Desperate Dunk Re-Opens the KopTalk Free Forums

KopTalk was originally conceived by Colin Seaman as a virtual Kop, a place on the internet where Liverpool FC fans from all over the world could convene to talk about the club they love. The cornerstone of this was always a free forum. However, in September 2006, Duncan Oldham closed it down without notice and went pay-only. The efforts of the blog and others opposed to his scams and lies meant that he couldn’t effectively moderate his own community, and membership levels dropped too low for it to be viable.

Since then, though, deprived of the stream of curious free forumites signing up, and delisted from NewsNow, he has struggled to replace those who have left his subscription site. After months of his failure to stem the exodus of members, despite embarrassing and expensive trips to Montreal, Dallas and La Manga, Duncan Oldham has gone back to the future in a last, desperate gamble to save his ailing site: he’s re-opened his free forums.