Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
Should Major League Soccer adopt promotion and relegation? On Unfiltered Soccer, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard are joined by Adam Crafton, writer for The Athletic, to discuss the pros and cons of MLS adopting the format. What is promotion and relegation, and how does it work in Europe? What makes promotion and relegation exciting for fans, but a nightmare for owners? What would have to change in Major League Soccer for promotion and relegation to be adopted? Tim and Landon also dive into your AT&T Fan Connection questions about the format! New episodes of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim drop every Tuesday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. (https://www.unfilteredsoccer.com). Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3. Thank you to our additional sponsors: AT&T. Connecting Changes Everything. Visit https://att.com/guarantee to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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These teams are willing to spend really quickly, and then they just yo-yo. Not good enough for the Premier League, they're too good for the championship, and they get stuck in this kind of middle ground.
Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim, presented by Volkswagen. Volkswagen has long been a supporter of soccer in America and has proudly been a partner of U.S. Soccer for the past five years.
LD, we are back. I can't understate or overstate how excited I am for this moment of the week. Every time I get to see your face, it's amazing.
What have you been up to this week? Says nobody ever. Golfing. Oh, God, you golf so much. I know. I've got this league play match today. So you play. Don't laugh, dude. So you play. It's the only competition I have in my life anymore. You play individually against someone, then you have a teammate, and you as your teammate play against this other team.
So we're playing San Diego Country Club today. This is a big match here at our home course.
You know what? That's amazing. I'm not even going to ask how you play because all my friends say they play great. It doesn't matter. All I'm going to say is I think we should have an episode on how great your life is. I think we should just walk through.
You were just talking about how cold it is. I said to my wife this morning, I'm like, It's actually warm today. I think it was 58 degrees when I walked outside. I hate you.
Oh my god. It's the coldest it's the coldest it's ever been in New York. It's just horrific. Whatever. You don't have to live there bud. You choose.
All right guys. Reminder as always follow us on social media Unfiltered Soccer. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube. Follow on Apple Podcasts and Spotify if you like what we're doing or if you don't just leave a comment. We like it. We like reading the bad ones. Timmy loves the banter. You can also email us at feedback at unfilteredsoccer.com. What do we got today, Tim?
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