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Liverpool's Kolo Toure offers to change name for fan who suffered tattoo blunder

Published: September 6 2013 | 10:23

Last updated: September 7 2013 | 17:52

Liverpool defender Kolo Toure offers to change his name for a fan, whose tattoo tribute to the player is misspelled on his foot.

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Liverpool defender Kolo Toure has offered to change his name for a supporter, who suffered a blunder when he had the player's name tattooed on his foot.

Young fan, said to be be 20-year-old Dom Pearson, is believed to have wanted to pay tribute to Liverpool's summer signing with a tattoo, but the end result was a misspelled version of the defender's name - 'Kolo Touro'.

Upon seeing the design on social networking website Twitter, Toure offered to change his name for the supporter.

I had far too many beers and thought getting Kolo tattooed on me was a good idea. The knob spelt it wrong. pic.twitter.com/yvR6jpUyye
— Dom (@domjpearson) September 3, 2013

Toure also later tweeted Pearson saying that he wanted to meet the fan and asked whether he should change the name on the back of his Reds shirt to 'Touro'.