Ted Lasso pisses off Chelsea fans with insensitive disdain for club hero in latest episode

Some Chelsea fans are furious at Ted Lasso’s latest episode after a banner commemorating the club legend Ray Wilkinshas been edited to include the name of AFC Richmond’s tough-talking assistant coach Roy Kent.

The Chelsea banner “They don’t make them look like Ray anymore” hangs permanently in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge East Stand. In the third season of the Apple TV Plus show, Ray was replaced with a reference to Roy Kent, a former Chelsea player on the show.

Created by fans for Ray Wilkins after his death and funded by donations, the banner can be seen regularly during televised matches at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium.

Ray Wilkins passed away suddenly in 2018 at the age of 61, after a brilliant career that spanned 25 years, playing for Chelsea, Milan and more. He later served as an assistant manager at the club during Chelsea’s 2009-10 Premier League season. Wilkins made 179 appearances for Chelsea between 1973 and 1979.

Some Chelsea fans are furious

Some Chelsea fans expressed their disbelief and anger at the lack of respect in the name change on the memorial banner. Fans posting on social media are upset about the lack of respect for one of their favorite characters, even if the show’s creators weren’t aware of the banner’s meaning.

A Chelsea FC fan with over 100,000 followers tweeted: “Chelsea and the owners may not have been aware of this and it could all have been an Apple TV and a film crew. It would be a shame if people at Chelsea saw this episode and didn’t say, “This needs to be changed immediately.”

On Ted Lasso’s latest episode titled “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea”, AFC Richmond play their first Premier League game. In a show that’s the most popular original Apple TV PlusRoy Kent, is a former Chelsea player known as a club legend.

Chelsea also promoted the episode with a promo video from head coach Graham Potter along with official promo photos of AFC Richmond facing Chelsea superstars Kai Havertz and Ruben Loftus-Cheek. Replacing Ray with Roy was easy, but Apple could have scored an own goal here.