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It’s anyone guess what happens from here with Tartt, but the rest of the side was clearly invigorated by his departure. With the January transfer window ahead, there may actually be a reason for optimism. Hell, I might even write a real piece about it. Truth in Television: Gillette Soccer Saturday is an actual television show that airs on Sky Sports and features hosts Jeff Stelling and Chris Kamara. And, yes, it is called Soccer Saturday since, as Keeley explains to Ted, Brits love alliteration. There are a few references to A Wrinkle in Time; Ted gives Roy a copy of the book and the latter later reads it aloud to his niece Phoebe, Trent Crimm is revealed to be familiar with the book and its themes, and Sam is also seen reading a copy while he's on the exercise bike.

Real self-care is an internal solution: it’s about changing your internal reality—or your consciousness [boundary setting, self-compassion, and getting clear on values].” -Dr. Pooja LakshminIn researching this, I found a beautiful guest post by Jaime Green on Madeleine L’Engle’s blog I recommend you read, about how our flaws can be gifts: What’s A Wrinkle in Time Doing in Ted Lasso?

As a soccer coach and with a free trial to Apple TV+ I’ve been watching and enjoying Ted Lasso, about a bumbling (soccer-wise) but good-hearted (understatement) American football coach who is recruited to take the helm of the struggling EPL team AFC Richmond. I’ve been able, now four episodes in, to get past the incredulity of an EPL team being allowed to hire an un-credentialed coach for the highest (or at least most prominent) level of club soccer (motivations for said hiring notwithstanding) but I’m finding more inexplicable the team’s / show’s apparently unwavering commitment to its (potentially?) nonsensical Latin motto. Did Not Think This Through: It visibly occurs to Nate halfway through the team's calls to find and beat the living daylights out of whoever leaked the news of Ted's mental health that it was probably a bad idea messing with the Team Dad of two dozen athletic, excitable men.

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In "Beard After Hours", Coach Beard does a Trash Landing to escape a man trying to beat him up. While he manages to avoid serious injury, he's still in serious pain because he just fell several stories and struggles to move. AFC Richmond parallels with Crystal Palace FC, as both are London-based Premier League clubs with long histories but very little glory, and red-and-blue colour schemes. Ironically, Crystal Palace still exist in the show's verse, as they are Richmond's first opponents during Ted's tenure. Sam receives a machine-gunner kneeling and taking aim to protect him as he transitions to a new country, symbolizing thoughtfulness. Sam's polite refusal to take the toy, since as a Nigerian he doesn't have a great history with the U.S. Army, shows he has a strong moral code, foreshadowing his protest of the team's sponsor in Season 2 for its direct role in polluting his country.

Zig-Zagged with Nate Shelley. Nate was the meek, neurotic, bullied kitman when Ted met him. Ted recognized Nate as a potential genius in strategy, but just needed more support. Season 1 plays this straight, ending with Nate getting promoted to Assistant Coach, but gets deconstructed in Season 2, as Nate's development as a coach dovetails with a descent into self-hatred-induced Acquired Situational Narcissism, ending with Nate as lead coach for a rival team. Season 3 reconstructs this as Nate learns some humility in his relationships with Rupert, Jade, and his distant father, learning that success and kindness/love are not mutually exclusive and that he never needed to be impressive or aggressive to get what he needed. Unseen Pen Pal: In Season 2, Keeley encourages the unattached members of Richmond's team and management staff to join Bantr, a dating app based solely on anonymous text-based communication. While Rebecca initially scoffs at the idea and is having a fling with someone in real life, she develops a bond with user LDN152 note A nod to Joe Fox's screen name NY152 in You've Got Mail, who turns out to be Sam Obisanya, a star player and her employee who is nearly 30 years younger than her (but still above legal age). When the two decide to meet in person and realize the truth, Rebecca initially shuts it down due to their professional relationship, but the two find their chemistry too intense to ignore. She later breaks it off because she realizes she is not ready to get hurt again after her messy divorce. One of the first things Ted says to the team as a coach is a literary reference: “We’re gonna call this drill ‘ The Exorcist,’’cause it’s all about controlling possession.” The team is not amused, but this is a good introduction of Ted’s coaching style: funny, irreverent, but practical beneath it. Carol of the Bells" focuses on Ted and Rebecca spending Christmas together, Roy and Keeley having to host Phoebe after her mother needs to work an emergency surgery, and Higgins and his family throwing their annual Christmas party for all of Richmond's international players.

Richmond Wins Hearts But Not the Title

Artistic License – Sports: While it gets the Beautiful Game mostly right, there's a few things that are either done incorrectly or changed for the sake of the show's plot and drama. Season 1, episode 5, which ends with Ted realizing he needs to let his wife go and they agree to get a divorce. These apology moments are powerful and have lasting consequences. The characters of Roy and Keeley are brought closer specifically because of apologies. Each apology advances their understanding of one another and raises the stakes of their connection. Interestingly, the show draws a line between easy-but-insincere apologies and hard-but-meaningful apologies. The star player, Jamie Tartt, throws a meaningless apology Keeley’s way after he embarrasses her publicly – “people should be accountable,” she tells him – which frames the sincere apology Keeley offers Roy for doing the same thing to him.

Rebecca's clothes are always elegant, dressy, and somewhat conservative, reflecting her more reserved and formal personality. Early-Installment Weirdness: Early episodes imply that Higgins' sons don't have much respect for him. By Season 2, however, it's established that he has the most-settled personal life out of all the characters and that his sons adore him. This is the pivotal moment of the entire season. Because everything changes after the apology is given and accepted. It's tremendously moving and completely earned by what’s happened in the eight episodes that came before. Booked Full of Mooks: When Ghanian multibillionaire Edwin Akufo tries to convince Sam Obisanya to leave AFC Richmond and sign on with his team, he takes Sam to an art museum to have a chat. Midway through, Edwin reveals that he rented out the whole museum for the day and everyone else there (even a man Edwin claims is actually Banksy) is an actor.Researchers have found that while optimism is the sense that everything will be okay, people who are hopeful have the understanding that things may not be okay, but that they have agency to make things a little better for themselves or for others.” -Dr. Pooja Lakshmin In addition to its similarities to Gazprom, Cerithium Oil is a clear stand-in for Shell Oil, both being oil companies with seashell names note Cerithium is a genus of sea snail. that have massively polluted Nigeria .