And Rebecca in a healthy relationship. I hope that they somehow surprise us.
Agreed that the show expected you to pick up a lot via implication but this was covered during the recent real world superleague convo.
American sports is organized in a way where there is a fixed, small amount of large professional sports teams in the highest tier and then basically no consumer interest in any tiers below that. Soccer is very different in that there is community interest entirely down the ladder of leagues where you might have a EPL superstar team that you root for but also your local team where you might go with 200 fellow fans to watch them play on a weekend. This organic, grassroots system is a rightfully beloved aspect of British soccer that distinguishes it from American style sports fandom.
The goals of the superleague were to explicitly move soccer into a more American style model which happens to be more profitable for owners but the pushback were from fans fearing that any such move would collapse the economic model that supports the British league system since it was implicitly subsidized by the top few superstar teams.
So the debate about a superleague is not only about where can people watch it and how much tickets cost, but about the entire structure of how fandom is organized and whether the beloved soccer of old could survive under a new system. That was what Rebecca’s speech was about but you had to know the context to fully follow it.
Loved tonight’s episode (S3E11, May 23)!
All the happy endings are coming together all at once in this bizarro Love Actually universe. Nearly time to cue “Love is all Around” by the Troggs and run the final credits as every English person ever (even the Mancunians) turns out at Heathrow to wave goodbye to Ted. This show is landing on autopilot.
I guess it all depends ends the way it’s supposed to end as telegraphed a year ago. Ted’s bomb is he goes back home after this one last game and Nate takes over.
I thought that Roy and Keely were already back together. Was Roy asking to be a couple again in Jamie’s room? Maybe we’ll get a wedding.
Also an interesting look between Isaac and Rebecca during the film.
In the background of one of the earlier episodes this season, we hear someone on television say “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is really ready, the teacher will disappear.”
…so is Jade really Nate’s girlfriend?
Something really funky going on there.
Sorry for not mentioning it earlier, but in last week’s episode when we learned that Nate was no longer with West Ham, I thought it odd that everyone assumed he’d been let go rather than leaving of his own accord. And that he never made it known that he chose to leave.
Rupert smeared him in the press by implying some indiscretion which I’m not sure was spelled out for the audience. But Nate quietly accepted the abuse just like Ted would. This show is about the meek inheriting the Earth…or at least West London.
And a stupid, minor nitpick; Ted was shown sleeping on the couch (which didn’t look long enough for him to stretch out), presumably having given his mother his own bed. But he had Henry visiting him for weeks over the summer, so presumably he had a room and a bed permanently set up for him. So why not either put Mom there, or sleep there himself?
Why couldn’t Henry have had the couch?
I assumed that for the weeks and weeks he was visiting, that Ted had given him a separate room. But perhaps I’m wrong.
I liked this episode, yes it’s corny, but that’s what we come to this show for, that and the football and there was a lot of football and football-related things in this ep.
At first I thought that they were superimposing footage of Pep Guardiola in the match, but in the end he actually speaks with Ted so they truly went ahead and got Pep to star in their show.
Of course that tobogan de piojos, aerodromo de mosquitos, cabeza de rodilla didn’t let Julian “Champion of the World” Alvarez play and so, of course, they didn’t score and lost to Richmond. It was to be expected…
I think you mean Sam.
Yes. Thank you.
Who were the 2 women who showed up at Rebecca’s door? No idea.
Rupert’s second wife and and his former assistant with whom he was having an affair.
OK. Thought that might be the assistant, but did not recognize the wife.
…so it was just me then? The culture critic at Vulture is the only person who seems to agree with me 
Its just the way the scenes in the latest episode played out. She disappeared every time he went to introduce her. I think Jade exists, because other characters have met and interacted with each her. But maybe the whole relationship might not have happened. Maybe it all goes back to when he fell over in the street.
But there isn’t really enough time IMHO to play out “it was all in his head” in the finale. So maybe I’m just misreading things. 
Of course Jade exists. It’s just a running gag that she disappears when he tries to introduce her.
Loved this episode. It made me LOL and cry.