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• Alex Conrad, Sports Writer

• Published: 18:50, 23 Oct 2025
• Updated: 18:50, 23 Oct 2025

Jason Sudeikis may finally have some high-profile competition.

The 50-year-old plays the iconic role of Ted Lasso, an American football coach who is plucked from obscurity to take over fictional Premier League side AFC Richmond.

'I'm in' - Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon jokes she'll manage Premier League club

But another Hollywood figure could steal Sudeikis' mantle.

To up the stakes even further, the four-time Emmy Award winner's counterpart has even been tipped to manage an existing Premier League club.

During an appearance on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show, actor Reese Witherspoon was touted as a manager-in-waiting by author Harlan Coben, who she co-wrote 'Gone Before Goodbye' with.

The book, which marks Witherspoon's debut as a fiction author, is about a woman named Maggie McCabe, an army combat surgeon who is forced to go on the run as a fugitive when her patient, who doubles as one of the world's most mysterious men, disappears while under her care.

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Throughout the writing process, Coben got a first-hand look at Witherspoon's creative brilliance.

However, that was...