http://soccernista.com/2006/10/16/foot-in-mouth/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:10:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://soccernista.com/2006/10/16/foot-in-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-285 soccernista.com » Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:55:50 +0000 http://soccernista.com/2006/10/16/foot-in-mouth/#comment-285 [...] Both incidents are as sore a subject in Merseyside as can be found, and Cohen’s foray into either showed a pretty serious disregard for football-fan etiquette (and makes Jon Stewart’s Hillsborough misstep look like good, clean fun). Within 24 hours, a Liverpool fan-site brought the story to the Kop and not too much later an online petition asking for Cohen’s removal cropped up. Days later, Cohen reportedly mentioned on his radio show that he had received email death-threats over the matter, and was planning to speak to the LAPD about the situation. To our knowledge, Cohen has stuck by his “I’m entitled to my opinion” defense and refused to apologize. [...] [...] Both incidents are as sore a subject in Merseyside as can be found, and Cohen’s foray into either showed a pretty serious disregard for football-fan etiquette (and makes Jon Stewart’s Hillsborough misstep look like good, clean fun). Within 24 hours, a Liverpool fan-site brought the story to the Kop and not too much later an online petition asking for Cohen’s removal cropped up. Days later, Cohen reportedly mentioned on his radio show that he had received email death-threats over the matter, and was planning to speak to the LAPD about the situation. To our knowledge, Cohen has stuck by his “I’m entitled to my opinion” defense and refused to apologize. [...]

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