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Ted Lasso (2020)/S3E8 · We'll Never Have Paris/Beard's book on Dutch football: Brilliant Orange

Ted Lasso · Season 3, Episode 8, "We'll Never Have Paris"

Beard's book on Dutch football: Brilliant Orange

Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) · Office

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What it tells you

An orange book sits unopened on Beard's desk, and M.B. Davis identified it as David Winner's history of Dutch football. Two episodes earlier Ted got his Total Football idea in Amsterdam.

Sources: What's Beard Reading? (3.08), M.B. Davis on Medium

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The book

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer

David Winner · 2000 · nonfiction

Winner's 2000 book argues Dutch football grew out of the same obsession with space that shaped Dutch painting and architecture. Total Football came from Ajax in the late 1960s. Beard is researching the tactic Ted invented, which is the most Beard thing possible.

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