Faith: like Crystal Palace the Ted Lasso Dream | Dedicated |

Ted Lasso is the best football show ever done. Everyone is perfect and comes together and comes together, including Teds Panglossian Optimism, the Nietzscher-Nihilism of Coach Beard, Jamie Tarth, from Twat to Teammann, Roy Kent, only Roy Keane and obviously Dani Rojas' soccer-I-life optimism.It is the kind of show you return to when you feel depressed when the burden of life becomes too much. And it is in the heart

Believe

: The idea that you can overcome any obstacle together. And now Ted Lassos has a dizzying optimism from the role of Real As Crystal Palace – the club that inspired AFC Richmond – defeated Manchester City to win his first FA Cup title and her first large trophy since his foundation in 1905.

The man in Man City, which is in infinite oil money, whose budget is £ 528 million than Crystal Palace.In a season in which football felt more like finances and the gates in spreadsheet became second, Palace recalled the world that faith sometimes beats billions.Now as an observer of the no-premier League, the name Crystal Palace may sound ridiculous, like a drugstore where they sell crystal meth (as detected in Breaking Bad).

South London against the system

This was not just a cup final. It was

England's game

against

Football Inc.

.Crystal Palace is what football used to be – local, loyal, loud. A stadium that creaks like her grandfather's knees. Fans who still protect personally instead of tweeting threats. An association of fans who once literally saved him from liquidation. A place where a mascot named Kayla is a white -head lake eagle is not a risk capital company.City? You are the Apple Store of Football. Slim, perfect, bloodless. An association with more global brand managers than local fans. A team that has turned trophies in KPIs. And yet the machine collapsed. Not out of a lack of code – but out of a lack of soul.Palace not only beat the city. They reminded us that the game is still one of the districts, not the billionaires.

Dean Henderson and the Gospel of the Chaos

Dean Henderson may have led 10 life in one game. First, a borderline handball outside the plate that somehow didn't make him send. Then, a punishment, saves – his fourth attempts – followed by a reflex stop on Erling Haaland's rebound. It was like a guy who used to be Manchester United's third keeper, suddenly became Gandalf in the goal line:

“You shall not pass!”

Palace fans sang “England No. No. 1 “And without exception it did not sound like drunk optimism. Henderson's heroic deeds were not just clutch – they were mythical.

Lassoism lives

“It is the hope that brings you”, Mother Football fans like the Scripture -a sentence that was passed on by grandfathers losing England due to black and white penalties. But

Ted Lasso

took this defeatist -mantra, chewed it and spat out something completely different:

Believe.

Crystal Palace believed.You were here before – in 1990 when you came within a whisker of Manchester United. When they led in the final in 2016 and then danced in the football swing thanks to Alan Pordew's unfortunate template. Both times, dreams dissolved like buried beer in Selhurst Park.But this time it was different. Oliver Glaser's palace not only played like outsiders. They played like spiritual insurgents and put the pressure on as if they had rationed the possession under war savings and then released attacks with Blitzkrieg precision.When Guardiola was considered, Palace kept the border. When City fell over and was over and pirouetted, Palace waited – not passive, but patient. And when Eberechi Eze brought this ball into the net, it wasn't just a goal. It was an exorcism. Of the missed finals, from a financial near death, of 119 years in which he was instructed to stay on your trail.It was a cry in the void: we are not just here to survive. We are here to win.

The last romantic of football

Forget NFTS and crypto sponsors. Forget Var drama and brand activation zones. What happened to Wembley was something that has long since not happened in football: a story she felt.Crystal Palace has not only raised a trophy. She raised a city. She raised memories. She raised the sport self-drawn, kicked and screamed, back from the abyss of soulless super clubs and oil-coated juggernach into the arms of mankind.Ted Lasso once said: “To do the right thing is never the wrong thing.”And 90 minutes – plus time – the right thing was Crystal Palace.They dared to dream. They dared to believe. In doing so, she reminded the world that football is at best not to rule. It's about despite.Believe.