Gillette Soccer Saturday is a real show featured in the Apple TV+ show, Ted Lasso, and an UK/Ireland TV show on Sky Sports hosted by Jeff Stelling which offers highlights of the weekend’s football. The program updates viewers on the progress of association football games in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Saturday afternoons. The show is sponsored by Gillette.
The program begins with the host and four regular in-studio pundits previewing the weekend's matches, reviewing recent results and debating current issues in football. The show is also famous for the rapport between the pundits and the presenter. There is much banter between the pundits and Jeff Stelling, who, in a good humored manner, often points out each other's mistakes and incorrect predictions.
After Roy Kent's retirement from AFC Richmond, he's been coaching Phoebe's West London Under 9 Girls football team at Richmond Primary School. He's criticizing the children like adults by swearing left and right but at the same time encouraging them to play better. Keeley Jones and Roy are discussing about the possibility of him accepting the pundit job on Sky Sports television channel as a part of Soccer Saturday panelist. Roy refuses as he hates those panelists, especially his former coach and manager, George Cartrick.
Later, the idea for being a pundit is brought up again by Keeley, and Roy eventually concedes to trying it out. With this, he appear on on the show alongside Chris Kamara and George Cartritck with Jeff Stelling as host. Jeff and Chris welcomes Roy warmly, while he only grunts. George mocks Roy when he arrives in the studio, by telling him not to be too emotional after a video of the former Captain crying during a press conference went viral.
Despite his curses and bad language being questioned, Roy is met with positive acclaim especially from his fans on social media. Even Jeremy, Baz, and Paul praises him while watching the show, saying how much they love his candor.
When Jamie Tartt returns to AFC Richmond, they are showing a clip of Roy fighting Jamie, and when asks how he feels about the return, Roy says that Jamie is a Muppet and insults him. The panelists laugh, while George says that Roy should say what he really feels - which prompts Roy to insult George by calling him a shit manager. Jeff tries to subdue the argument while Chris is on Roy's side by saying that George asked for it.
George also compares Richmond under Ted Lasso's management as a woman behind the wheels; completely lost. Roy reminds him that George lost his driver's license for DUI, but he rebuts that it was an allergic reaction to his medication. Roy admonishes him by asking whether the same medication made him urinated his pants which makes Chris laugh and silences George.
After a few stints as a panelist, in the next match against Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Isaac McAdoo is doing a fun warm-up handshakes with his fellow teammates and coaches. It prompts Chris Kamara to comment that it's nice to see Isaac's smile which makes Roy abruptly leave the panel and run off to the Nelson Road Stadium to accept the coaching position offered by coach Lasso. At first, Jeff is trying to stop Roy, but he has no choice but to let him go.
When the story of Ted's panic attack written by Trent Crimm being published, George immediately says that Lasso is clearly not fit to coach. Jeff asks George to be compassionate and Chris tells him to be fair, but George elucidates that Ted's panic attack as an act of cowardice, and compares it with a ship being under attack. He insults Ted by saying that as a captain of the ship, he should have a brain that works, not hiding under a woman's blouse.
Jeff concludes that he misses Roy Kent and implies that he prefers having him better than a sexist George.
When Zava joins Richmond and scores a goal the second the match begins against Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., everyone feels that the club's luck is about to change. It culminates when Richmond is up against Manchester United F.C., and Zava manages to pull up a hat trick and brings the team into their first ever victory against the giant of football club. The new player scores goal every time they are up against their toughest opponents, and their winning streaks brings Richmond to the top 5 ranking of the season.
Jeff asks George whether Ted is such a good coach, but he answers that Richmond is just lucky for having Zava. He praises Nathan Shelley instead who manages to bring great strategy within West Ham United F.C., forgetting the fact that Nate used to be his kit man during his tenure in Richmond. Paul Merson agrees that Nathan's coaching is better and he likes West Ham than Richmond, however he loves Zava more. The panelists agree and laughs from his candid statement.