why the name is REDrow, why his son’s first name and his jet both have ‘Red’ in their names and why the offices of his new company, Harrow estates – are decked out……in red. I have never met a more avid supporter. If you met him, you’d find him an opinionated but humble yet determined man. He may not be involved in the successful bidder but, for those who think he’s a big mouth who knows nothing, you are so wrong. respect to the fella. I like him !!
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Dunk Administrator KopTalk.com
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I agree entirely. Self made. Total respect due. His mistake is he cares.
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Every time I think of Steve Morgan, I think of his wife at that AGM a few years ago.

Can’t seem to like him since.
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Dunk Administrator KopTalk.com
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Ah come on. She was defending her husband. You can’t judge someone by their wife or girlfriend \:\)

While it may have been embarrassing to him, it was just emotions spilling over through a very stressful period (in time, not period as in her… oh it doesn’t matter).
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And with that, once again completely awful “joke” from Duncan Oldham, I bring this entry to a close.

Don’t forget – enter the competition for a ticket for the Arsenal game!