Chronology of KopTalk’s fortunes since this blog was launched

2006

March 16th – claims to have spoken with Michael Owen
March 29th – “If there’s no finance secured by the opening day of the season, I’m going to hang up my keyboard and close KOPTALK down“ (also look at the sig in the first post here)

April 20th – “If I was to axe the site I’d be better off financially but it’s a love for me and I don’t know what else I’d do.” Steve goes AWOL

May 16th – Oldham boasts that he has bought four Mercedes since KopTalk launched
May 22nd – Oldham admits he does not have custody of kids and that his wife does not live with him
May 31st – claims to have spoken with Steven Gerrard

June/July – mass exodus of KopTalk Gold Club members to set up Est1892 website
June 1st – claims to have a tape recording of Peter Crouch talking to a S*n journalist
June 2nd – Oldham starts his own blog
June 9th – KopTalk is way behind other LFC sites (YNWA, TLW, Shankly Gates) with the news that Hamann may sign for Bolton
June 15th – admits that: “Honestly, I don’t think we’ve ever been this quiet.“
June 20th – book delayed as his laptop blew up / Rick Parry wants to meet him (again) / claims Duncan Oldham is not his real name
June 29th – shares his pulling methods
June 29th – claims he is going to buy a property adjacent to Melwood (here and here)
June 29th – claims he is going to open a hotel in Liverpool for KT members
June 29th – claims Liverpool players regularly visit KopTalk

July – Katie starts working on KT
July 3rd – crappy footage of Melwood filmed over wall and solitary photo of back of Gary Ablett’s head
July 3rd – claims to have recruited a Melwood gateman
July 3rd – begins to talk about having CCTV on the gates at Melwood and a webcam filming the training pitches
July 3rd – “If we get any more inside we’ll get arrested“
July 4th – claims Chris Waddle has offered to sell his Melwood property to him
July 4th – admits has The S*n delivered. Burns copy of S*n on video – with Steve wearing painfully unfunny “Scouser” wig and ‘tache
July 8th – claims Rick Parry wants a meeting with him
July 8th – demands that all lurkers must post five times a month or their accounts will be deleted
July 9th – Oldham closes down his Lauren appeal after scrutiny from the blog
July 10th – requests applications from members to become overnight moderators
July 10th – blog first reports that Charities Commission cannot deal with Lauren collection as it was not registered to begin with
July 10th – Oldham pulls plug on his own blog
July 20th – KT reverts back to the old format of 2 groups of forums: first team and reserves
July 20th – announces competition: will fly in a Red and their guest from wherever they live in the world to see game at Anfield & stay in hotel
July 21st – blog reprints email from Ian Cotton stating that Oldham has never met with Rick Parry
July 22nd – maximum date range for searches changed from 2 years to 1 day
July 26th – KopTalk is way behind other LFC sites and the mainstream media (YNWA, The Mirror, PA) with news about the Pennant transfer. “Wallet” (ie Oldham himself) then claims that he knew about it all along but had been locked out of KopTalk for three days (also here)
July 27th – Steve “promoted” to KopTalk editor
July 30th – claims new server will cost almost £900 per month

Aug – mass exodus of KopTalk free forum members to set up the sixcrazyminutes.com website
Aug – Oldham has bought an 0151 (the telephone code for Liverpool) redirect number to give the impression that KopTalk is based in Liverpool
Aug 5th – says his 12-year-old daughter is now moderating on KT forums
Aug 13th – Oldham pretends to be in Cardiff for the Community Shield match against Chelsea. He posts 200 photos of the game but not a single one features Oldham himself, and he fails to meet up with KopTalk members who are there
Aug 17th – says KopTalk forums are now moderated 24 hours a day
Aug 18th – KopTalk is way behind YNWA and the national media with the news of Kuyt signing. One KT member complains: “Shame we didn’t get any inside info on this one as it appears the nationals got it before KT.” Look at this comment in particular. Once again, Oldham later pretends he knew about the signing all along
Aug 19th – Oldham admits he does not have a direct line to Rick Parry’s office – “Please be realistic about your expectations. We don’t have a direct line to Rick Parry’s office so if you’re not switched on to undertsand that, you’re probably best off not joining.“
Aug 19th – KopTalk is way behind other LFC sites (YNWA, TLW, Est1892, RAWK all report it two days before KT) with the Lucas Neill story
Aug 22nd – blog prints Oldham’s Swan Avenue, Wallsend address
Aug 25th – KopTalk calls members at work to threaten them
Aug 25th – KopTalk introduces “privacy statement” / AUP
Aug 25th – KopTalk is way behind other LFC forums with the news that Nabil El Zhar has signed. The news breaks on KT when a member says he has read the news on other sites: “Apparently laods of youngster are on trial these days (up to six it is reported in several forums) and one of them should be the Zhar and he is now signed.”
Aug 29th – Oldham meets a hitman
Aug 29th – Oldham makes sick paedo podcast “joke”
Aug 30th – Oldham is at Melwood

Sep 2nd – ridiculous ranting editorial in which he claims his children have been targeted / that Steve works 7 days a week from 7am until after midnight / that none of them is paid a wage / “We’ve just had a bid accepted on a property adjacent to Melwood” / book will be out this season / has declined an offer from a professional hitman
Sep 5th – closes KopTalk’s free forums down
Sep 8th – claims to have a “new base in West Derby, Liverpool”. He soon forgets that he has “bought” this property
Sep 8th – Steve appears on Sky Sports News (jumping around like a tit behind a reporter)
Sep 9th – bullshit claims of pre-derby Bellamy bust-up
Sep 9th – claims book will be out this season
Sep 11th – Steve at Melwood / John Lennon Airport
Sep 12th – says will ask server host if can bring back PMs
Sep 22nd – claims to have spent £600 on SMS credits on that day alone
Sep 23rd – ST3 claims Oldham had early morning meeting in Liverpool hotel with “key figures” in possible investment in LFC
Sep 29th – KopTalk’s Honorary Memberships are scrapped

Oct 5th – KopTalk excluded from PWSTK poll of unofficial sites by the club
Oct 29th – Oldham says: “I don’t get excited any more watching football and I’ve felt like that on and off for a few years now. My book’s out this season.“
Oct 30th – Oldham gets the identity of the Liverpool FC director who was quoted anonymously in The Mirror newspaper making derogatory comments about Rafa Benitez wrong
Oct 31st – Oldham claims in a KopTalk podcast that he will give up his season tickets at the end of the season and says: “Talking about rotation. Talking about investment. F**king boring. Then the stadium. They could knock it down and build an Asda, I don’t care.”

Nov – KopTalk suspended from NewsNow for a few weeks
Nov 2nd – NewsNow begins to list blog articles
Nov 5th – LFC predictor league leaves KT for Est1892
Nov 10th – blog reveals that KopTalk has been running adverts for The S*n newspaper for at least 14 days (with follow-up reports here, here and here)
cNov 22nd – new-look KopTalk site
Nov 27th – Katie starts working on KT full time

cDec 1st – Oldham launches KT Alder Hey appeal
Dec 15th – Oldham claims to be in New York to visit Smoove and buy a house in New York state. He somehow manages to post on KopTalk while on the flight there
Dec 15th – blog adopts new look and www.kopta1k.com launches
Dec 19th – Oldham [posting as ST3] claims he will become a father again soon
Dec 31st – Oldham finally produces (incomplete) receipts for Alder Hey collection

2007

Jan 1st – registers domains for footballand birds.tv porn site
Jan 2nd – banned permanently from News Now + blog delisted from NewsNow + new record number of daily hits for the blog (12,449)
Jan 4th – Kraptalk site now redirects to the blog
Jan 9th – Oldham pretends to be at Anfield for the League Cup match against Arsenal but starts posting on KopTalk before the game is finished and never produces any footage of himself inside the ground
Jan 22nd – Katie “injured”
Jan 27th – “Emma” (Rebecca Franks) begins working on KT. She leaves after a couple of days

Feb 6th – Oldham squats on various KopFootball domain names
Feb 17th – KopTalk members hear about the Riise/Bellamy bust-up from Norwegian media reports
cFeb 17th – Oldham reverts to title of “Editor”
Feb 21st – Oldham in Barcelona, but not inside the Camp Nou. As with the Community Shield game, he produces no proof he was ever inside the ground
Feb 22nd – date Oldham claims George Gillett joined KT

Mar 1st – Oldham claims George Gillett is a member
Mar 17th – Oldham in Montreal. He fails to meet George Gillett, who is not in the city at the time
Mar 23rd – the blog is one year old

Apr 6th – Oldham in Dallas. Meets with Tom Hicks for less than ten minutes
April 9th – Oldham launches KopFootball.com site
April 13th – Oldham’s porn site closes down
April 13th – Chris Bascombe reports on plans for an 18,000-seater Kop in the proposed new stadium. Oldham had failed to hint at anything of the kind, despite his claims of a two-hour meeting with Tom Hicks
April 21st – Oldham claims on KopTalk that Benitez will have £100 million transfer budget this summer if he wants it

May 11th – KopTalk Freddie Shepherd video
May 16th – Oldham in La Manga, shooting blurry footage from half a mile away from the training camp after the blog tipped off LFC officials
May 19th – Oldham claims he has been asked by George Gillett and Tom Hicks to act as a go-between to appoint a new CEO
May 21st – Oldham claims he has left La Manga and is heading for Athens. He will never produce any proof that he was in Athens
May 25th – George Gillett “leaves” KopTalk
May 28th – begins to publish a slew of negative articles about Hicks and Gillett
May 29th – admits his non-existent book won’t come out until after KT closes

June 1st – KopTalk only fan site excluded from independent LFC fans’ survey
June 10th – Oldham claiming to be in Valencia when he is in fact in Alicante
June 11th – Oldham pretends he never said Benitez would have £100 million transfer budget
June 12th – blog announces that Oldham is moving to Alicante, Spain
June 15th – all Oldham’s Wallsend properties are put on the market
June 16th – claims he is about to renew his season tickets
June 26th – announces Steve will take over running of site from start of season
June 29th – announces will be moving to a new server soon

July 2nd – KopTalk claims Torres has passed his medical, 24 hours before it actually took place.
July 3rd – Oldham goes on to claim a second medical, in addition to the one for Torres, is planned at Melwood today. There is no second medical
July 9th – KopTalk reports Babel transfer hours after The Echo. In a KopTalk classic, Oldham claims he knew about the deal all along but couldn’t report it until after the story had broken in The Echo.
cJuly 16th – relaunch of Duncan Oldham blog
July 21 – Oldham claims that: “I’ve set myself a target of attending every home game next season and have accomodation booked up for the first half of the season.”
cJuly 26th – KopTalk begins move to new server

Aug 4th – Oldham says he will be attending every home league match over the coming season
Aug 6th – KT relaunches its Cafepress shop
Aug 10th – Oldham says he’s trying to take his site away from the “insider” tag
Aug 18th-19th – Oldham claims he is in Liverpool and will be attending the Chelsea match. He never provides any proof of either
Aug 30th – Oldham claiming to be at Melwood. A KT member goes down to meet him but Oldham isn’t there
Aug 30th – KopTalk members hear about the Pako Ayesteran story from other LFC sites. Reports of a serious rift between Pako and Rafa first appeared on RAWK and TLW more than two weeks earlier

Sep 18th – Duncan Oldham blog is pulled
Sep 18th – Oldham begins to claim Johnny Vegas is his mate
Sep 20th – Oldham allows a post linking to a The S*n article to remain on KopTalk for days
Sep 24th – Johnny Vegas’s PA emails blog poster to state that Oldham “is not a friend of” Vegas
Sep 27th – Advert for The S*n appears on the KT front page . Oldham allows it to remain there for more than a week

Oct – Oldham claims that he and KT mod Smoove’s brother are “about to open our 3rd internet cafe and gaming centre in the States and we’re hoping to open one here in London next year”
Oct 3rd – Steve claims Oldham is in Liverpool for the Marseille match. No proof is ever provided that he was at the game
Oct 6th – Oldham claims his Anfield Exposed book is finished and will come out when KopTalk closes down
Oct 7th – Oldham claims he still goes to LFC reserve matches
Oct 9th – the blog proves that Oldham has never bought property in New York State, as he claimed the previous December
Oct 10th – KopTalk announces its free forums will be relaunching soon but that “every post will require approval by a member of the KopTalk Team (admins)” before being published
Oct 15th – KopTalk free forums re-open – every post requires a moderator’s approval before appearing
Oct 17th – Oldham says his book “isn’t full of ‘amazing secret information’ nor does it attack anyone at LFC” but admits he hasn’t written it yet
Oct 19th – The blog reveals a new KopTalk PayPal scam – telling members they need to cancel their PayPal dispute before money owed can be repaid, then refusing to do so. Members then realise that they cannot raise another dispute with PayPal and will never get their money back
Oct 28th – Oldham claims he attended the Arsenal at Anfield. Again, he provides no proof
Oct 30th – KopTalk publishes Riise wage slip, which had been emailed around LFC fans for a couple of days beforehand

Nov 5th – new-look KopTalk front page
Nov 11th – despite Oldham’s claims of regular email contact with Tom Hicks, KopTalk knows nothing about Hicks’s interest in buying AS Roma until it is reported in the national press
Nov 16th – KopTalk Stickam chatroom has closed
Nov 20th – Oldham claims, falsely, that he met George Gillett in Montreal, even though he has previously admitted on numerous occasions that Gillett was not in Montreal at the time of his visit and has posted videos of the trip himself showing this to be the case
Nov 22nd – Oldham states he has “made arrangements to go to Spain during the Euro 2008 finals”, which is a strange thing to say as he has already been living in Spain for several months
Nov 22nd – KopTalkers learn about Benitez falling out with the owners from a member who is watching Sky Sports News
Nov 30th – Oldham claims he has received “an email from Dallas”. It reads: “Duncan, The reports in Britain today 11/30 are not true”.

Dec – Oldham has launched the www.livevideocommunity.com site
Dec 7th – Despite claiming he would attend every Liverpool home game this season, Oldham has yet to produce any proof he has even been to the UK since August, let alone gone to a match
Dec 11th – Oldham has been absent from KT for more than a week, without explanation

2008

Jan 21st – first mention on the blog that Oldham is now spending his time on LiveVideo posting as “mrmercedesman” and has launched the www.livevideocommunity.com site
Jan 22nd – Oldham pretends George Gillett still has a KT account and “last logged on within the last week”. He also claims that he has opened a KopTalk account for Tom Hicks
c Jan 22nd – Oldham starts a thread called “Ask Hicks anything”, where members can post questions for him to then ask his good friend Tom Hicks
Jan 24th – Oldham admits in a video that he lives in Spain and has not been back to the UK since moving over there
Jan 25th – Katie has not appeared on KT since before Christmas
Jan 25th – Oldham repeats the claim that he has created a KopTalk account for Tom Hicks
Jan 25th – Oldham admits to a KT member that he is “in Spain”
Late Jan – blog begins to receive emails from concerned LiveVideo members

Feb – Oldham posts a video on LV of him “ordering” a new Mercedes
Feb – Oldham has yet to tell his KopTalk members about his LiveVideo exploits
Feb 8th – Oldham posts “joke” KopTalk article claiming that Tom Hicks’s own firm had secured naming rights for the new stadium, to call it the Hicks Anfield Bowl
Feb 12th – Oldham says he is planning a tour of Canada and America
Feb 13th – KopTalk has moved to a new, cheaper US-based server
Feb 28th – KopTalk free forums have now closed again

Mar – Oldham continues to spend most of his time on LiveVideo, with KopTalk taking a back seat
Mar 13th – Oldham posts a video threatening to set his lawyers on the owners of LiveVideo

April – Oldham says the new KopTalk free forums will launch in June
April – Steve now also appears on LiveVideo
April – Oldham registers his MoarVideo.com/.tv sites
April – a familiar theme: Oldham is stealing videos wholesale off YouTube and then passing them off as his own
c April 2nd – Oldham claims he has a new girlfriend, a policewoman who lives in England. He posts what he claims is an image of her – but it’s a photograph of his ex-wife, Maria
April 3rd – claims he will attend Arsenal game at Anfield on April 8th. Never provides proof that he did so
April 7th – Oldham claims he has returned to England for the week
April 8th – Oldham posts two new videos, showing himself in his house in Spain
April 10th – Oldham posts more new videos, again showing himself in his house in Spain
April 10th – following newspaper reports that Rick Parry’s job was under threat, Oldham falsely claims on KopTalk that Tom Hicks invited him to Dallas and that Hicks confided in Oldham about his opinion of Rick Parry
April 10th – Oldham will make no further comments about his non-existent trip to England
c April 10th – Oldham makes familiar claims about his “enemies” on LiveVideo: that he has their IP addresses, that he’ll have them bumped off, that his family have been harassed etc
April 15th – KopTalkers learn about the Degen transfer from a member who heard the news on Irish radio
April 19th – Oldham says he will be interviewing applicants next week to fill the post of team manager for a new project of his. He also states that he will be travelling overseas next month to look at buying more properties
April 21st – Oldham announces he will launch his own video sharing network
April 23rd – Oldham makes another familiar claim: that vlogging is a “hobby”, while at the same time asking for people’s money
April 24th – repeats claim that he still owns a house in England
April 25th – Oldham claims that he has “a business interest in at least 15 websites, varying from soccer to politics” and “several companies, some online, some offline”. Also says he has hired “a dedicated programmer and website designer” and that “a small team is now in place to work exclusively on my video sharing website”
April 25th – KopTalkers hear about Liverpool’s interest in Albert Riera from a copy and paste of the BBC’s Football Gossip Column put on the site by a member
April 26th – Oldham makes his “Most Important Post Ever” It reads: “Everything is going to be fine.”
April 26th – posts a video of himself talking to camera with the Liverpool v Birmingham game on in the background, completely ignoring the match
April 27th – posts video saying he will kick his children’s new stepdad’s teeth in. Also claims again that his ex-wife is not the mother of his children (which, bizarrely, turns out to be true)
April 28th – KopTalk finally changes its postal address to Oldham’s new home in Alicante, Spain, a mere ten months after he moved there
April 29th – there are currently about 1,000 supposed KopTalk members who have never made a single post
April 30th – says on KopTalk that “both owners have access this website as members. Tom Hicks is the more active of the two”
April 30th – Oldham says of Tom Hicks that “it’s a matter of when, not if, he will be forced to sell” and goes on to state that “one things for sure, now that Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum is involved, there can only be one winner”
April 30th – Oldham says he believes DIC and Rick Parry, in addition to Hicks and Gillett, also browse KopTalk’s forums

May – Despite posting several new videos every day, Oldham has yet to provide any footage of his alleged trips to Anfield, his trips to England, his trips to other “overseas” countries or his new Mercedes
May 1st – Oldham claims on KopTalk that “DIC WILL have *100% control, that I am confident. I would be prepared to take a £1000 bet with anyone that says it will NOT happen. I am extremely confident.” and that “DIC WILL dispose of Hicks. I cannot reveal how.”
May 2nd – Despite his recent claims that he has “a business interest in 15 websites and several companies, some online, some offline”, today Oldham says that he is bored and has nothing to do
May 3rd – Oldham announces he has ordered a £5K quad bike and a £2K MacBook Pro.
May 3rd – someone posts on the blog to say that Oldham has taken a video he uploaded to YouTube of Tom Hicks, added the KopTalk url to it and passed it off as their own
May 5th – the blog sends an email to hundreds of KopTalk members to inform them that Oldham has been spending most of his time this year on LiveVideo, despite telling members he is devoted to KT “24/7”. Oldham responds by saying his LiveVideo exploits are “not a secret”, even though they have been going on for six months without him ever mentioning them on KopTalk, and that he needs the publicity. He allows the email to be posted on KopTalk
May 6th – the number of listed KT members (which, of course, is a very different thing to real, paying members) has fallen from around 5,000 when the blog began to about 2,500
May 6th – Oldham insists Katie and Smoove (who Oldham claims is his “best friend”) are still on KopTalk, despite the fact neither of them have posted all year
May 6th – KopTalkers learn about the Dossena transfer from a Tribal Football article which a member copies and pastes onto the site
May 8th – Oldham posts a video saying that “publicity, be it good or bad, helps me… make more money, d’you know what I mean” and with regards to KopTalk “the more attention it gets, the more money I make”. This is despite the KT sign-up page reading: “We’re not here to make a profit, we’re here to pay the bills and every single penny we receive in advertising or membership subscriptions we re-invest into the site”
May 8th – Oldham says the KopTalk free forums were taken down after a server move and will relaunch in July (not June, as he has previously stated)
May 8th – claims he has an external bar on the side of his house (he lives in a second-storey apartment)
May 8th – Oldham announces the build of his new video website will begin on May 12th and that his aim “is to break even”. There will be two membership options: free or a paid-for VIP membership. “The Project Manager has set a deadline of 5 months for the initial build. From that point the site should go live for testing purposes.”
May 9th – Oldham has posted a series of “hate” videos in which he rants about “coloured people”, women, gays and the disabled
May 11th – Oldham now says his new Mercedes won’t be delivered for another year, although he will be paying for it in hard cash
May 15th – Oldham finally returns to England, four days after Liverpool’s season ends. He flies in with budget airline Jet2
May 22nd – Oldham says that a female Sky Sports News presenter “needs a kicking”, “needs a slap” and that he hopes her husband “kicks her teeth in”
May 25th – Oldham launches his video hosting website, with premium memberships at £30 a go. It uses a free web host, despite Oldham’s previous claims he had hired “a dedicated programmer and website designer” and that “a small team is now in place to work exclusively on my video sharing website”
May 25th – Oldham is in Cyprus. He now has a MacBook Pro (RRP £2,000).

June 5th – Oldham claims he is one of only “a handful of people” who know that Ronaldo has signed for Real Madrid and will join them after Euro 2008. None of this turns out to be true, but numerous KopTalk posters believe it and put bets on via Oldham’s betting affiliates – coincidentally earning Oldham money in the process
June 12th – Oldham says in a video that he is buying a new house for £140K under the asking price because the owners are getting divorced and have a mortgage to settle
June 19th – Oldham launches his MoarVideo.tv vlogging website
June 19th – Oldham claims he is now engaged. He shows off the box for “the ring”, the paperwork and the bag, but strangely not the ring itself – or, for that matter, his fiancée
June 19th – Oldham makes more familiar claims: that “due to a censorship issue” his followers could have their LiveVideo accounts closed “without notice”; that Moar Video will offer a “free advertising supported account with certain limitations and a VIP account without those limitations and without advertising for a small annual fee to help cover hosting costs”; and that “moarvideo.con’s mission plan is to provide a fun website that cares about it’s [sic] contributors and generates enough revenue to pay the hosting and running costs”
June 19th – Oldham says that “Although we can’t provide daily updates during the design and build of Moar Video … rest assured, our developers are working on this project Monday to Friday, weekly.”
June 19th – announces he won’t be buying a new house after all, because his “bank manager” advised him not to
June 20th – Oldham’s LV videos are averaging around a mighty 100 views each
June 20th – LiveVideo users have taken the bait and are now up in arms about “censorship”
June 21st – Oldham claims he is taking his girlfriend to catch her flight back to the UK. Strangely, we see no video of this. He also posts on KopTalk at the time he tells LiveVideo users he will be driving her to the airport
June 24th – Oldham claims he has just spent $5100 on his video website project. He presents an Excel project plan as “proof”
June 26th – Oldham is posting “hate” videos again

July – Koptalk moderator SeaDog, who is a cousin of Oldham’s, leaves KT without explanation
July 1st – Oldham’s quad bike is due today. It doesn’t make an appearance
July 2nd – Oldham makes a complaint to LiveVideo about videos posted by his critics which contain his footage ie Oldham asks LiveVideo to censor users’ content (something he has claimed to be totally opposed to) for stealing other people’s content (something he has done himself relentlessly)
July 3rd – KopTalkers learn about the Cavalieri transfer from a link to an article on the Setanta Sports website which a member posts on the site
July 6th – Oldham announces he now has a stepdaughter. She will never be seen and he soon forgets about the claim
July 6th – Oldham suddenly begins apologising to LV members for his past actions
July 8th – Oldham is now telling his followers to block the “haterz” (ie anyone who points out he’s a con artist) from accessing their videos, despite claiming for months that he loves the publicity and attention from his critics
July 9th – Oldham posts a non-LFC-related article from The S*n on KopTalk
July 9th – Oldham removes the “Remember The 96” banner from the KopTalk front page
July 10th – Oldham has offered to pay for a blog commenter’s plane ticket to meet him one-on-one, but then won’t reply to the commenter’s email taking him up on the offer
July 10th – Oldham presents “proof” of his video site’s development: some boxes on a sheet of paper
July 11th – still no sign of Katie since December
July 12th – a KopTalk member posts a non-LFC-related article from The S*n. Another member says that “that rag gets far too many mentions on this site”. Oldham then comes to the defence of the original poster, stating that “We’re not going to ignore something that they claim to be happening. It is up to the individual to ignore or digest it and accept it.”
July 14th – Oldham reduces his LV vlogs and begins posting videos on YouTube
July 17th – Oldham posts more “hate” videos
July 20th – KopTalkers learn about the Ngog transfer from a Setanta Sports news article which copied and pasted onto the site by a KT member
July 20th – claims Steve lives in the “house” underneath his (the one in which he previously said his mum lived)
July 22nd – Oldham says of his new video site: “About time I started making some money out of you f*ckers”, despite the fact he previously stated that his aim was to “break even”
July 22nd – Oldham successfully demands that LV deletes a user blog critical of his videos
July 22nd – Oldham admits the KopTalk free forms won’t re-open in July, as planned. He hopes they will now re-open on Sep 10th, a full month after the season has started. He says the delay is “because Steve has had to return to England due to two serious illnesses in his family”
July 22nd – still no sign of Katie. Although her KopTalk account has been banned, Oldham claims there is no problem with her. He says she has returned to England to study and that it was then impossible for her to carry on working on the site as Oldham is now based in Spain, despite the fact there’s only an hour’s time difference
July 27th – Oldham has still not bought any webspace for his Moar Video site; it’s on a free system called Weebly. It is still running on a virtual server, one which does not have the capacity to run a video site
July 29th – Oldham’s “policewoman” girlfriend has now spent six weeks with him in Spain over the past three months

Aug 3rd – Oldham claims his own video sharing network will be online “later in 2008 or early 2009”
Aug 4th – Oldham complains about his LV videos having to be moderated before they can be shown, despite stating that all Moar Video posts will have to be approved by himself before appearing, and doing the same on his KopTalk free forums
Aug 4th – Oldham says he is quitting LV because of his videos being moderated (LV are moderating his posts due his videos plugging his own rival video site and containing pornographic content). He says he will now be uploading his videos to YouTube instead
Aug 5th – Oldham claims he has bought a second house in Spain “without having to borrow any money at all”. Although the deal has yet to be finalised, Oldham says he already has the keys to the property
Aug 7th – Oldham returns to LiveVideo
Aug 14th – the blog reveals that Oldham’s new video sharing site is actually hosted by Ning, meaning his tales of spending $5,100 and having a team of web designers working on the project were all lies
Aug 20th – Oldham logs in at KopTalk as his daughter, Charlotte, to try to start some new threads. Highlights include “Who Likes Marmite?”
Aug 21st – Oldham is now posting videos on Vloggerheads.com (another Ning site)
Aug 21st – Oldham is running a competition to win a camcorder to promote his “forthcoming” Moar Video site. Five months later, there will still be no proof that anybody received the prize
Aug 28th – KopTalk’s Championship Competition (a £5 UK football league sweepstake) has attracted a total of 12 participants, as opposed to 120 in 2008 and 96 in 2007, perhaps as a result of so little of the previous year’s winnings appearing to have been given out
Aug 31st – KopTalk free forums will not re-open on Sep 10th. The new date is Sep 28th

Sep 1st – the blog reveals the cost for Oldham of hiding his Ning site behind his own Moar Video.tv domain name is a massive $5
Sep 1st – still no sign of the Mercedes, the new house or Katie and still no understanding of the meaning of the word “invoke”
Sep 2nd – KopTalk’s “insiders” predicted none of the six first-team signings Liverpool made during the summer transfer window
Sep 6th – Oldham offers “FREE VIP Membership” to Moar Video (when it launches) for members who regularly upload original video content to his Ning site. He says the Moar “VIP membership will be around $50-a-year” but that there are “no intentions to make any form of profit”
Sep 15th – membership numbers on Moar Video are falling, so Oldham removes the “view all members” button from the main page
Sep 24th – the promised re-opening of the KopTalk free forums fails to materialise, for at least the fourth time. Their re-opening is now said to be “imminent”
Sep 25th – Oldham claims he is only posting his videos on his Moar Video site because he can’t get his videos onto LV. More than 700 videos have been posted on LV in the past 24 hours
Sep 27th – the most popular video on Oldham’s Moar site has a grand total of 43 views
Sep 27th – Oldham begs his Moar Video users to post more content

Oct – Oldham claims he will attend Liverpool’s Champions League away tie against Atletico Madrid on Oct 22nd and has already booked a hotel room. He won’t and he hasn’t
Oct – Koptalk free forums are now due to re-open before the end of October
Oct 1st – Oldham offers reduced KopTalk subscription rates if members sign up for more than one year at a time: 70 euros for 2 years and 164 euros for 5 years. The annual cost has risen from £30 to £32.50 if you pay in euros, £36.35 if you pay in US dollars and £35 if you pay by cheque. You can no longer pay in pounds sterling
Oct 2nd – About 700 members have left KopTalk since the start of the year
Oct 6th – Oldham is in London. He goes to Stringfellows. Strangely, he has chosen to come to the UK the day after a Liverpool match. They do not have another game until Oct 18th, the longest gap between matches during the whole season. He doesn’t see his kids, either
Oct 9th – Oldham announces yet another KopTalk server move: “It is essential that we make the switch to obtain more bandwidth.” This is a curious statement given that the typical daily number of posts on KopTalk has decreased from the thousands to a few hundred
Oct 11th – Oldham begins posting as “Dunk” on Moar Video instead of as “MrMercedesman”. He had not owned a Mercedes for any of the 12 months he had been using the name
Oct 12th – Oldham claims he phoned up an associate of Peter Stringfellow to tell them he and Steve were in town. The blog has already shown that anyone can get a free invite via the strip club’s website
Oct 18th – Oldham’s Moar Video camcorder competition closes
Oct 21st – a whole 17 videos added to Moar Video in the past 24 hours, most with just a handful of views
Oct 23rd – Oldham admits he didn’t attend the CL match against Athletico Madrid: “Flights from Alicante to Madrid were really pricey and I didn’t fancy driving there.” He had previously claimed to have already booked his hotel room in Madrid
Oct 23rd – when asked how many matches he now attends by a KopTalk member, Oldham says: “To be honest I lost a lot of interest in recent years.” This is a curious admission, as he claimed he was attending every home match the previous season and had booked accommodation for all matches up to Christmas. Oldham then says he will attend the Anfield derby on Jan 19th (he won’t)
Oct 24th – Oldham claims that the cost of building his Moar Video website is $2,000 a month and that he hopes to launch it before the end of the year. He admits that “there are too many video sharing websites out there”
Oct 24th – Oldham writes another response to the blog
Oct 24th – the KopTalk pints appeal: you can donate 5 euros to Steve or Dunk, and they’ll buy a pint and record a video of themselves drinking it. No, really. “We work 7-days-a-week for you and get little reward… Please dig deep and buy us a pint today”. Oldham has spent the vast majority of every day for the past 12 months posting videos on LV and MV. He even sets up a website for the appeal at www.koptalkpints.com, which he soon forgets about
Oct 25th – Oldham says his Moar Video project has cost him £8,000 so far and that it won’t be ready by the end of the year, but he now hopes it will launch in February. He also says he hasn’t forgotten about the camcorder competition
Oct 27th – Oldham claims he took his son to watch Liverpool play Man Utd a couple of seasons ago. He has never provided any proof that this occurred
Oct 27th – a grand total of 12 videos have been uploaded to Moar Video in the past 24 hours
Oct 28th – Moar Video has increasing numbers of “faceless” members, which Oldham had said would not be tolerated
Oct 29th – 57 of Moar Video’s 300 members have never even posted an image, let alone a video
Oct 30th – still no progress in the camcorder competition. Oldham says this is because he is “snowed under”, although he has had time to post videos constantly over the past few weeks

Nov 1st – the vast majority of the content on Moar Video consists of reloads of videos from LiveVideo and YouTube
Nov 1st – the KopTalk free forums have yet to re-open
Nov 6th – Oldham asks the owner of the Vloggerheads site, Renetto, if he can become part of that project
Nov 7th – Oldham says he “cannot stand the Ning network”, which is strange as his “temporary” MoarVideo.tv website is a Ning site
Nov 7th – Oldham makes a fawning post praising LV members and pleading with them to come over to his Moar Video site
Nov 8th – Oldham posts another video update about the progress of his Moar Video site. Despite his claims that “a dedicated programmer and website designer” and “a small team is now in place to work exclusively on my video sharing website”, he is unable to provide even a screenshot of the site
Nov 9th – Oldham begins reducing the number of sub-forums on KopTalk to disguise how dead the site is
Nov 11th – responding again to the blog, Oldham claims that “One of the reasons I wanted to try MV was because I knew that negative attention would help me. I couldn’t ask for better help in promoting it. It’s free and there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Time will show that this is not true. Repeats the usual “it was the kick up the ass I needed” and “In real life, offline they targeted my kids, my disabled cousin and my mother who is a widow” lies
Nov 12th – approximately 40% of the members on Moar Video seem to be no name/sock accounts
Nov 17th – “The MoarVideo.com project manager estimates that it will be approximately February 2009 before we complete the design of the MV website. Work will then begin on the database structure. MV will not be ready to use in February.”
Nov 19th – Oldhan lets slip that the Hyundai he had “bought” was in fact a hire car
Nov 19th – KopTalk’s latest server move is under way. KT is moving from Rackspace onto a shared server based in the US, which is cheaper but able only to deal with low levels of traffic
Nov 19th – KopTalk has a new address for cheques and postal orders to be sent to: Steve Macneish, KopTalk Office, 111 Ridley Avenue, High Howdon, Tyne-and-Wear NE28 0HB. It is close to Oldham’s old Wallsend property
Nov 20th – the cost of the new KopTalk server host at Hostdime.com is between $9 and $25 per month
Nov 20th – Oldham launches a dating website at moardating.com
Nov 21st – Oldham makes access to Moar Video members-only
Nov 24th – Oldham posts a video of the “new KopTalk site”. The blog mocks it. He takes the video down
Nov 24th – Oldham claims he is having a new office built. Still no sign of the second Spanish property he said he had purchased
Nov 27th – Oldham claims that an elderly KopTalk member died recently and his widow contacted Dunk and “insisted on paying his subs for another year because ‘that’s what he would have wanted’.”
Nov 27th – Oldham says the latest KopTalk server move was due his last host charging “just short of £600-a-month” and refusing to accept payment via PayPal. The blog has already proven that the monthly hosting costs were about £100. He also promises new features for the KopTalk site
Nov 27th – Oldham says that “Steve is in Spain with me”
Nov 27th – Oldham claims that he has “recently acquired some new premises” in Spain for KopTalk. He also states that “we give you 110% effort all of the time”, but has spent the majority of his time over the past 12 months on LiveVideo and Moar Video
Nov 28th – Oldham is getting a little paranoid: “When MoarVideo.com launches we will have numerous tools available to admin to detect and trace people who just want to be disruptive. Every action on the site will record the user’s IP address. If they are using a proxy to access the site with the intent of faking their IP address, they will be immediately suspended.
We are monitoring several sock accounts that are not providing content i.e. videos, photos, blog or forum entries. We will be far stricter when MoarVideo.com launches but for now we are watching.
We monitor every movement on the site and when we identify sock accounts we are compiling information on them for the security of the MoarVideo website and our users.”
Nov 29th – Oldham is still paranoid: “Content approval WILL be in force on MoarVideo.com when launched. However, trusted users, users that are known to us or are long term sensible contributors, will have auto-approval on their accounts.” Oldham had previously claimed that the main reason for setting up MV was the “censorhip”/vetting of videos on LV
Nov 30th – KopTalk free forums are now due on Dec 3rd

Dec 1st – Oldham may be behind the unsuccessful LFC site kop-chat.com
Dec 3rd – the KopTalk free forums finally arrive, after at least seven failed deadlines. It is a free blue and white Joomla site and uses a standard script and a default skin, with minimal amendments. It would have taken a few hours to set up
Dec 7th – Oldham announces new plans for KopTalk, including launching a Spanish-language version of KopTalk, additional SMS services (on top of the existing one, which KT members have told us is intermittent at best and non-existent at worst) and “Provide red skin for free (public) forums – PENDING”. The vast majority of these improvements will never occur
Dec 8th – Oldham has put the SOS logo on his site
Dec 8th – KT free forums are now red, not blue
Dec 10th – www.blam.us has launched
Dec 12nd – Oldham makes access to Moar Video members-only again. It’s almost as if he has something to hide
Dec 14th – Oldham says he is about to launch moarhosting dot com, a webhosting service
Dec 16th – still no winner for Oldham’s camcorder competition. Oldham’s sidekick OhMightyVlog  claimed he had won, but others disagreed
Dec 18th – Oldham claims he has almost 100 webhosting clients who buy server space from him. So why is he constantly changing the server for KopTalk? He says the moarvideo.com vlogging site will be up by the end of the month
Dec 19th – Oldham posts a list of his “haterz”’s IP addresses
Dec 19th – Oldham shows off a “signed” Torres shirt
Dec 25th – winner of the camcorder competition is supposed to be announced today. It isn’t
Dec 28th – Oldham changes the rules of the camcorder competition long after it closed. Previously, all entrants were to receive a new webcam. Now only entrants who don’t already possess a webcam will receive one – but they needed a cam to make the video to enter the competition in the first place…
Dec 31st – KopTalk has lost almost 1,000 members this year. Oldham still claims the site has a 99% renewal rate

2009

Jan 3rd – Oldham posts on KopTalk to ask why Torres’s goal wasn’t offside. The man who has run a football website for ten years doesn’t understand the offside rule
Jan 4th – Oldham announces he won’t be attending the derby match after all, as it’s too cold in England in January
Jan 7th – access to Moar Video is again restricted to members only
Jan 9th – Oldham claims his book, which he has already written, will be out this year: “‘Anfield Exposed’ – Coming Soon. No ****! The infamous book of mine will finally be published this year. I am currently re-writing some chapters and adding extra bits which would have been missed out had I run the book earlier. I will be making the book available online via self publishing.”
Jan 14th – The Informer (ie Oldham himself) posts on KopTalk to say LFC have agreed personal terms with Emile Heskey, who will join Aston Villa nine days later

Feb 5th – Oldham is trying to get Moar Video members to sign up for a Ponzi scheme
Feb 5th – Oldham claims he couldn’t afford both to fly his kids over for Christmas and to continue to invest in Moar Video, so he put his video site first and his children stayed in the UK
Feb 6th – Oldham makes an appeal for “a sleeping partner” to join him in his Moar venture
Feb 6th – Oldham claims his SMS database has been lost due to computer problems. This means no SMS alerts in the short term and that all members will have to opt in again if they want to receive the texts
Feb 13th – KopTalk has started a Twitter account
Feb 19th – Kraptalk Twitter account opens
Feb 25th – Oldham claims he is in Madrid to watch the Liverpool v Real match. He never provides any proof that he was even in the city, let alone at the game
Feb 27th – KopTalkers hear about Parry’s announcement that he will leave LFC in the summer from members posting what they have seen on Sky Sports News and read in the Echo

March – all we have seen so far of the Moar site is a few screenshots that could have been mocked up in a morning. We’ve yet to see a single video playing on these mock-ups, either
March – Oldham claims he is “currently investing $1300-$1500-a-month on Moar Video” and asks members to make donations
March – the Spanish-language KopTalk site has launched. It is described by a Spanish blog reader as having been “translated by a five year old”
March 11th – the official LFC site has blocked KopTalk from its Twitter feed
March 12th – a video on Blam shows Oldham has posted the personal details of former friends online, including information about their workplaces
March 13th – Oldham asks MV members if they would like to make “a substantial donation in return for a stake in MoarVideo.com”
March 15th – Oldham prints an email he claims is from a VIP member he has counselled who has suffered an ectopic pregnancy
March 16th – Oldham is “engaged” again
March 18th – Oldham claims Liverpool FC has started spamming his members and that the club offered him “something” to stop selling official club merchandise postage free
March 18th – Rafa agrees a new five-year deal. The first anyone on KopTalk hears about it is from a member who has read something on “the multi-coloured site” (ie RAWK)
March 19th – the “Player Profile” section on the KopTalk free site now has a total of two profiles, a mere four months after it was launched

April – Koptalk’s Ning site has launched
April – a new video website mocking Oldham has launched: paranoiavideo.com
April – Oldham’s new “girlfriend” is “Katie Couzins”
April 3rd – Oldham is pretending to be friends with Johnny Vegas again. Vegas is at this time providing the voiceovers for The S*n newspaper’s TV ads
April 12th – KopTalk no longer posts LFC goals and highlights for members, despite still advertising “WATCH THE GOALS FOR FREE DURING OR SHORTLY AFTER THE MATCH” on its sign-up page. Its advertised “LINKS TO WATCH LFC GAMES ONLINE LIVE & FREE” service consists entirely of links to the free myp2p site
April 25th – KopTalk’s second-biggest poster, Kop, leaves the site

May – Oldham makes more videos of himself showing off wads of cash
May – Oldham has launched a Moar Video shop at Cafe Press
May 2nd – a blog reader sets up a Kontalk shop at Cafe Press
May 4th – KopTalkers hear about Hyypia’s exit from a member who posts that that there will be a “Big story at 3PM on LFC.TV”. Oldham has no idea what it will be and replies: “They’ve had a stock delivery?”
May 13th – more members leave KopTalk to join the ScouserTommy site. Oldham posts an editorial to say he banned them
May 18th – Oldham is asking members do unpaid writing work for KopTalk
May 18th – one of Oldham’s LFC Twitter accounts includes LFC-related Tweets from The S*n’s Twitter feed
May 20th – KopTalk runs a story about Tevez from The S*n on its front page

June 4th – Oldham claims that the many KopTalk members who have recently left are still on the site but under different user names
June 12th – Oldham rants about the club having a video he’d uploaded to YouTube of the Hillsborough Memorial Match taken down
June 15th – after claiming that his Moar Video.com site was almost ready to launch, Oldham now says it won’t go live for another ten months because of the cost. His Moar Video.tv site now has a flashing “donate” button on its front page
June 17th – Oldham now claims that it will cost him another $13,000 before his Moar Video.com site is ready to launch
June 17th – someone has squatted on the www.facebook.com/koptalk account. Oldham won’t be happy about getting a taste of his own medicine
June 20th – Oldham’s new “girlfriend” “Kate Cousinz” turns out to be former KT moderator Katie Cushnahan

July 12th – rumours that Oldham has returned to the UK after running out of money in Spain. He certainly isn’t posting anywhere near as many videos as has over the past 18 months
July 14th – Oldham claims he will be going on holiday to Las Vegas and New York
July 15th – Steve leaves KopTalk. Oldham says he is departing so he can continue his education and that “There is a possibility that he will pop in one day”. He adds: “I’m sad as he’s been like a brother to me but my lad’s the same age as Steve when he first started helping on the site so maybe over the summer you will see him become more involved… obviously not with support tickets etc!
July 16th – both Steve and Katie have been removed from the KopTalk members list
July 17th – Oldham announces that he plans to visit New Orleans soon, in addition to the Vegas and NY trips
July 20th – still no sighting of KopTalk moderator “Lucy”
July 20th – it seems that Steve and Katie ran off together
July 22nd – Oldham once again excuses his use of stories from The S*n

Aug – eight months after promising a host of improvements for KopTalk, many have yet to occur
Aug 11th – Oldham says the Moar Video.com site is still three to six months from completion: “I need to raise just over $21,000 to complete the final phase of the first build. I will continue to work hard to raise that money but the begging bowl is out and I make no secret of that! If you are in a position to make a donation to help this project, please do so using the ‘Donate’ button at the far right. Every cent/penny helps and those who make donations will be remembered. Once the site is live I will introduce the team to you who developed her.”
Aug 12th – Oldham claims he still has two season tickets and asks KopTalk members if he can sell his seats for individual games via the offal. He states that “my seats are often empty for every Liverpool home league game”. A KT member asks him whether he can pass the tickets on to them and other members “who struggle getting tickets”. Oldham replies that he is not allowed to do so
Aug 12th – the KopTalk shoutbox has been taken down again, after members started asking awkward questions
Aug 18th – Oldham claims on KopTalk that Benitez is about to quit. He deletes the article shortly afterwards
Aug 18th – Oldham says there is an ongoing police investigation into people spamming (ie pointing out to them that Oldham is a con artist) KopTalk members
Aug 20th – Oldham now claims that “The police did get involved a few years back”, which contradicts his statement a couple of days earlier. He again states that “my children were targeted at school, along with other members of my family”
Aug 20th – Oldham says that he now lives in “a Detached 8 bedroom villa in Spain with its own pool and no mortgage”
Aug 21st – KopTalk’s “insiders” failed to predict the Kyrgiakos signing. The first KopTalkers heard of the deal was when a member copied and pasted an article from the Sky Sports website
Aug 23rd – there have been 300 posts on KopTalk in the past 24 hours
Aug 24th – Oldham claims that his disabled cousin Lauren is staying with him for a couple of weeks and that “I’ve been prevented from talking about the ins and outs of her paralysis for legal reasons but I hope to be able to provide you with a full update in the not too distant future when everything is resolved.”
Aug 24th – 14 new videos have been posted on Moar Video.tv in the past 24 hours, garnering a collective total of 206 views
Aug 25th – Oldham posts a video of himself driving, in which he claims he is following an ambulance containing a close relative who “is being rushed to hospital”

Sep 2nd – Oldham calls the mother of his children a “cunt” who he had two one-night stands with and says he “would murder her”
Sep 2nd – Oldham announces he is developing a KopTalk iPhone application
Sep 6th – a message from Oldham to the blog: “Well enemies u can now stand down for the night as he who knows best is retiring for the evening. Hope u die a slow & painful death. Night.”
Sep 6th – Oldham is begging for donations again on Moar Video: “We spend a minimum of $1300 every month developing the MoarVideo.com website and the MV team (owners and admin) contribute their time on a voluntary basis.”
Sep 9th – Oldham’s Twitter account is now private
Sep 9th – the KopTalk paid forums will switch from .co.uk to .com and the free forums will move in the opposite direction
Sep 13th – Oldham shows off another fake tattoo
Sep 15th – a new KopTalk podcast comes out. Oldham will record two more over the coming days and then lose interest in them again
Sep 16th – Oldham announces there will be no SMS updates for KopTalk members this week as he is going on holiday to the US. Oldham has previously claimed that he can’t go to LFC matches any more because he needs to be on KT full-time
Sep 16th – Debrecen match thread on KopTalk has just over 90 posts
Sep 17th – Oldham repeats claim that he has a season ticket in his latest podcast
Sep 18th – Oldham posts a photograph of 1000 Euros on his blog under the title “found-some-loose-change-in-ashtray”
Sep 19th – record low number of posts on KopTalk: 108 in 24 hours
Sep 19th – Oldham has a new Twitter account at twitter.com/ LFCMatchDayLive
Sep 19th – Oldham has been trying to cosy up to Paul Dalglish, Derren Brown and Peter Andre on Twitter
Sep 19th – Oldham is in London on the same day Liverpool play a match there, against West Ham. But Oldham doesn’t go to watch the game; instead he catches a plane to Las Vegas
Sep 21st – Oldham is in Las Vegas. He claims he has £10,000 spending money
Sep 21st – Oldham writes an open appeal on KopTalk for writers “to write articles for our history section on the main site”. He claims he will pay anyone who signs up for the work. It is unclear why one of the countless journalists from the national and local press who he says frequent KopTalk don’t do the job for him. (At the time of writing, spring 2010, a solitary player profile has been added to the site in the intervening six months)
Sep 23rd – it turns out Oldham has gone to Vegas with his mum
Sep 24th – Moar Video.tv is once again only accessible to members
Sep 25th – Oldham claims that a “member said in a support ticket ‘I’d rather give away a kidney than give up my KopTalk membership’. That’s just the way it is.”
Sep 26th – Oldham pretends he is in LA, for reasons known only to himself
Sep 27th – again for reasons known only to himself, Oldham pretends he is off to visit the Hoover Dam and then claims he is still in Vegas and may stay there for another week when he is already back in Spain

Oct 1st – Oldham has set up a new website (liverpoolfcsms.com) where he tries to sell SMS news updates for £50 a year
Oct 2nd – Oldham claims that someone has bought 10% of his Moar Video site
Oct 3rd – Oldham says he is planning a trip to New York
Oct 4th – in one of his most deranged posts (also here), Oldham claims on KopTalk that Benitez has “lost the dressing room” and that Ladbrokes once slashed their odds on Benitez leaving because of something Oldham wrote.
Highlights include: “‘Rafa Benitez has lost the dressing room,’ – that’s a statement that was spoken to me earlier today and it came via a senior first team Liverpool player.”
“‘Rafa could have had Wesley Sneijder during the negotiations for Xabi Alonso, that’s a fact,’ insists the source. And without giving too much away, he would know if this was a real possibility or not.”
“I know that Gillett (or Tom for that matter) is not behind my source because my source plans to speak to at least one of them (to protect the source I can’t say which one) over the coming weeks if Rafa does go, Kenny will want the job. I’m not speculating here, I know.”
“But because the source in relation to this cannot be questioned – because he’s extremely close to 3 people named in it – I had to get it out to you.”
Oct 12th – Oldham again posts a video of him showing off wads of cash
Oct 12th – Oldham claims that he works 12-18 hours per day on KopTalk. He has spent the majority of his time since November 2007 on vlogging websites, as is proven by the number of videos and comments he has posted on them
Oct 15th – the latest from KopTalk on Twitter: “RT @KopTalk: Received a text from Melwood saying Gerrard injury isn’t that bad and that he could still make it but may not be risked anyway” (so Gerrard might play, or he might not) and a text saying that Rafa has an offer to manage Real Madrid but may decide to stay at the club anyway
Oct 17th – blog reveals that SOS returned Oldham’s membership fee and that he is not a member of the union
Oct 22nd – Koptalk “sources” say there would be room for John Barnes or Jan Molby to assist in a new management team
Oct 23rd – Oldham claims to have renewed his SOS membership
Oct 25th – Oldham attends his first Anfield game in almost ten years. He sits in the Lower Centenary Stand, nowhere near the location of the seats behind the dug-outs that he has claimed for years he has season tickets for
Oct 28th – Oldham says: “Im going to go to about every home PL game now, Ive missed it too much.”
Oct 29th – Oldham is offering £10 off KopTalk memberships on Twitter
Oct 29th – SOS warns LFC supporters about KopTalk on Twitter
Oct 30th – Oldham is offering existing KopTalk members 50% discounts if they renew

Nov 2nd – Oldham boasts on Twitter that he earns at least £2,000 a month commission from BlueSquare
Nov 3rd – former KopTalk member Ytse Jam has still yet to receive a refund from Oldham, despite having been in email correspondence with him for eight weeks and agreeing to pay the refund to charity
Nov 4th – Ytse Jam finally gets his refund
Nov 10th – Oldham suspends work on MoarVideo.com until the New Year: “Since starting the project we now find ourselves enduring a global financial crisis and I simply do not have the funds available to throw at the development of the site at the moment”
Nov 11th – “new” KopTalk admin “Jimmy” appears

Dec 1st – Oldham in a YouTube video: “I live in Spain now and I don’t get the opportunity to mix with the players anymore, I used to when I lived in England, I would go to Liverpool where I have friends who own various clubs and restaurants and things, you could go on a saturday night and go to the VIP part of such clubs, I would be sitting with, Didi Hamann, Robbie Fowler, Sander Westerveld, Sami Hyppia”
Dec 3rd – Oldham is now creating Twitter accounts in the names of different LFC players
Dec 4th – KopTalkers learn that Torres is ruled out of tomorrow’s match when one of its members, IBB, picks up the news on This is Anfield and posts it on KopTalk
Dec 5th – less than 100 posts in the KopTalk match thread for the Blackburn game. There have een fewer than 500 posts on the site over the past 24 hours
Dec 6th – “MoarVideo.com is still very much planned. The construction of the .com website has been put on hold until the global credit crunch and associated financial markets recover from the current worldwide recession.
2010 may not see the arrival of the .com website but I can assure you that I will do what I can as quickly as I can to provide you what has been promised. There is no way that I will scrap the development of the .com website because of the time and money that has been invested.”
Dec 8th – SOS have deleted their KopTalk warning
Dec 9th – Oldham claims: “Was speaking with Jamie Carragher’s dad on the blower last night and his parting words were ‘Keep The Faith’.”
Dec 11th – KopTalk runs a news article about Klinsmann criticising Benitez which takes quotes directly from The S*n
Dec 15th – MoarVideo.com finally opens. After a year and a half of development and claims of an investment of tens of thousands of dollars, the site is a cheap, out-of-the-box, YouTube clone script called mediasharesuite which costs $162-$375. VIP memberships are $39.99 a year. Oldham says he’ll make a decision about further development of the “real” MoarVideo site on January 1st but that it will be at least ten months before it goes live even if he decides to go ahead with it
Dec 20th – deranged “news” article by Oldham on KopTalk. Highlights include: “Sources close to Jamie Carragher claim that the Liverpool defender feels that there are now more passengers in the side than ever before.”
“One source told us: ‘Any observer at a team-talk out on the green at Melwood will see there are more unhappy players than happy ones and this is the problem.’”
“KOPTALK strong links with sources at Real Madrid and they insist that Benitez was offered numerous players in the summer at reasonable valuations but he declined to take any of them.”
“Guus Hiddink and Jose Mourinho have been discussed. One of our sources is close to Jose though and he insists Jose is more bothered about protecting his reputation and that Liverpool could be too much of a gamble.”
Dec 21st – Oldham spams the BBC 606 forums with the above KopTalk article. It is quickly removed
Dec 29th – Tom Hicks confirms in an email to a blog reader that “I haven’t spoken or written to Duncan Oldham since April 2007 when he was in the U.S”

2010

Jan 2nd – KopTalk reports that Liverpool are interested in signing Maxi Rodriguez, a full day after it was reported in The Times, The Telegraph and the Daily Mail
Jan 7th – “The_Informer” reports on KopTalk that Maxi will undergo a medical today or tomorrow. In truth, the signing will not be completed until Jan 13th. The Rodriguez transfer has been widely reported in the national press since Jan 1st
Jan 7th – “wallet” posts on KopTalk to say: “I’ve just been told that one transfer has been completed (terms agreed and pending medical) and another is nearing completion. Both are incoming. It came via text so that’s all I have for now. I assume the first is Maxi.” The Rodriguez transfer has been reported in the national press since Jan 1st. Liverpool will make no other signings during this transfer window
Jan 9th – Oldham repeats his claim that he was once in the Army but was medically discharged due to a hip problem, which also scuppered his hopes of becoming a policeman
Jan 13th – “wallet” repeats his claim on KopTalk that a second transfer deal “is all but done”. There will be no second signing during this transfer window
Jan 13th – Oldham’s new MoarVideo.com site has attracted only 200 members
Jan 15th – Oldham returns to the UK. Strangely, after claiming he was going to attend every home match for the rest of the season, he chooses to come back on a weekend when Liverpool are playing away and doesn’t go the Spurs game at Anfield on Jan 20th
Jan 18th – in the past three days there have been seven videos posted on MoarVideo.com, and two of them are Oldham’s
Jan 23rd – Lecter has left KopTalk
Jan 25th – Oldham Tweets to say “I am no longer a vlogger”
Jan 25th – “The_Informer” claims on KopTalk that we will sign another player before deadline day. We won’t

Feb 9th – there have been eight new videos over the past two days at MoarVideo.com
Feb 13th – less than 100 posts in the previous 24 hours on KopTalk
Feb 14th – only 21 videos in the past week on Moar Video, despite Oldham resorting again to ripping videos off YouTube
Feb 25th – KopTalk’s Unirea match thread has 65 posts in it at full-time and didn’t even start until after the first goal
Feb 28th – this has been the second worst month ever in terms of the number of posts on KopTalk, with an average of just over 350 a day. There was one new member during the month and he (if he exists) hasn’t made a post yet

March 3rd – Oldham admits MoarVideo.com has failed: “It would appear that MoarVideo is no longer receiving the support that I had intended it to maintain. A lot of time, effort and money has been invested into MoarVideo but it simply counts for nothing at the end of the day.
At present I am considering my options. There’s no way I will invest any more money into MoarVideo that’s for sure. There are plenty of alternatives out there for you so it’s not like MoarVideo is needed. I may simply sink the site or I may transfer the site into an adult video sharing network and think about myself in terms of generating revenue opposed to providing something for others that they simply don’t want to use. Adult content does not interest me in the slightest but it pays well and I want to recoup my investment.
Personally I think vlogging is over for me.
If you supported the site by becoming a VIP member you will be refunded in full. I would ask you to contact me direct about that – it’s not a problem.”
March 4th – MoarVideo.tv re-opens
March 5th – MoarVideo.com has now become a porn site
March 9th – Oldham makes a repugnant, racist post on two of his blogs
March 16th – Oldham is now trying to make money out of his MoarVideo.tv Ning site. Members who don’t “provide original and frequent video content” are asked to “make a small donation of $12 / £8 to obtain an annual pass”

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