Dodgy rumours

[Rivvo 257]

The dodgy rumours site reckons we''ve signed Simon Cox on loan to the end of the season, there is also a reported loan signing of Tarmo Kink, also to the end of the season!

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,777]

[quote user="Rivvo"]The dodgy rumours site reckons we''ve signed Simon Cox on loan to the end of the season, there is also a reported loan signing of Tarmo Kink, also to the end of the season![/quote]Yeah, but they''re a load of bollocks. I''ve posted stupid ''rumours'' that I''ve made up off the top of my head on there before.There was also the famous Jan Koller hoax:[quote]Bored by lack of football news following the end of the season in England, some supporters of Sunderland decided to make up a transfer rumour.

They posted bogus claims on various fan sites that Czech international

Jan Koller was in negotiations with Sunderland — and equally bogus

claims that the news was on his current (German) club’s web site — and

then sat back to see if the media would bite.

Within hours the local paper ran the story on its back page (’Cats want Koller

- AMBITIOUS Sunderland want to sign giant Czech striker Jan Koller

[...] But enquiries are still at the very early stage for the Borussia

Dortmund forward…’). The following day the best selling tabloids picked

it up, including The Sun (’Cats eye giant Jan - Sunderland want

giant striker Jan Koller to fire them to Premiership safety. The Black

Cats are having talks with Borussia Dortmund in a bid to tie up a £1.5

million deal for the 32 year-old Czech.’) and The Mirror (’KOLLER & TIE-UP

- SUNDERLAND want giant striker Jan Koller to boost their chances in

the Premiership. The Black Cats are in talks with Borussia Dortmund in a

bid to tie up a £1.5million deal for the Czech international.’).

All lies, of course, and sourced initially from fan sites with made

up quotations being reproduced and false certainties and facts inserted

by some very lazy journos, probably on the basis of the local paper

story being fed to the PA and embellished to fill out the gaps.

Less than 48 hours after starting the rumour, the global television

media were on the case with the player’s agent had to contact Sky Sports

News to deny the claims appearing in the press: ‘These stories are a

major surprise and I think someone is dreaming up stories’. If only he

knew…[/quote]

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Tarmo Kink might be a good shout

[Wings of a Sparrow 1,410]

Is it just me or is it pretty pointless to put made up rumours on the Dodgy Rumours website, unless they are so fantastically unbelievable.

[pete_norw 0]

[quote user="Wings of a sparrow"]Is it just me or is it pretty pointless to put made up rumours on the Dodgy Rumours website, unless they are so fantastically unbelievable.[/quote]

Have you seen the one about Ched Evans coming and be in the team on Saturday, Can''t stop Laughing.

[AndyJR 0]

It''s a site, slightly less factual than the ''Sun'' newspaper. Make of that what you will.

[Lets be aving you! 0]

Tarmo Kink, Aleksandr Kokko, Simon Cox ... a bit of a theme developing?

Next it''ll be Danny Shittu.

[Guest]

The clue is in the name of the site.[;)]

[Jim Smith 2,314]

If its the same guy who doesn;t get into the Middlesborugh side then why would it be a good shout?