Big spoilers for the season 3 finale of “Ted Lasso” to follow.From the beginning, “Ted Lasso” gave us a great blend of sports drama, an underdog narrative, and an absurd fish-out-of-water story of an American football coach teaching actual football, despite not even knowing what an off-side is.
This worked wonderfully, combining British and American sensibilities, and mining great comedy and drama out of the cultural clash between the two.Though the show was never really about football — instead about the self-betterment of the team and its coach — there were still great moments of sports bliss throughout.
We had excellent football plays like Richmond being promoted to the Premier League, Dani Rojas scoring a goal after a devastating mistake in season 2, Zava’s incredibly over-the-top plays, or Jamie Tartt’s extraordinary tiki-taka passes against Manchester City.Seasons 1 and 2 had a very clear and sensible goal: to avoid relegation and then to be…
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