{"id":43889,"date":"2022-02-10T18:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/?p=43889"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:21:06","slug":"ted-lasso-soccer-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/sports-turf\/ted-lasso-soccer-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Ted Lasso, Keep Off the Soccer Grass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With \u201cTed Lasso\u201d getting a fourth season, it&#8217;s worth noting that getting the soccer scenes right so far would have been a miss without some creative thinking.  <\/p>    <p><strong>Hint:<\/strong> Something you&#8217;re more likely to see on the beach enabled the crew to roll the cameras without rolling over (and harming) the grass. <\/p>    <p>But let&#8217;s not give away the whole story&#8230;<\/p>    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Pitch for \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>    <p>Apple TV+\u2019s \u201cTed Lasso\u201d is an All-American product created by American screenwriter Bill Lawrence with American actor\/comedian Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso in the title role. Lasso is an ever-upbeat American college football coach hired to coach an English soccer team.<\/p>    <p>At the same time, it\u2019s an All-British show, filmed in the U.K. about a sport that helps to define what it means to be British. In the show, the American Lasso is being asked to coach the fictional AFC Richmond in a sport about which he knows precious little.<\/p>    <p>A couple of years ago when Lawrence pitched the \u201cTed Lasso\u201d idea to director Zach Braff, Braff had little experience in shooting sports action of any kind. Braff\u2019s underlying, if unspoken, supposition during the conversation between the two was based on being able to get all his cameras, equipment and crew onto the pitch for game and practice action.<\/p>    <p>About that. For the AFC Richmond training facility used in the show, Lawrence struck a deal to use the SkyEx Community Stadium\/Beaconsfield Road in Hayes, the home of Southern League Premier Division South team Hayes and Yeading, located north-northeast of London\u2019s Heathrow Airport.<\/p>    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lights, Cameras, but Not on the Pitch<\/strong><\/h2>    <p>It was only in prepping to shoot the first on-field scenes for the second show in the series that Braff discovered just how seriously the British take the health of a soccer pitch. A discussion with the show\u2019s cinematographer brought that up, briefly flummoxing Braff.<\/p>    <p>In a conversation with <em>Vanity Fair,<\/em> Braff said the conversation about how the shooting would go took an abrupt turn when the cinematographer told him, \u201cOh, and by the way, they\u2019re so precious about the pitch and its perfection that we\u2019re not allowed to bring any equipment onto this actual field.\u201d<\/p>    <p>Braff wasn\u2019t going to be allowed to get any heavy equipment on the Beaconsfield pitch. Cameras, monitors, tripods, lenses and lens cases are essential in any kind of filming for the screen, and those items can have some serious heft.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>For the Beaconsfield pitch minders, having actors playing soccer on the stadium\u2019s grass was an acceptable part of the process. But having all that equipment dig into the pitch was something else again.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>There is not much more precious to the grounds crew working at Beaconsfield Road than the grass, the pitch that Braff described as \u201cpristine and perfect.\u201d There are gardeners around the world that have no trouble understanding that feeling. And no amount of negotiation could shake the no-heavy equipment-on-the-field edict.<\/p>    <p>So, it was up to Braff to find a different way to make it work. He did, with a little concession from the Beaconsfield Road crew.&nbsp;<\/p>    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>From the Beach to the Soccer Field<\/strong><\/h2>    <p>He told <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> that he got together with the key grip (the head of the team that positions equipment on a TV or film shoot) and the cinematographer (who directs the show\u2019s photography and camera work) to find a way.<\/p>    <p>\u201cWe put this rig that had a remote head on sort of a rickshaw that was on giant rubber inflated tires that weren\u2019t heavy,\u201d Braff told <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s a kind of thing they use on beaches, on sets, because you can roll it on sand. So, we put a remote head on that and it was light enough that they allowed us to put it on the pitch because it didn\u2019t have an operator on it.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>\u201cThe operator would operate from the sidelines and then the key grip put on cleats (in the UK soccer cleats are known as football boots, by the way) and he would sprint with it. And that was our makeshift dolly that allowed us to get some really cool shots. That was the rig that they ended up using for the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Staying True to the Game and Even the Grass<\/strong><\/h2>    <p>As fans of the show will attest, the solution was pitch-perfect. Sudeikis\u2019s character might be a fish out of water, albeit with an irrepressible can-do attitude, but the soccer portrayed on screen was spot-on.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>The show\u2019s game sequences are shot not at Beaconsfield Road but at Selhurst Park, the home of Crystal Palace F.C. of the Premier League, due south of London. In the show, it\u2019s called Nelson Road Stadium. For the purists, the Selhurst Park\/Nelson Road pitch is Desso GrassMaster, used by the bulk of stadiums hosting high-level British football squads.<\/p>    <p>The team Lasso coaches is nicknamed the Greyhounds, so it comes as no surprise that they play their games on a pitch that is known to fans as \u201cthe dog track,\u201d a nod to Richmond area\u2019s long history with the sport of greyhound racing. The area around the pitch is known as \u201cthe dog pound.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Life\u2019s a Pitch<\/strong><\/h2>    <p>Away from the practice facility, much of the show\u2019s filming is done in Richmond, including the street on which Lasso lives and his favorite pub, known in the show as the Crown and Anchor. The pub used for the filming is the Princes Head, which, by the way, is a 6-minute walk from Beaconsfield Road and has become something of a tourist attraction for fans of the show.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>Lawrence\u2019s vision for \u201cTed Lasso\u201d came into focus in that pitch meeting with Braff, whose crew found a workaround to not being able to get any of their heavy equipment on the pitch.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>And \u201cTed Lasso\u201d became a hit. On both sides of the Atlantic.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>We can&#8217;t wait for the fourth season now, but don&#8217;t hold your breath. New episodes might not air until sometime in 2026 &#8212; maybe just ahead of the World Cup Soccer matches? Now that would be pitch-perfect timing.<\/p>    <p><strong>See Related: <\/strong><br>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/sports-turf\/us-world-cup-cities-natural-grass\/\">U.S. Stadiums Switch to Grass for FIFA World Cup 2026<\/a><\/p>    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And When You Need Someone To Care for Your Grass&#8230;<\/h2>    <p>LawnStarter crews cut grass, trim around fences and flower beds, and blow debris off your sidewalk, driveway, and patio. Soccer fields are lovingly cared for. Let our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/lawn-care\">local lawn care pros<\/a> lovingly care for your lawn. It&#8217;s easy to sign up. Lawn care starting at $19. That&#8217;s hard to beat. <\/p>    <p><strong>Added Bonus:<\/strong> As a LawnStarter mowing customer you also can get local help for about 30 outdoor services, including bush trimming and leaf removal. <\/p>    <p>Main Photo Credit: Downloaded from Apple+ Ted Lasso Media Page<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With \u201cTed Lasso\u201d getting a fourth season, it&#8217;s worth noting that getting the soccer scenes right so far would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":43899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-turf"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rsz_1tedlasso.jpg?wsr","author_info":{"display_name":"John 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