Liverpool Delhi Supporters' Club launches DelhiKop SuperLeague

To mark the occasion of its founder's birthday, Liverpool Delhi Supporters Club launched a mini classic league DelhiKop SuperLeague at Premier League Fantasy Football. All you need to do is just signup for this free football manager game, join the league, enter the private code for the league which is 17060-7640 and manage your dream football team. Test your football managing skills to the test against your fellow kopites.

That's not all, there are great prizes up for grabs. The overall winner of the DelhiKop SuperLeague will get a Liverpool Jersey of his choice (Home or Away for current season or next season). Also, the person who finishes top of the monthly leaderboard will be declared manager of the month, prizes will be announced as and when it happens.

However, their are certain set of rules and conditions, along with the rules of fantasy league, that participants need to follow:

• Your Team needs to have at least one player from Liverpool FC in your dream team for you to claim the monthly or the overall winners prize.
• The Manager/participant needs to be registered at our database for him to claim his prize.

For Further details you can visit our website at: http://www.delhikop.com/home/contests

LDSC via its Facebook page and website will be updating the leader board every week after the gameweek is over. Subsequent announcements will be made related to the winners.

Manage your dream team and compete with the best.

YNWA!

DelhiKop and Hillsborough Justice Campaign

Today, Liverpool Delhi Supporters' Club - Delhi Kop is proud to announce that we'll be distributing official HJC shirts to the winners of some of our competitions. As far as LDSC is concerned, it's a matter of great pride and feeling of satisfaction to be associated with such a worthy cause.

Hillsborough happened 22 years ago when some officials failed to anticipate the consequences and opened the gates of the Leppings Lane end of the Hillsborough stadium on 15th April 1989. What followed was massive overcrowding in the stands resulting in the unfortunate deaths of 96 Liverpool FC supporters. While that served as an eye opener to English FA and football clubs and helped introduced systems like 'full-seating' stadia, the actual reasons for the disaster were never established. Even though the wide spread common knowledge is that the fault was with the authorities, the people in-charge have failed to act upon it and punish those responsible. Apart from those dead, the disaster left the families as well as severely traumatized. This article by Tony Evans serves more than narrating how the survivors feel till this date. If you'd like to know more about how a family feels about such a disaster and the actions thereof, here is a good read.

To make matters worse, a disgusting, deluded editor of a newspaper (tabloid) called The Sun published a few days later that Liverpool fans were stealing from the dead (while they were looking for the wallets for IDs), urinating on policemen etc. What followed was the biggest boycott of any newspaper in the history. 'Don't Buy The Sun' is something that resonates worldwide and unites the Liverpool fans as well as the fans of other football clubs.

We, the fans in India, have always been away from such tragedies. Our own tragedies have had far worse body counts. But the apathy towards the dead and the lack of justice is something that's appalling by any standard. LDSC fully supports the cause of justice and would like to do whatever is humanly possible for the cause.

As a first step, Delhi Kop has decided that the prized we give out for our competitions thru the year would mostly comprise of HJC merchandize. This, we thought, is the minimum we could do for such a worthy cause. As a special gesture to the supporters of Liverpool Football Club as well as those who support the Hillsborough Justice Campaign in Delhi area, Debi McMillan, the face of HJC, has agreed to personally sign each and every shirt or scarf or any other item for us. This sign of gratitude would be on the shirts that are given as a prize for the competitions as well as if you wish to purchase them independently. If some of you guys wish that we should bulk order them, please do let us know on reds@delhikop.com with the subject 'HJC order request'.

We've desired, craved for the 19th for 21 years and now that Kenny is here we can hope it would come to us sooner than later. I personally desire Justice For The 96 more than the 19th.

YNWA you 96 angels!

Delhi Kop Shirt Numbers

Here is one small announcement. We will soon be giving out 'symbolic' shirt numbers to all our members. This is a small step and may help us feel like a team. The shirt numbers would be different from any membership numbers we might roll out later (we're working out the numbering system). These numbers would primarily be ornamental but eventually there would be items on which you'd be able to display them.

Given the size of the community, we'll roll out numbers in two phases - 0 to 99 and then 100-999 - but not beyond. Moreover, since the numbers are so few (1000 only), we'd like to first offer these to those who belong to the Delhi Area only. 

Needless to say, there would be competition for numbers. These numbers would be exclusively available to those who've registered with us. Those who haven't, there's still time - do so by clicking here. In case of conflict, preference would be given to one who would have registered earlier. Final decision would rest with us. 

Those who would like one of these may please send in your three preferred numbers as an email to reds@delhikop.com with "Delhi Kop Shirt Number Preferences" as the subject. 

Hope ya'll like this initiative. 

Spam Alert: DelhiKop is going places. There would be plenty of announcements in the next 8-10 weeks, so brace yourselves!

I AM A RED - Contest

Participate to win exciting prize. All you need to do is post a Picture on our/event wall which shows the love for Liverpool FC. Most likes get an attractive LFC T-shirt. Most creative pic wins an admin choice award which happens to be an exclusive LFC scarf.

Keep Posting and spread the word around...

Liverpool Delhi Supporters' Club.

You'll Never Walk Alone.

Why Charlie Adam will be a KOP hero..

I’ll start by saying that I was thrilled with the (eventual) signing of Charlie Adam. God sake we have been after him for ages. I only read about Charlie Adam last year when Blackpool got promoted. It was only in the article at dailymail titled "5 players from promoted teams to look out for" and I snaped him and Caroll up in my fantasy football team. And what a bargain he proved out for £4.5M. He is someone who I believe will take the club to a new level and I have many reasons to believe that he can/will be a new cult hero at ANFIELD.

I’m supporting my argument on a following 5 factors which give me cause for optimism.

1) He wants to play for the club.
Appointment of Kenny has brought a sense of belongings back to the club backyard. He has iterated this fact from the very beginning that players will be signed, but only those who wants to play for the club. We made couple of significant signings last season, but those moves were more geared on financial front rather than players coming in for the love of the club. Now when players comes out in open and says that his heart is all set to play for Liverpool, you have to get him in the team. Not only will Charlie Adam give his 100%, but Kenny will try and strive to get something extra out of him.

2) He is an international, experienced and important team player.
Not only does he qualify in the British quota, he also highlights the fact that he is an important and integral part of Scotland's International Football Team. Moreover, he symbolises a mettle of a good team player. All around the transfer saga, he never complained, nor he felt outraged when Blackpool rejected his transfer request. Like a dutiful son, he understood his responsibility and tried his level best to fulfill most of them. Most important thing about him is that he has the experience of playing in English conditions and that too at the top level as well.

3) His free kicks are worth £10M.
Well hate him or call him a shitpad, Alex Ferguson has seldom been wrong. And if we were to agree with him, then £9M is a bargain. But what I want to convey from his statement is that this guy provides the ammunition to prove that £35M was well spent. He will not only compliment Caroll, but will be a dangerous proposition to contend with when it comes to a dead ball situation. We have lacked the firepower or class of a genuinely good free-kick specialist. Gerrard has his own way, but being a traditionalist I would love a curling kick beating oppositions GK for a goal.

4) We’ve been desperately short of a quality left foot for ages
Well Left side has been a curse for us over the decade or so. We have tried many players but to no avail. I will be foolish to say Adam will solve our left wing problem, because I don't foresee him playing in that position, but my argument is that a left footed playmaker is often useful and better suited to the game. At £9M or so I believe Adam represents a decent addition to the squad and one worth a few extra points over a season, points which could well be the difference between Champions and failure.

5) No Manager chauffers his players to medical
Now don't agree with any of the above enumerated arguments, but a fan can understand the importance of a player when he sees a club manager himself escorting his new signing. Here I am not talking about any ordinary manager, the one mentioned is KING KENNY, a legend at Anfield, one who himself is idolised by any LFC fan. And when King himself takes Charlie Adam for a medical, it strikes out any argument. For that matter any Tom, Dick and Harry fan can have an opinion about some Tom, Dick and Harry player, but, when a legend or our club manager has so much confidence, regards and respect for Adam, he is got to be something special. This guy is here to stay and rock the KOP.

All in all I have confidence and sense of optimism that we will be different and our approach will be different this season. So remember where we were a year ago, remember who’s in charge now, remember that it takes time to rebuild that which took almost 20 years to wreck, and remember that we are still the greatest club on earth with the greatest fans. Remember all of that and give the King a chance to make things right again.

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Cheers
Ankit

Liverpool Delhi Supporters' Club a.k.a. "Delhi Kop"

The first steps to consolidate LFC supporters in Delhi/NCR region were taken way back in 2007 thru a small community on Orkut - the most popular social networking site of that time. The group organized screenings and one of the most memorable ones in the early formative years was the screening of the epic MUFC 1-4 LFC at the All Sports Bar in early 2009.

Later, with facebook becoming a craze, we thought a page on facebook should suit us better and that was probably the biggest step taken so far in the little history of this group. Less than 7 months down the line, we have 1700+ likes on the facebook page. The pace and the response has been unbelievable. 

Today, LDSC is available on most internet fora and we, at LDSC, are ever so grateful to all those who constitute this community for the brilliant response. In capturing the essence of what this mighty group is about, we are calling our internet presence by the name of - Delhi Kop. It truly captures the feelings of all the supporters - the love for the football club, the love for togetherness (creating a mini Kop during screenings), and the love for the region where we live. 

LDSC is available on the following fora:

* Facebook: www.facebook.com/DelhiKop

* Twitter: www.twitter.com/DehliKop

* Blogs: DelhiKop.blogspot.com

* Web: www.DelhiKop.com

Thank you to all and YNWA! 

Jamie Carragher Signs A Shirt for LDSC

Jamie Carragher has signed a shirt for Delhi Kop expressing his thanks to our efforts for the 23 Foundation. We would like to reiterate that the honor is all ours in this case and would like to thank Carra in return for giving us have the opportunity to serve in such a noble cause. 

Fellow reds can help the cause by clicking here. Please note that all proceeds go to the 23 Foundation. Against a copy of your receipt, LDSC is also going to present to you an exclusively designed t-shirt. 

Own a piece of legend himself and in the process you can help a child's future. Show your red heart!

Transfer Madness

What a crazy summer!!

But, it's good because it's going crazy about people coming in and not about people going out. Unbelievably, there have been 66 players linked to us in June alone! Gone are the days when people used to worry about Stevie or Pepe or Torres going away. The only talk seems to be about people coming in, people not wanting to leave and in worst case, 'who the club wants to sell' rather than 'who the club is trying to convince to stay'.

That said, what's disappointing is that so many of players linked with us have been snapped up by rivals. Personally, I would have liked Young in our red shirt than any other. But so be it. Wickham's non-transfer wasn't a bad deal after all. We already have many promising youngsters. I'd love to see the likes of Pacheco and Sterling getting a go instead of getting another youngster to compete with them and not with the first-teamers.

The European window is now open and the race should really hot up now. The problem areas remain. Wings and Left Back areas are not vacant. Let's see who we get for those.

Another concern remains about offloading the 'deadwood' in the team. Jovanovic, Poulsen, Cole, N'gog, Maxi, Aurelio, Aquilani all awaiting sales. There's talk about Agger being offloaded too. Would be sad to see that happen. Cole and Aqua not living up to their promise is unfortunate too.

Being in India, twitter and other such sites remain a constant source of news and rumours. However, on a personal note, I think we need to shut them somewhat if we don't want to be too worked up by the contradictory reports!

YNWA!

Welcome

Fellow Reds,

Welcome to your own blog site. I hope this latest attempt by us to connect and share is received well.

Since, the blog engine is blogger, you can use your google account to start posting. Send us an e-mail on reds@delhikop.com and we'll set you up. Please include 'Blogging Application' in the subject line.

Please don't hold back and speak away whatever you wish...!

YNWA
Kaushal