Brett Goldstein's Mission to Convert J-Lo into a Spurs Fan

Brett Goldstein is on a mission. Not content with playing the eternally gruff Roy Kent in Ted Lasso, the actor is now trying to convert one of the world’s biggest superstars into a fully signed-up Tottenham Hotspur fan.

Jennifer Lopez, he insists, doesn’t really get a say in the matter.

Speaking while promoting their new Netflix comedy Office Romance, Goldstein revealed he has been nudging his co-star firmly toward the “COYS” way of life. Asked if he’d managed to recruit J-Lo to the Spurs cause, he didn’t bother dressing it up.

“She has no other option,” he told talkSPORT.

A Spurs fan’s self-inflicted pain

Goldstein’s devotion to Tottenham is hardly a secret. Nor is his honesty about what that devotion usually entails.

Reflecting on a bleak spell for the club, he once summed up the experience in brutally relatable terms: being a Spurs fan, he said, is “a form of self-harm”. The lows feel endless, the setbacks familiar. Survival, at times, has felt like glory.

“Oh, it’s been horrendous,” he admitted. “Being a football fan, especially for teams that we support, is a form of self-harm. It’s just painful. And then the way we felt when we didn’t get relegated was like we’d won the World Cup.”

That’s the emotional backdrop Goldstein carries into any conversation about Tottenham: the scars, the gallows humour, and the faint, stubborn hope that it might all be worth it one day.

Harry Kane, from N17 to Hollywood

While Spurs have stumbled through inconsistency, their former captain has been thriving on a very different stage.

Harry Kane, who left for Bayern Munich in 2023, has quietly added “film cameo” to his already weighty CV. The England striker appears in Office Romance, and his brief role clearly left its mark on the cast.

Goldstein could barely hide his admiration, not just for Kane the goalscorer, but Kane the person.

“I mean I love Harry Kane,” he said. “Not only is he one of our greatest footballers, but from everything I have seen he seems to be one of our purest hearts. He is a pure heart. There is nothing I like more than a footballer who is a pure heart. He seems like a really, really good man. And a tremendous footballer. Very happy to have him in the film.”

Those are not the words of a casual fan. That’s the reverence of a supporter who watched Kane drag Spurs through season after season and still sees him as the club’s moral compass, even from afar.

Winning over J-Lo

Kane’s appearance could easily have been a throwaway gag, a novelty cameo wedged into the script. It wasn’t.

On set, his scene became a genuine highlight — and crucially, it worked for the one person in the room who didn’t grow up on Premier League storylines.

“That was a really great scene,” J-Lo said. “I remember when we did the first table read with the whole cast before we started shooting, and I guess you guys were saying that you were worried about that scene and how it was going to play. And I read it, and everybody was hysterically laughing. I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is so fun,’ and so we had such a good time shooting it.”

The nerves belonged to the production team, unsure how a footballer would handle a comedy script. The payoff was a room full of laughter and a global superstar genuinely delighted by Tottenham’s all-time leading goalscorer.

Goldstein wants J-Lo in the Spurs camp. Kane, it seems, has already done half the work for him.

The void Kane left behind

While Kane charms Hollywood and tears up the Bundesliga, Tottenham are still trying to patch over the crater he left behind.

The numbers are brutal. In the 2025–26 campaign alone, Kane scored 61 goals in all competitions for Bayern Munich. Over the same period, the entire Tottenham squad managed just 48 goals in the Premier League.

One man outscoring an entire club. Not just any club, but the one that once revolved around him.

That gulf isn’t just statistical; it’s psychological. Spurs lost their talisman, their safety net, their guarantee of goals when the game drifted. They have yet to find anyone — or any combination of players — capable of filling that space.

Roberto De Zerbi now inherits that problem. The Italian has been tasked with rebuilding a side still coming to terms with life after Kane, still searching for a new identity and a new source of belief.

The challenge is stark: turn a team that has spent two seasons staring at its own decline into one that can live without its departed icon.

Goldstein might joke that being a Spurs fan is self-harm, and he might strong-arm J-Lo into the fanbase with a smile. But for De Zerbi and Tottenham, the question is far more serious: who will finally step up so that the club stops feeling like the supporting cast in Harry Kane’s long, ever-expanding story?