The Crown & Anchor is a fictional pub and restaurant featured in the Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso. The pub seems to be a family-friendly place during the day as many people with children eats lunch there, and during the night it becomes a sport bar where many of the Richmond residents are tuning in to watch their favorite club AFC Richmond matches.
Location[]
The pub is around the corner from Ted Lasso's flat in Paved Court where he usually walk to the place to buy beers and eat lunch or dinner, which is just a six-minute walk from Richmond Station on the Overground, South Western and District Lines.
Events[]
Higgins, Mae, and Ted explains the curse at the pub
During a training session, Dani Rojas is injured; which players and staff members attributes this to a curse at the club. As Dani had entered the treatment room, it is believed he is cursed and would never play for the club again due to injury.
Ted decides to call every player to The Crown & Anchor and tell them to listen to Leslie Higgins and pub owner Mae telling a story about the origin of the curse.
Mae expresses her concern that once the word gets out that the Richmond players are here, the place will be filled with fans. Mae and Higgins then tells the history of the curse: the origins of the curse extended back to November 1914, when posters went up around Richmond area, soliciting men to try out for the team.
The men were duped; it wasn't for a football tryout, but there were recruiters waiting to encourage those boys to fight the World War I. Mae concludes that there were 400 lads enlisted and they had their physical at the treatment room in Nelson Road Stadium. Before she can finishes, the fans are chanting outside the pub, trying to take a glimpse of their favorite footballers, and Mae says 'told you' to Ted.
Gillette Soccer Saturday[]
The patrons at the pub likes to watch Gillette Soccer Saturday on big tv, a UK TV show on Sky Sports hosted by Jeff Stelling which offers highlights of the weekend’s football. When Roy Kent joined the panelist, everyone loves his candor commentaries and his colorful language.
Football Matches[]
Everyone at the pub is cheering watching AFC Richmond scores a goal
The pub has a tradition to watch football matches especially when their favorite team Richmond F.C is playing. Although the patrons likes to hurl insults every time their team is losing, they keep watching and wearing the uniforms and merchandise.
The Residents[]
Mae is the owner and also a barmaid of the pub. She is usually seen behind the bar making drinks, tending the patrons by delivering them drinks and food, and watching football matches with everyone on the big TV.
Baz, Paul, and Jeremy are the permanent patrons in the pub as they spend so much time day and night watching TV together. The three of them are die-hard fans of AFC Richmond and usually watching football matches or competitive reality shows such as The Great British Bake Off. The three friends spends so much time in the pub, it seems they actually live there.
Ted Lasso and Coach Beard adopted the pub as the place for them to hang out when they arrived in London. They bought their first beers and starts to walk around the area near the pub. After collecting suggestions from the AFC Richmond players into a suggestion box, Ted and Beard goes to the pub to eat and to go over each suggestion. Both coaches spend a lot of times having dinner and discussions about the future of their club. Ted even brings Michelle Lasso and Henry Lasso for lunch and introduces them to English culture.
Rebecca Welton spends some time in the pub, especially when she was still married to the owner of the club, Rupert. And as a current owner of the club, she conduct businesses in the pub as well because it was what her ex-husband usually does. She would have lunch with her mother, Keeley Jones, and Ted because it's the closest to the stadium.
Jane Payne is Beard's girlfriend, and in one of her mind-games, she takes a date there and flaunts him in front of Beard while other patrons are being sympathetic towards the coach.
Rupert Mannion is a regular patron especially when he was the owner of AFC Richmond. He knows Mae very well, and even flirts with her in a joking manner. He tends to buy other patrons rounds of drink in order to get popularity. He conducts his business or having meetings with other shareholders in the pub and always play a game of darts. He even takes his current wife, Bex, to the pub and flaunts her because she is younger than Rebecca, his ex-wife.
Mr. Mann is a patron of the pub, usually watching the football matches alongside with other patrons such as Jeremy, Paul, and Baz. He drinks a lot for an old man, and curses all the time.
Richard is a permanent patron of the pub and a former lover of Mae. He usually sits at the bar nursing his drink and read some newspapers. It seems he has a reserved barstool. He dated Mae twice but she broke up with him, however he still coming to the pub.
Nigel is banned from the pub because according to Mae, he soiled himself once.
Trivia[]
- The actual pub used as the filming location in the TV series is called The Prince’s Head in Richmond. It is on the corner of The Green, Golden Court, and Paved Court. The pub’s name has been changed either during filming or in postproduction.
- Florence Pugh had an appearance as a patron during season 1 but her scene was cut.
