Episodes 01

“Goodbye Earl”

The episode starts midseason, as Richmond has drawn their last seven games. Dani prepares to kick a game winning penalty, but he accidentally kills Richmond’s greyhound mascot Earl; his resulting guilt cripples his ability to play. To help Dani recover from his “yips”, Richmond hires sports psychologist Sharon Fieldstone, whose stern and disciplined attitude clashes with Ted. After meeting with Sharon, Dani regains his enthusiasm for football and converts a corner kick goal in practice. As a result, more players begin to request sessions with Sharon. Meanwhile, a newly retired Roy is coaching an Under 9 Girls Football team and dating Keeley. Jamie is shown to be a contestant on Lust Conquers All,a Love Island-style reality show.

Episodes 02

“Lavender”

Jamie is voted out of Lust Conquers All, leading him to unsuccessfully attempt a return to Manchester City. Higgins hires Sharon for the rest of the season. Jamie approaches Ted to rejoin Richmond and reveals that he left Manchester City to anger his overbearing father. Ted politely declines his request to rejoin. When a picture of their conversation goes viral, Sam believes Jamie, who repeatedly bullied him, is returning and angrily storms off during practice. Ted assures Sam that he said no. After the girls’ team Roy coaches lose their championship, Keeley convinces Roy to try out a pundit job at Sky Sports. Despite his heavy cursing drawing the disapproval of his other pundits, Roy’s commentary is positively received by the public and the network asks him to return. Wanting to give Jamie a second chance, Ted reconsiders adding him to the team and polls the Diamond Dogs on their opinions. Higgins votes for the addition, while Beard and Nate vote against it. Roy admits to Keeley that he enjoyed being on the show. Jamie rejoins Richmond, to the players’ confusion.

Episodes 03

“Do the Right-est Thing”

The team does not take kindly to Jamie’s return, despite his attempts to apologize for his past behavior. On Keeley’s advice, Jamie visits Sharon. Sassy’s daughter (and Rebecca’s goddaughter) Nora comes to visit, and spends a day with Rebecca at work. Sam participates in a photoshoot for Dubai Air, the team’s sponsor, but later learns from his father that Dubai Air is owned by an oil company polluting his home country of Nigeria. He withdraws from the ad campaign, prompting pressure on Rebecca from Dubai Air to fire Sam, but she holds firm at Nora’s urging. During Richmond’s next game, Sam and fellow Nigerian players Isaac and Winchester cover their uniforms’ Dubai Air logos with tape in protest; Jamie leads the rest of the team to follow suit. Ted lets Sam speak about Dubai Air’s malfeasance and the Nigerian government’s corruption during the postgame press conference. Jamie toasts Sam for his courage, and the two reconcile.

Episodes 04

“Carol of the Bells”

During Christmas, Ted unsuccessfully tries to spend time over the phone with Henry and Michelle, and becomes dejected and starts drinking afterwards. Rebecca, suspecting Ted would feel alone in his first post-divorce Christmas, brings him along to give gifts to underprivileged children across town. Roy and Keeley learn Pheobe’s classmate is bullying her for bad breath; they trace the problem to the antihistamine she takes for a cat allergy, and take Phoebe to make amends with her bully using handwritten notes. Higgins and his family host a Christmas party for foreign players who are unable to visit their families at home. Ted and Rebecca join the party, performing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) with a street band they gave money to earlier on the road outside the Higgins’ house.

Episodes 05

“Rainbow”

Nate timidly tries and fails to book a window seat at his parents’ favorite restaurant for their anniversary. After Rebecca and Keeley teach Nate to be more assertive and confident, he successfully obtains the window reservation. Rebecca becomes interested in her new match on Bantr, an anonymous dating app co-owned by Keeley and sponsoring Richmond. Richmond continues to struggle, in part due to team captain Isaac’s anxiety hampering his leadership. Roy helps him by taking he and Ted to a field near his childhood home and having Isaac play a pickup match with neighborhood footballers, reminding him to have fun while playing. While commentating on his Soccer Saturday show, Roy watches a newly enthusiastic Isaac on the pitch and realizes he misses being involved with the game. He abruptly leaves the broadcast and makes his way to Richmond’s stadium, where he joins Ted’s coaching staff, to the applause of the Richmond supporters and Nate’s chagrin.

Episodes 06

“The Signal”

Rebecca is visited by her mother, who recently left her father; Rebecca tells Ted that her parents repeatedly separate and reconcile every few years. Beard and Jane get back together; Higgins is advised by Ted and Roy not to voice his apprehensions. Richmond enjoys newfound success with Roy on the coaching staff. Jamie is upset that Roy refuses to give him coaching advice; Roy eventually relents and tells Jamie he needs to occasionally play more aggressively, telling him the coaches will provide him a signal for when to do so. While in a close game against Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter-final of the FA Cup, all four coaches give Jamie the signal – raising their middle finger at him – leading to him scoring a goal. Ted suddenly has a panic attack and leaves the pitch; with Richmond in disarray, Spurs score. Without Ted, Nate steps in and calls a triple substitution that leads to a game-winning score for Richmond. Sharon finds Ted in her office asking for help.

Episodes 07

“Headspace”

Ted’s first two sessions with Sharon prove fruitless: he leaves the first almost immediately, and storms out of the second after expressing his skepticism and contempt towards psychotherapy after couples therapy failed to save his marriage. During the third visit, however, Ted apologizes for his outburst and decides to commit to the therapy process. Roy unwittingly begins spending every moment he can with Keeley, to the point where she feels smothered; the two fight after Roy learns that Keeley has been complaining about his overbearing behavior to Rebecca and others. Thanks to Jamie, Roy later comes to understand that Keeley needs space, and makes amends by running her a candlelit rose bath to enjoy alone in their home. Nate sees himself going viral on Twitter for the triple-substitution that resulted in Richmond’s recent win, but his insecurity worsens when his stern father advises humility instead of praising his achievement. As a result, Nate begins behaving cruelly to others in the locker room – first to Colin, a young Welsh player who used to bully him, and later to Will, the new kit man.

Episodes 08

“Man City”

Sharon suffers a concussion after being hit by a car while biking; Ted brings her home from the hospital. Rebecca and Sam anonymously arrange a dinner date, and find out upon arriving at the restaurant that they are each other’s Bantr matches. Rebecca is initially apprehensive, but Sam convinces her to have dinner with him platonically, which they both enjoy. The two kiss when they return to Rebecca’s house, but agree not to escalate the relationship further. Roy is called in to Phoebe’s school and realizes that his swearing is having an effect on her. Richmond plays at Wembley Stadium for the first time against Manchester City, but suffers a harsh loss. After the game, Jamie is bullied over the loss by his abusive father James in the locker room in front of his teammates and coaches. Jamie finally retaliates and strikes his father, whom Beard escorts out; Roy embraces Jamie, who breaks down crying in his arms. The scene shakes Ted into calling Sharon and confessing that his father died by suicide when Ted was 16. Rebecca and Sam ultimately spend the night together.

Episodes 09

“Beard After Hours”

The night of Richmond’s loss against Manchester City, a dispirited Beard visits a pub and is joined by avid Richmond supporters Baz, Jeremy and Paul. The four later sneak into a speakeasy, but Beard is thrown out after tearing his pants. He accompanies Mary, a woman he met at the club, back to her apartment, but is soon forced to flee from Mary’s hulking boyfriend Darren. Beard is soon cornered and beaten in the street by James Tartt and his friends, but Darren saves him, having followed him to return Beard’s wallet and phone. Beard is horrified to find a string of angry texts from Jane. Baz, Jeremy and Paul take him home in a limo they bought while gambling at the speakeasy, and Beard thanks them by showing them a secret entrance to Richmond’s home stadium. Beard is unable to enter his home after his key breaks, and stumbles into a secret nightclub beneath a church where he and Jane enjoy a night of dancing. The next morning, a sleep-deprived Beard returns to work as usual with his fellow coaches.

Episodes 10

“No Weddings and a Funeral”

Rebecca and Sam continue their relationship in secret for several weeks. One morning, Rebecca’s mother informs her that her father has died. The entire Richmond team attends the funeral, but Ted has a panic attack and calls Sharon for a therapy session. Rupert and Bex come to the funeral uninvited with their newborn daughter, infuriating Rebecca. Keeley and Sassy deduce that Rebecca is secretly in a relationship, and Keeley correctly guesses it is with Sam. Rebecca tells her mother she does not want to eulogize her father, as she had watched him cheat on her mother when she was a child, but her mother reveals that she knew and loved him despite his imperfections. At the same time, Ted describes his father’s death by suicide to Sharon for the first time, and arrives late for the funeral. Instead of giving a traditional eulogy, Rebecca leads the mourners in singing “Never Gonna Give You Up,” a song that her parents continued to like and find meaningful. After the service, Jamie admits to Keeley that he loves her. Rupert tells Rebecca he will give her the remaining shares of Richmond and briefly converses with Nate. Rebecca ends her relationship with Sam, fearing heartbreak, but grows closer to her mother.

Episodes 11

“Midnight Train to Royston”

Sam scores the first hat-trick of his career. Ghanaian billionaire Edwin Akufo visits Richmond and informs Rebecca that he wants to buy Sam as a player. Akufo elaborates to Sam that he wants to buy Raja Casablanca and sign an ensemble of Africa’s most talented players. Sam is given three days to consider the offer, though Rebecca pleads with him not to go. Nate continues to feel the frustration of receiving little credit for developing the team’s tactics; while trying on new suits, he impulsively kisses Keeley. During Roy and Keeley’s photoshoot for the latter’s magazine profile, Keeley admits Nate’s kiss and Jamie’s confession of love at the funeral, and Roy tells her he spent 3 hours with Phoebe’s teacher, leaving both shaken. Ted learns that Sharon left before her last day, and he tracks her down to give her the team’s parting gift. Later, Ted receives a text message from Trent Crimm tipping him off about a forthcoming article on Ted’s matchday panic attack and that Nate was his anonymous source.

Episodes 12

“Inverting the Pyramid of Success”

Ted receives the club’s full support after the news of his panic attack. He focuses on the season’s final match, which would determine Richmond’s promotion into the Premier League. At halftime during the match, Nate tries to abandon his false 9 tactic, but the players elect to stick with it. Ted asks Nate why he is upset with him. Nate angrily responds that Ted has continuously neglected him since joining the coaching staff. Dani scores an equalizing penalty to secure Richmond’s promotion. The team and supporters celebrate, but Nate walks off dejected. Sam decides to stay at Richmond, to Akufo’s fury, telling Rebecca it would be best for his own personal journey. Ted runs into Trent Crimm, who was fired as a reporter after revealing his anonymous source. Keeley learns Bantr’s VC wants to finance her own PR firm. She and Rebecca discover Rupert bought West Ham United. Roy forgives Jamie and Nate for sharing their affections with Keeley but worries she will leave him. Two months later, Rupert greets the newest member of his West Ham coaching staff: Nate.