Show Support for WSD

If you miss World Soccer Daily, there is a simple way to show support...

on any of the soccer blogs (ives, MLS-R) simply reply to any and all posts with something like this (feel free to copy and paste)

"Sorry, but I disagree with an opinion you have, so I'm going to contact all your sponsors in an attempt to ruin your financial livelihood. You have to realize this is America and there is a price to be paid for saying anything anyone might disagree with."

or something similar. If you want, add the line A.C.E.L. (Any club except Liverpool) to help brand the backlash. If not, that's cool too.

But let's stay classy and not get into the whole threats thing.

 

Guess what, Ives deletes any comment you make like the one above. I posted that comment in a couple threads and they've all been deleted! Just for the record, other off-topic posts have been left on the board.

I'm going to keep him busy deleting comments today if he doesn't let it stand.

 

I guess its a sign that Ives is scared to even report on the issue that he is not going to let himself be dragged into the firing line of the LFC crazies (the minority of the fans that send death threats being crazy, the minority of the fans that launched the boycott to destroy the major outlet for soccer fans in this country shouldn't be called crazy, just fanatics or zealots). Make up you own opinion on what it says that he deletes any reference to the issue in the comments section now.

And it shows support for WSD by pointing out how ridiculous the whole boycott was. These guys have declared victory and are patting themselves on the back for their "great job" of destroying the ONLY daily source for mass soccer discussion other then blogs in this country. Furthermore, it might disrupt the guys over at MLS-R who helped fuel this whole mess and stand to benifit from it by launching their own podcast. MAYBE you can argue that Ives deserves better, but I'm really disapointed he won't even step into the discussion. I never pegged him as a coward before.

 

Ives has spent some time this morning deleting my posts, until someone else got him to respond to one about how he's censoring them. He claimed he's stopping "threadjacking" by deleting any posts that were off topic. I don't think he's done this before, or at least not much.

All said, he's probably wise not to stick his neck out there for the crazies to threaten his family.

 

I think tellling hicks you'd never support his Rangers is a bit like calling up coke and telling them you'd never buy new coke... today. I don't think he expects anyone to support them outside of Texas and he'd never notice it. Now, if i lived in Arlington then I'd probably have a bigger impact. Now if Liverpool ever came to America on tour we'd have an opportunity to boycott, but as is, they can't get their brand out there here anyway.

Are there any American teams that have some type of alliance with Liverpool? Like the Rapids-Arsenal or such?