After three years, Ted Lasso is back on the pitch helming a new team in a stellar new season.

At the half-time show for this year’s World Cup an audience in the billions watched Ted Lasso, a fake American football coach played by the actor Jason Sudeikis, give the musician Justin Bieber a pep ...

Instead, he’s working in his local supermarket, warmly greeting his customers by name, providing moral guidance to younger colleagues and generally radiating his trademark howdily-doodily energy.