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Adam Crafton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
212 total appearances

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Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

legislative bomb to stop this from happening and that was one of the reasons why it didn't progress so as a result of that yes there are plenty of owners i suspect who would like this um to change but i don't see it as being realistic as a policy change anytime soon you know adam to that point it's interesting so um full disclosure i have a very very very very small um

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

We're not going to subsidize that, right? So could I ask you, Landon, as an owner, however small that stake may be, how would you feel if the promotion relegation was all of a sudden not a possibility?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

We're not going to subsidize that, right? So could I ask you, Landon, as an owner, however small that stake may be, how would you feel if the promotion relegation was all of a sudden not a possibility?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

We're not going to subsidize that, right? So could I ask you, Landon, as an owner, however small that stake may be, how would you feel if the promotion relegation was all of a sudden not a possibility?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

I mean, there's players at the moment at Ipswich that were there in League One, right?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

I mean, there's players at the moment at Ipswich that were there in League One, right?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

I mean, there's players at the moment at Ipswich that were there in League One, right?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

A lot of players. Bournemouth, you know, when they went up with Eddie Howe, it was like League Two to the Premier League, some of these players. So, yeah, I've never considered it really, yeah, from a player's perspective in terms of it possibly being their only way to get there as well.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

A lot of players. Bournemouth, you know, when they went up with Eddie Howe, it was like League Two to the Premier League, some of these players. So, yeah, I've never considered it really, yeah, from a player's perspective in terms of it possibly being their only way to get there as well.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

A lot of players. Bournemouth, you know, when they went up with Eddie Howe, it was like League Two to the Premier League, some of these players. So, yeah, I've never considered it really, yeah, from a player's perspective in terms of it possibly being their only way to get there as well.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

No, I think the points you make are valid. I think if I was looking at soccer in the United States and I was looking at the MLS, there's kind of two ways you look at it. One is... you have to adapt to what the audience here is about and what the audience here is about as, as Tim says is we don't support second division teams.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

No, I think the points you make are valid. I think if I was looking at soccer in the United States and I was looking at the MLS, there's kind of two ways you look at it. One is... you have to adapt to what the audience here is about and what the audience here is about as, as Tim says is we don't support second division teams.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

No, I think the points you make are valid. I think if I was looking at soccer in the United States and I was looking at the MLS, there's kind of two ways you look at it. One is... you have to adapt to what the audience here is about and what the audience here is about as, as Tim says is we don't support second division teams.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

And my really simple sociological take on that is just Americans love watching the best.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

And my really simple sociological take on that is just Americans love watching the best.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

And my really simple sociological take on that is just Americans love watching the best.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

Yeah, and I think it's why the Premier League and Champions League is really popular here. A bit in the way that you guys call baseball the World Series, right? Because you expect the sport you watch to be the best, right? So that's why people are watching Champions League.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

Yeah, and I think it's why the Premier League and Champions League is really popular here. A bit in the way that you guys call baseball the World Series, right? Because you expect the sport you watch to be the best, right? So that's why people are watching Champions League.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

Yeah, and I think it's why the Premier League and Champions League is really popular here. A bit in the way that you guys call baseball the World Series, right? Because you expect the sport you watch to be the best, right? So that's why people are watching Champions League.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Promotion and Relegation with Adam Crafton

um now the flip way that soccer could look at it and is set is to basically still say you guys might push back on this a little bit but they could say we're still a challenger sport to you know nfl to college football to baseball to basketball we can argue about that when we look at participation figures and um and i suspect but they could say well actually because we're challenging