Steven Cohen is not the most thoughtful or compassionate or self-aware football warrior in our ranks. But he is among the brightest, most knowledgeable and articulate English commentators on the game in this hemisphere. And his partner, Kenny Hassan, is the most sober and substantive Scotsman in the world football commentating community next to Bobby McMahon.
Their show, World Soccer Daily, for 7 years has been the epicenter of American soccer culture. Hundreds of thousands of
About 5 months ago, Steven made some off-colour and ill-advised statements about the 96 Liverpool fans who perished under the feet of their own brethren on Sept. 15, 1989, in what has come to be known as the Hillsboro Disaster.
Most fans of the world’s game know that there is a segment of the
Ever since Steven’s comments this spring, these
“I believe that if this goes on, people are going to get hurt, people are going to get killed, and it’s just not worth it, it’s simply not worth it,” Cohen said.
“It’s just a stupid crusade,” said Hassan. “Tell people don’t listen to the show, but to harass us off the air, families and the threats and stuff, it just went too far.”
So, here comes the irony. There are decent Liverpool fans, but they have been made irrelevant by fuck heads who have now destroyed the best English-language football show this side of the
If you are a living, breathing, thinking, aware, human soccer fan in the
The Luchametric is a 
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What about Chelsea distancing themselves from Cohen? They prohibited anyone associated with the club from appearing on the show as long as Cohen was still on.
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