It is our great honor to be afforded the opportunity to speak with the top historian of the game in N. America, the one and only Colin Jose on the MLS Talk Podcast. The interview will take place tomorrow and will cover the following subjects.

- Canadian Football "Soccer" from the late 1800s to World War II

- The American Soccer League's Golden Years 1919-1933

- The NASL

- The US in the 1930, 34 and 50 World Cups.

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A Liverpool website started a campaign to stop the selling of the 'Without Killing Anyone' t-shirt on the RoM shop. As a result, I received a good 50 or so e-mails calling me a 'Munich cunt', telling me I was the scum of the earth, and several wrote to tell me they hoped I died in a plane crash. Some of them jumped to conclusions and thought for some reason that I was the bloke behind that ridiculous '96 wasn't enough' shirt in the news recently.

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By now most of you are certainly aware that Hysterical Bedwetter..excuse me, I mean Football Mega-Expert Steven Cohen is threatening...damn, sorry....is promising a new version of his late, lamented World Soccer Daily.
Not surprisingly, since that company is in trouble with the California Attorney General for various bits of malfeasance, his new show is called World Football Daily. Click to continue reading...

So you thought you could eliminate Steven Cohen and his reporting of the beautiful game, well think...
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For those that love football and the need to vent, well good news.Steven Cohen and Kenny Hassan are back with World Football daily.It is subscription based. But with all the news and events that have happened,Eduardo's dive and Wengers response, Inter's drubbing of old and tired Milan.Roma's inability along with Juve's rebirth. Click to continue reading...

EDIT: Steven Cohen has asked that we postpone the interview at least one week. We will still release a podcast tomorrow night talking Bundesliga, thoughts on the weekend's Premier League action, and a few other tidbits. It has been a busy three...
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(Can a simple name change effect results?)

Last Friday, August 21st, 2009 was in my opinion a small step back for football in this country. The controversial day marked the end of World Soccer Daily, the only daily football talk show in America. The sense of community that I & so many other American European football fans found at WSD will truly be missed.

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Around 3:30 Friday I got a call from Karik Krishnaiyer.
He sounded somewhat distraught and his tone of voice was not as energetic as it usually is when it comes to stories that he scoops. This one he had not desire of sharing or even talking about.
World Soccer Daily was no more. Click to continue reading...

World Soccer reader is reporting that Steven Cohen's recently ended World Soccer daily may soon return with a new name and new method of delivering its excellent daily broadcast.
"World Soccer Daily will be back. It will be back as World Football Daily with Kenny and me as a subscriber driven 2-3 hour daily video/podcast," Cohen's Facebook post confirmed. Click to continue reading...

I have been working three jobs at a stretch of seven days a week for months now. My Itunes membership to World soccer daily had not downloaded a show for a few days and i didn't become suspicious partly because i was tired and partly due to my ignorantly thinking Steven Cohen had probably extended his vacation another week. Click to continue reading...

An event like the demise of Steven Cohen's personal vehicle World Soccer Daily offers a writer any number of literary allusions from which to draw both inspiration and clever title.
For example, you could go with Hemingway: "A Farewell to Cohen"
Or Shakespeare: "I come to bury Cohen, not to praise him"
For fans of 1930's gangster movies, there's of course "Is this the end of Stevo? Click to continue reading...

"Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill"
So I'm sure most of you know by now that Steven Cohen has shut down World Soccer Daily. On Friday's edition of WSD, the broadcaster revealed that his decision was made after some random nutter(s) contacted his stepchildren (via Twitter) and friends. Click to continue reading...

For the moment it seems Steven Cohen and World Soccer Daily are done. Cohen announced today that today's show would be the final one, apparently blaming threats against his family as the determining factor. If there were legitimate threats against his family, I hope he reported them to the proper authorities and those responsible are punished. Click to continue reading...

His name is Antony Ananins, known to many as Tony New Mexico, a frequent poster on various Liverpool and soccer related message boards (including the World Soccer Daily boards) and the founder of a Facebook group called "Putting Steven Cohen Straight". Thanks to Tony's efforts and the efforts of many others, people have been able to express their disagreement with Steven Cohen's much publicized comments concerning the events surrounding the Hillsborough tragedy, comments that led to the LFCNY's sponsorship boycott. Click to continue reading...

Steven Cohen contacted me via e-mail yesterday afternoon and requested I post the entire e-mail chain between he and Tony that included the comment about his wife's birthday. I'm going to post it, per Steven's request, because however you feel about Cohen and even if you don't feel he deserves it, everyone should be able defend themselves and tell their side of the story. Click to continue reading...

Quick recap: Steven Cohen is the Los Angeles based (former?) TV/radio host who in April 2009 made the controversial claim that ticketless Liverpool fans were to blame for the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. In response, the Liverpool Supporters Club New York organized a boycott of Cohen's sponsors and attempted to have him removed from the airwaves. Click to continue reading...

Tomorrow marks the third inaugural "Beckham invades DC Tour". I've been to the two before, and I'll be to the third. In the two previous meetings, we saw two wins for DC, and the win last year in decisive fashion. The circumstances leading up to tomorrow's match are starkly different, with DC United on a steep decline and LA Galaxy as hot as fire.

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Controversial DJ bows out after Hillsborough comments Radio host Steven Cohen has announced that his show World Soccer Daily will come off the air after internet hate mail directed at his stepchildren. As you read on OTP, Cohen courted controversy in recent months with comments he made about the Hillsborough disaster. Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you watch Alan Brogan and wonder: "How much better would the Irish national team be if all the Gah players switched to soccer?"* The Offside finally blowing bubbles again (West Ham Offside) To the internet! (Studs Up) Ryan Babel: earplug salesman (Three Match Ban) 100 Years of Internacional (See The Cup) Plastic pitch = plastic football [. Click to continue reading...

I'm reading this all over Twitter. (Again, Twitter w/ the breaking news!)Â
Top American radio soccer talk show World Soccer Daily is broadcasting its last day today. American soccer fans picked up the EPL on ESPN last week - an historic day for footie fans in the US, but today they lose their top radio talk show. Click to continue reading...

Citing the on going attacks from Liverpool fans, World Soccer Daily is no more. Steven Cohen made the announcement at the start of the show today that Friday would be the last show. Saw them in Philly last year and had a great time. Thanks for doing a great show and this is a sad day for American Soccer. Click to continue reading...

(This is a long one, gang. Say I warned you not, do not.)
A few weeks ago, I said that Steven Cohen's claims of intimidation were completely frivolous and fanciful. I said he was only making those claims in order to engender sympathy from the misinformed and/or gullible. I said if there really were this kind of threats, anything resembling this kind of horrible behavior, it would be a matter for law enforcement. Click to continue reading...

Official Press Release
New York, Wednesday 29th July 2009 – In a stunning rebuke and continuation of his isolation from the football world, Fox Soccer Channel (FSC) today announced that Steven Cohen would not be returning to host the FSC show Fox Football Fone In (FFF) which he has co-hosted for 4 years. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday I posted the latest press release from the LFCNY concerning their ongoing campaign against Steven Cohen.
This morning I now find myself in the middle of a shit storm.
Here is the short version, or at least as short as I can make this.
If you read the LFNCY statement, you probably noticed the name Mark Sawyer, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, who attempted to mediate and negotiate an end to the LFCNY boycott of Steven Cohen. Click to continue reading...

| INCOMING <--------------------------> OUTGOING |
Longtime, loyal readers of MLSR saw the dismissal of FSC's Fox Football Fone-In host Steve Cohen a mile away. Back in May we published the following:
REPORT: World Soccer Daily's Steve Cohen in Hot Water as Sponsors Abandon Ship
Today we learn from that Eric Wynalda, will replace him
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According to the USA Today's soccer blog, Steven Cohen - whose comments about the Hillsbrough disaster caused all sorts of trouble recently - is being replaced as host of the Fox Football Fone-In television show by... Eric Wynalda. The same Eric Wynalda who was suspended, and eventually canned, by ESPN for saying "Jim Rome can suck [. Click to continue reading...

"We have distanced ourselves and will continue to distance ourselves from any comments that disrespect the memory of Hillsborough.
"We can see no benefit of giving him legitimacy by the club singling him out. Giving Mr. Cohen oxygen is the worst thing we could do.
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Eric Wynalda is back in broadcasting.
The Hall of Famer and former ESPN commentator will join Fox Football Fone-In, Fox Soccer Channel's Monday night call-in show, when the show's sixth season starts Aug. 10 at a new time of 7 p.m. ET.
"I enjoyed covering the games," Wynalda says. Click to continue reading...

Official Press Release
Chelsea FC rejects Steven Cohen, condemn his lies about Hillsborough.
New York, Wednesday 22nd July 2009 - Over 50 percent of Steven Cohen's original sponsors, including such companies as Heineken and FourFourTwo have left his show, World Soccer Daily. These sponsors have left because they cannot afford to be associated with Steven Cohen's lies and hate. Click to continue reading...

Before you read this post, you might want to go through the first post in this now series of post.
Then again, you might be tired of this and don't want to read about it anymore and that's alright too I guess. Still, in the interest of offering the full story, I've posted below the fold the full version of one of Mark Sawyer's emails, seems he left off a portion of it when he sent it to me the first time. Click to continue reading...

First, my quick opinion.
To the individual who sent this email, and to all the other people who have sent similar e-mails to Steven Cohen. STOP! You're not helping, you are morons.
UPDATE: Some have asked in the comments how the suspended corporation status might effect any legal action by LFC or former sponsors over Cohen's comments. Click to continue reading...

Conor Brennan, VP of the LFCNY, has done an interview with The Empire of the Kop website. If you've been following the campaign and my stories concerning Cohen and World Soccer Daily, I suggest you head over and check it out.

Conor, the Anti-Cohen campaign seems to be quiet right now?

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Four At The Back tries and fails to come to terms with the Confederations Cup this week. Well, I shouldn't speak for Kenn in that case. Kenn interviews Tom Wynn of the Milwaukee Wave, and Roger Allaway, author of "Corner Kicks and Corner Offices" "Corner Kicks and Corner Offices"
"Corner Kicks and Corner Offices" - it's Plutarch's "Parallel Lives," except with the Cosmos and Bethlehem Steel. Click to continue reading...

The World Soccer Daily Petition and Fund Raising Web Pages both were heavily edited and elicited forceful reactions from groups involved.
In the weeks following Steven Cohen's statements about Hillsborough and the subsequent LFCNY boycott campaign, two web pages appeared. One on a petition website and another on a fundraiser website, both in support of World Soccer Daily and Steven Cohen. Click to continue reading...

I hope all of you are sitting down because, well, here's something that will come as a shock:
It appears that Steven Cohen may have been the moving force behind the online "Supporter's Petition" as well as the website set up to collect donations for his show.
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