Shaka Hislop has been given the nod to write a weekly MLS blog post for the Guardian. His first installment published last Friday. The MLS has been getting some attention on the Football Weekly podcast with the crew even going so far as to ring up Mike Cardillo, whose soccer dominated blog is That's On Point. Any MLS mention on Football Weekly usually elicits a wave of stupidity and pettiness in their blog comments.
So I took a peek into the comments on Hislop's first MLS post, expecting the worst. To my astonishment, the comments thread was a long remarkably well-informed and serious back and forth that touched on the MLS/North American franchise draft model vs. European youth development model, comparisons between the MLS & Mexican League and general discussion of where the MLS stands. There was a fantastic mix of contributers who are Brit ex-pats in the US, Canadians, Americans and I'm guessing a few American ex-pats in the UK. Several of them are among the best of the Football Weekly posters. There was a shocking level of civility and curiousity with people asking genuine questions, receiving informed answers and respectfully critiquing in kind. I'm not sure how much of this the internet can take....
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