Off the Pitch

*Watch the Ted Lasso — Season 2 trailer above*

Warning: Season 1 spoilers ahead if you still refuse to believe in this show’s excellence and haven’t watched it.

Great news everyone: Three months from now (July 23), we’ll be back in the comforting world of AFC Richmond and its hilariously uplifting manager with the release of Ted Lasso — Season 2 on Apple TV+.

Sometimes I think about how little that vast majority of life and its hard-knock lessons pertain to David Beckham. Yes, he once gave Diego Simeone a love tap on the knee-pit, but that 23-year-old incident hardly caused Golden Balls to shrink from being fully alive for the rest of his days.