Wrexham Promoted Soccer

[Legion]

A Hollywood season ends with a storybook conclusion.

Wrexham have achieved promotion and will return to the Football League for the first time in 15 years.
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney took over Wrexham in 2021.

They had secret meetings with fans who were part of the club's supporters' trust.

In the first season under Hollywood ownership they just missed out on the play-offs. In the second campaign they were beaten in those post-season games.

This time Wrexham have done it with a record points total. It's not bad for a club who were saved by money generated by fans back in 2011.
Been following this story all season. An epic battle with Notts County.

		Pld	W	D	L	G	A	GD	Pts
1	Wrexham	45	34	8	3	115	42	73	110
2	Notts County	45	32	10	3	116	41	75	106

Great advert for lower league football not only from Wrexham, but the entire national league!

 

[Dylan]

What a fantastic story. 15 years to the exact day that they lost their football league status.

Two brilliant goals from Paul Mullin to seal the title.

 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1649867898083581957

The interview with Rob and Ryan there is very good. Ryan's continual praise of Notts County is nice to hear.

 

[Cappuccino Kid]

What an amazing title race. The exposure for non-league football that has come through Wrexham has been so, so good. This is a win for community football as well with how much Reynolds and McElhenney have focused on being intentional in their ownership of the club. And the stories…Mullin, Foster, etc…it's a joy to watch.

 

[Tom]

Good on them. Hopefully, they continue the success next season.

Reynolds and McElhenney have been a joy and some of their interviews and social media posts are wholesome

 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1650011277517832193

 

[David76]

Reynolds and McElhenney's passion is a delight to see.

Season 2 of Welcome to Wrexham will be brilliant

 

[Tom]

Reynolds and McElhenney's passion is a delight to see.

Season 2 of Welcome to Wrexham will be brilliant

Watching all those interviews and clips is just so heartwarming. The two of them have clearly come in with complete humility and only with the best intentions for the club and community. Really admirable. I wonder how they even heard of Wrexham in the first place.

 

[Crabtree]

I wonder how they even heard of Wrexham in the first place.

There is a lot more in the article, I just snipped the part of how Rob McElhenney became interested in Wrexham.

Why did Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds buy Wrexham?
As the story goes, it is apparently due to British comedian and writer Humphrey Ker that the pair ended up buying a football club.
He was a writer on Mythic Quest with McElhenney and he explained to the BBC how his lunch habits led McElhenney to show an interest in football.

"I'm laying claim to the fact (Rob's) interest in football derives from several years of teasing me for watching football during our lunch breaks at work. Until eventually, just by pure osmosis, I got him interested in the game to the degree that he decides to buy a football team, Ker said.


"Where with a lot of people the journey would have ended with he and I exchanging text messages and me saying 'Ha ha, sounds great, I'd always said I'd do that if I won the lottery, but then within a month's time we had Ryan on board, we had found a football brokerage team in New York and we were in the process of trying to find a football club," he said.

Ker is now the executive director and is able to run things while the owners are over in the states.

He also explained how there was a desire to find a genuine football team that needed the financial help that the trio could lend.

"It wasn't about glamour, it wasn't about commercial viability," Ker says. "And it wasn't the bright lights of, 'Oh, let's buy a team in Cannes, or Saint Tropez United FC' or whatever it may be, it was purely a desire to find a place that wore its heart on its sleeve as a football town and that needed a bit of a helping hand. Because that's what we felt like we could give."

Why did Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds buy Wrexham?

The full back story of how Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds have ended up owning Wrexham AFC in the English National League.

www.90min.com