The owner of the Chelsea Football Club was forced to apologize after the real-life banner of a late player was altered for the show “Ted Lasso.”
, a banner hanging over the stands of Chelsea Football Club reads “They don’t make them like Roy anymore,” in loving homage to the Apple TV+ series’ character Roy Kent, who once played for the team.
The only problem with that, as Chelsea fans made clear on social media after the episode’s airing, was that the banner is apparently a slightly modified version of a real-life one that hangs in the real-life stadium, memorializing a real-life player, Ray Wilkins, who died in 2018. The “Ray” banner is fan-funded, according to, which noted on Thursday that many supporters “have seen this edit to be disrespectful.
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