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Long suffering fans of Canadian soccer writhe and gnash teeth over how to force the CSA to implement this vision across the provincial associations. But why wait for the relatively financially-hobbled CSA to make it so?

If we’re interested in drawing these fans to the Canadian game, we shouldn’t attempt to shut them out by patronizing them.

It need not be a budget breaker, and I think there would be enough interest for a modest circulation and pro-bono submission.

So there it is. The old Canadian soccer victim act is dead. Long live Canadian soccer. Welcome to Media Takedown.

This doesn’t mean the end of soccer writing as a career for the aspiring sports journalist.

It’s odd how soccer people, even the most intelligent ones, seem to put so much importance on a soccer shirt.

If reformers want real accountability from the CSA, new media needs big media to go ahead and take it.

I’ve written a lot on this blog about the woeful state of most newspaper soccer coverage, particularly in North America, but I’ve generally treated it as a fact of life like the rising of the sun and the running of the deer.

MLS bloggers can still pick up the phone, we can still ask questions, follow good journalistic guidelines. And we can take risks, build networks, go to the library, read through archives.

Niggling issues aside, it’s hard to see what more MLS could do to court independent soccer writers.