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.