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00:00 Welcome to the latest episode of Everything But The Prem.

00:10 At a lot of league football was paused this week because of the international break.

00:14 So today we're bringing you something a little bit different.

00:17 We know you love the analysis and the opinions of the best of National Awards football writers,

00:21 but what about the men and the women that make it all happen every week?

00:25 Recently, Sheffield star Drew Crane sat down with Chris to discuss how he came to be at Wednesday,

00:31 his coaching philosophy, working with some of England's brightest and best young talents alongside Gareth Southgate,

00:37 and the part he played in helping Ted Lasso become one of the biggest TV success stories of the past decade.

00:45 I wanted to ask you a little bit about Ted Lasso.

00:47 You would.

00:48 I had to, I had to. As a genuine fan of the show.

00:52 Yeah.

00:53 But just with Ted Lasso, how did that all come about?

00:56 Bizarre.

00:58 And everyone asked me.

01:00 I actually did an interview yesterday from home.

01:03 No, on Monday, from the New York Times.

01:07 I mean, bizarre.

01:08 It's a bit of a step down to me, unfortunately.

01:11 Very cool. Sheffield star and New York Times.

01:14 Yeah, we're obviously talking about the same brand.

01:16 Yeah, yeah.

01:19 So I got a call in 2020.

01:23 I just left Ardau Den Haag because of lockdown.

01:27 So I was out in Holland, got home.

01:30 Obviously lockdown happened.

01:31 And then I got a phone call from Rob Wadsworth, who is an agent.

01:37 He's in digital sports marketing.

01:41 Someone I've dealt with over the years.

01:43 And he just said, I've had a script land on my desk.

01:51 It's about an American football coach taking over a Premier League team.

01:57 Straight away I said, well, that won't work, will it?

02:00 That just won't work.

02:01 And he said, they've asked me to get someone to coach the players or the extras.

02:08 You can't call them extras now.

02:09 They're support actors, SAs.

02:11 Yeah, love. Yeah.

02:13 Anyway, so I said, well, I'm not doing anything.

02:18 At that point, I wasn't working with England or Spurs.

02:22 So I went along and basically what they wanted was a bit of realism to sort of the practices that were going on,

02:32 either that was in the scripts or in the background.

02:35 And I just said, you know, we just want it to look as if this would happen at a Premier League team.

02:41 So I was like a coaching advisor, really.

02:44 And I'd go in maybe twice a week whenever they needed me and they were filming those scenes.

02:51 And then what happened was I did a game on Sky as a pundit.

02:59 Can't even remember what game, maybe Charlton game or Leicester.

03:02 I really don't know.

03:04 And one of the production team saw me and they said, that's the guy who comes in and like coaches the players.

03:12 So yeah, he's pretty good.

03:15 So whoever that was, thank you.

03:17 Because then they said, oh, we've got a space.

03:19 We've got a commentator.

03:21 We need a co-commentator/pundit.

03:24 Would you want to do it?

03:26 And I said, well, if you're going to pay me, yeah.

03:30 And of course I said, yeah, we'll do it.

03:34 And so they hooked me up with Arlo, who is a professional commentator.

03:38 He doesn't live golf now, but he was doing, I think, NBC football, Premier League coverage in America.

03:45 And I became an actor.

03:49 Scripts, trailer, believe it or not, bizarre.

03:53 So I'll tell you a quick story.

03:55 When I was a coaching advisor, they would just put me to one side and we'd eat last.

04:02 We get, you know, everything we got dealt with last.

04:05 The next day when I came in as co-commentator, they took my suits.

04:11 They took, they gave me my food.

04:14 It was like sort of there and there.

04:17 Did you have a lie there?

04:18 Like the things that had to be in your trailer when you got there at work?

04:21 No, it wasn't that bad.

04:24 But I mean, it was great experience.

04:27 And basically we had to learn our lines for season one, which is quite tough.

04:36 But then for season two and three, they would put like auto cues out of the way.

04:43 So we wouldn't have to sort of rehearse.

04:45 We'd just get there.

04:46 You sort of rehearse the lines because they don't want to film you staring at the auto cues.

04:52 So you sort of look away.

04:54 And they were so helpful to me and Arla.

04:58 And obviously it blew up.

04:59 I mean, season one, if you look at season one and the balls and the kit,

05:06 it's not like how it was in season two and three,

05:08 because I think they weren't sure if it was going to be a success.

05:12 For me, it was all about timing because it was lockdown.

05:16 So people were at home and they wanted to feel good.

05:20 And the show is a feel good show about relationships.

05:23 Football was just the vehicle for it.

05:26 It's not really about football.

05:27 No, no, but everyone thinks it is.

05:30 But it was just there.

05:31 But actually it was about love, relationships, bouncing back, resilience,

05:37 being away from home, understanding other people, other cultures.

05:44 There was a love triangle in it.

05:46 I mean, it was just bizarre.

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On this week's Everything But the Premier League | Owl's Chris Powell talks about his Ted Lasso experience

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