Did anyone donate to the two "soldiers" stood by the canal bridge? If so I'm sorry to tell you they were two con men. A mate of mine reported them to the stewards but was told there was nothing they could do as they weren't on the DW site.

Didnt have any money on me but would have done if I had! What scumbags.

are you sure, they were in the south stand bar before the game

Exactly. What are they doing drinking when they were in uniform and supposed to be collecting? Why were they the only two collectors at the game? Why din't they stand on the Duggy bridge like all other charity collectors do? Finaly when my mate was pointing them out to the stewards as they made off with their buckets of loot the word they looked somewhat nervous.

sh*t houses to thimk i felt bad about havin no change

There were 2 collecting near the ground just after the bingo hall. It was for post traumatic stress.

That is the trouble with these things, you can never be quite sure if people are genuine or not. It is absolutely disgusting if true.

There were three of them on the path from the Robin Park shopping centre. Looked legit to me.

I gave these guys a couple of quid, I hope they were legit, if not I wont be giving anything to any bucket collectors again. If it was a con though why bother making wristbands?

I give um a £1 and he give me a wristband but I think there was 3 of them , to tell you the truth I did nt really look at them proper I just saw the uniform so I put a £1 in and went to walk straight past and he shouted here have a wrist band . Sad f@ckers if true tho

I gave to two men stood near the old Kudos night club. Shower of b*stards if true!

I threw a few quid in. Really disappointing if this is true.

What made your mate think they were fake?

They did. I walked past one of the blokes on the bridge behind the East Stand.

They we also giving stickers out to kids who put money into the buckets.

Why not just tell the police?

Interesting this has been mentioned.

I remember thinking at the time that they didn't look anything like soldiers. Plus, they were accosting people and actually asking them for donations, which I'm pretty sure collectors for charities are not allowed to do.

That said, I only didn't give because I didn't have any change.

You're correct I've done collections for Alder Hey in the past and we were given strict instructions to just stand there and only speak to them to thank them or if they ask questions.

I'm not sure they were fake though. We had this when we were doing our collection (went round pubs in Newton) and we only had the letter of authorisation (on headed watermarked Alder Hey paper) and people kept telling us it was fake because we didnt all have a photo id cards. Do they not realise that printing such things and the lanyards etc could mean that more is spent than is collected?

I dont remember them but a dead giveaway would be the buckets they used. They're usually obliged to use a certain bucket with this lid on that secures with a special seal that is voided if removed. If they didnt have that then chances are they were fake and theyre the lowest of all scum. I hope they werent fake though because, as I've mentioned before, my friend had his leg shattered by an Afghan sniper and that money that help for heroes collect goes to good places and I would hate to see their name taken advantage of in this way.

I hope the club come forward and either confirm or dismiss these rumours because they could be damaging to future collections.

I don’t think they were fake the steward’s were talking to them when I walked past and moved them as they need permission to collect there from the club, there was kids collecting for armature rugby club behind them (they must have had permission for that game). They told the 2 chaps to go up to Canal Bridge as was not stadium grounds. They looked genuine to me they have yellow sealed buckets and blue t-shirts with the charity on it

I thought straight away they didnt look right because of the stuff they were saying to get you to donate. A few people not on here mentioned them at work yesterday too.

Not sure if the ones i walked past are the same that you are referring to but the reason that i didnt donate was exacly the same.

We walked over the bridge and there was a guy in full army uniform with a berrett on shouting out at people to give gerousley to the british army - its was more the way he said it than what he said.

I think there may of been a kid with him too but i cant remember - they were shaking yellow buckets as people walked down the steps of the bridge.

I only usually ever give money to the amateur clubs because they are always polite.

Yeh sounds like the same guys i walked past. By the time i walked down they was over the canal (not the stadium side) and shouting the weirdest things, 'dont let our heroes down' and like you say in the tone they were speaking. If they turn out to be genuine then they need to improve their selling techniques. I wouldnt advise a career in cold calling.

Was they not giving wrist bands with a web site on has anybody got one and checked it out ?

It's very rare that Soldiers would be out collecting in uniform, and if they were, I seriously doubt they would be barracking people for money. It's normally done to help out another organisation such as the Legion or SSAFA, and even then, they would probably wear high vis vests etc... If they were real, I'd expect them to be the local battallion, so Duke of Lancasters Regiment, and if they were, their head dress should have looked like this:

I noticed as well i have never donated to ANY bucket collection at the DW but i noticed that the 2 "soldiers" had BOOMING voices almost as aggresivley trying to get people to donate