Who didn't see this coming. We will not editorialize as some of our views on Steve Cohen and World Soccer Daily are well known.
What we can tell you is that it should come as no surprise that a very effective boycott that was not just limited to Liverpool fans but also MLS fans who joined them in solidarity reached it's conclusion.
When Steve Cohen was let go by Fox Soccer Channel the writing was on the wall.
It should be noted that while Steve Cohen alleges his life was threatened by irate Liverpool fans a search through public records in Los Angeles, San Bernardino uncovered no police reports taken nor complaints filed by Cohen making part of his story suspect.
Beyond that, the following chart shows traffic to WorldSoccerDaily.com as well as MLSR and some other sites over the last year. It is clear that the boycott over insensitive comments made by Cohen not only affected Cohen's advertisers but his own fans as the traffic to the site dropped off substantially.
While some will miss Cohen and World Soccer Daily, there are a lot of great podcasts on the sport in this country (just take a listen to some of the ones along the right side of the page) and our own MLS Rumors podcast will launch sometime this fall. It should be noted also that we are on a first name basis with Dotun Adebayo, Tim Vickery and Sean Wheelock from the BBC as well as Glenn Davis from ESPN, Daniel Feurstein from CSRN and Steve Clare from Prost Amerika so access to the world of footy will not be a problem.
From the podcasting world will come the replacement for World Soccer Daily. We can guarantee you that before World Cup 2010 there will be another nationally syndicated football show on satellite radio and the internet so fear not.
Free speech never meant free to say what one wants without accepting the responsibility and consequences of others reactions to it.
http://www.mls-rumors.net/2009/08/outgoing-last-hurrah-as-world-soccer.html
