July 23, 2009
LFCNY: Chelsea FC rejects Steven Cohen
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. Steven Cohen has chosen to denigrate 96 dead Liverpool fans whose only failing was supporting their team. Hillsborough was a tragedy of immense proportions in the game of football, but to this day, Steven Cohen sees it as a way to deride Liverpool fans. Everyone connected with the game knows what happened at Hillsborough.
Chelsea Football Club, nominally the club Steven Cohen supports, know what happened and its position has been made very clear in both matchday programmes, and an on-pitch recognition during last season’s FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal. When asked for a comment about Steven Cohen’s hateful comments by the LFCNY, Gareth Mills, spokesman for Chelsea FC said, “we have distanced ourselves and will continue to distance ourselves from any comments that disrespect the memory of Hillsborough.” Mr. Mills went on to say, “that match [FA Cup semi final] marked the anniversary of tragic events that impacted the whole football community. Our players and staff have gone on the record with supportive comments and statements.” Everyone in football knows. Except Steven Cohen, that is. You don’t need an online criminal justice degree to know this.
Asked specifically about Steven Cohen, Mr. Mills was at pains to emphasize Chelsea’s disgust and looked to put as much distance between the West London club and merchant of hate, Steven Cohen, “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……..He is not a representative, nor ever has been a representative of the club. We have some 90 million fans worldwide and cannot account for every fan’s opinion.”
How often does it happen in the football world that a club rejects a fan?
(We would also point out that Steven Cohen has not interviewed any member of Chelsea FC during their ongoing tour of North America on his show).
Steven Cohen has said many, many times that no one is going to change his mind about his Hillsborough smears. Liverpool fans killed their own, he says; they are scum, he says; they are murderers, he says; and the Hillsborough Justice Campaign is the most corrupt organization, he says. This is what Steven Cohen believes. Too often, when confronted by his own lies, smears and hate, Steven Cohen has walked back his comments, waited for the tempest to die down, and resumed business as usual. Lying about 96 Liverpool fans who never came home from a different FA Cup semi final.
But the tempest is not blowing over this time, will not be dying down. Steven Cohen’s apologies are never longstanding and always worthless. The LFCNY has no doubt that he will again be calling Liverpool fans ‘murderers’ next year on the 21st anniversary of Hillsborough. That’s why
we want him gone completely off the air.
Steven Cohen may try to point to a great accomplishment that he can conduct a Liverpool-based interview without lying about Hillsborough. We at the LFCNY will ask what accomplishment? We would point to his complete rejection by the club he claims to support, Chelsea. His own club
recognizes him for what he is.
And soccer in America is also recognizes him for the same. WSD had a sponsorship arrangement with the Seattle Wolves, a 4th division football team. When they heard his comments, they refused to go on his show and felt compelled to issue a statement condemning him, much as Chelsea had done. Alexander Caulfield, the Director of Public Relations & Marketing for the Wolves said, “Seattle Wolves Football Club does not support the misrepresentation of what happened on the tragic day of April 15th, 1989. In this vein, the Wolves do not support Steven Cohen’s remarks surrounding Hillsborough, and moreover the club cannot move forward with World Soccer Daily until a sincere retraction is issued from World Soccer Daily.” This, from a team a team that supported Steven Cohen; though the LFCNY would take issue with the notion that Steven Cohen could ever issue a “sincere retraction.”
Steven Cohen has been rejected by his own club, Chelsea FC, one of the biggest in the world; he has been rejected by a 4th division US team. He has been rejected by Heineken, by FourFourTwo, by Ruffneck Scarves and so many other companies and teams. Rejected by those who know the game. It’s time for Steven Cohen to be rejected off the air.
Conor Brennan,
VP LFCNY.
www.lfcny.org.
Co-ordinator of the LFCNY campaign against Steven Cohen.
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Do you even listen to what he says? Your misquotes are a disgusting peace of journalism. When you quote someone they actually have to say it. He never called them "scum" or "murderers". He advocates self-responsiblity. And believes everyone should take responsibility in the incident including those you just trambled into the stand despite the stupidity of that from those who did not properly prevent the issue from coming up whatsoever. Not saying that I personally agree or disagree, but I do belief that smearing someone and just creating lies about someone because you disagree with them is despicable.
And the fact that LFCNY wouldn't not even accept a sincere apology also says a great amount about the organzation.
Oct 27, 2008, World Soccer Daily discussing a recent pub event)
Co host: "All chelsea fans was it?"
Steven Cohen: "No, no, no, no loads of liverpool. I mean, I was trying to, I was s-singing to them, I was singing to the (singing) 'murderers'. They didn't even know what I was talking about!(laughs).
Nothing to say then Tim about Chelsea telling him to fuck off? Or are you now hung up on spelling?
Its 2:38 pm Eastern on Thursday July 23rd. The exact time and date when I officially became sick of LFCNY vs Steven Cohen.
Wish both sides would just shut the fuck up…
Should WSD go down because of the work of the Liverpool supporters, I hope each and every one of your lot sleep soundly knowing you deprived the United States footie fans of a major carrier of football talk.
Liverpool Fans (and also apparently Chelsea FC now) can sleep soundly knowing that we here in the United States will hopefully be deprived of a bigoted liar who not only refutes legal findings and reports but also attempts to 'educate' an unknowing public with untruths, lies and misinformation.
Someone more fitting will doubtless fill the vast void left by Mr Cohen and his show.
Sweet Dreams America.
The stuff Cohen's said about Hillsborough is awful and I disagree with it, but can we stop with this "holier than thou" bullshit? You'd think the man openly promoted genocide or something with the way LFCNY and RAWK have reacted, Jesus tittyfucking Christ.
What the hell is everyone's vendetta against this guy all about? He's not a professional journalist, and he never has been. He is not affiliated with any club or supporters group, and he never has been. He's just some fan shooting his mouth off on the radio.
If you think his Hillsborough comments were even in the top 10 most offensive things said on commercial radio that day, you really need to get out more. You don't like his show? Don't fucking listen to it. I don't go out of my way to try to deprive Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann of the ability to make a living, and they say bigoted, hateful shit every single day.
If you've done anything to hurt Steven Cohen and World Soccer Daily besides turning his show off and not buying his sponsors' products, you need to get a fucking life.
/end profanity-laced rant.
Well said Kevin
Ginge here's the audio of "him" calling Liverpool fans murderers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZGJ3xBd5
The sound bite refers to one of the many songs sung by football supporters. While the tone of this song leaves a bad taste in my mouth, I would remind everyone that many supporters (Liverpool's included) have similar distasteful lyrics. "Who's that lying on the tarmac…"
You've all lost the plot.
I am a proud member of LFCNY and proud of what we did. Cohen was and still is a disgusting person who used his platform on the waves to lie and hurt those who know the truth…I hope he never has the opportunity to work in the media again!
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