Take It or Leave It: The 2026 World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl, multi-club ownership in MLS & more!
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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It's the glorious return of Take It or Leave It, the show where we rate your hot takes! Today, we're discussing whether the Rose Bowl should host the 2026 World Cup Final, whether multi-club ownership is bad for MLS (and New York specifically), and whether meat pies are better than American stadium food....
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| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest edition of Take It or Leave It. |
| 0:57.6 | The rules are simple listener. |
| 0:59.5 | You send us your soccer hot takes and we decide whether we're going to take them or leave them. |
| 1:05.5 | Today we've got some spicy opinions on the location of the 2026 World Cup final multi-club ownership in Major League Soccer and meat pies at games. |
| 1:15.5 | Graham Rutherland's listening. |
| 1:16.7 | My name's Ryan Bailey joining me. |
| 1:18.8 | In addition to Graham Rutherland, it's Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:20.4 | Hello, Taylor. |
| 1:21.1 | Hello, my friend. |
| 1:22.3 | I am excited, interested for this episode because I have answers for all of these, but I think I am most open to being swayed about every single one of them that I've ever been for a take-or-to-le-leave-it episode. Okay, so you're on the fence today. Pretty much. Pretty much. I'm starting it out lukewarm. Did you just invent a word excited, interested, by the way? Yeah, it's a hyphen, I think. It's a hyphen it. It is now. Graham Rutherland, how are you? I'm good, Brian Bailey. |
| 1:27.8 | I am excited, interested about the footy scrant take that we will be addressing later on. That has one with my name written all over it. Very nice. It does indeed. It's just for you, G. And I'm excited, interested to tell the listener about Patreon. on Patreon.com slash total soccer show is where you'll find our bonus content. |
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| 2:10.0 | On the Patreon, we have bonus content, including videos, including bonus podcasts. |
| 2:13.9 | And of course, access to our Discord where all the cool kids are hanging out. Taylor, |
| 2:19.1 | if you look at the Cool Kids Index in Discord, it's pretty high. I think you'll find. |
| 2:23.2 | And I'm somewhere in the middle, somewhere to the bottom. |
| 2:25.8 | Well, Jeff Lowry is top. Of course. Of course. |
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