WEBVTT 00:00:05.552 --> 00:00:08.013 - Excuse us. - Thank you, guys. 00:00:11.516 --> 00:00:12.684 Thank you, gents. 00:00:12.767 --> 00:00:15.311 Keep moving! Guys, move on! 00:00:18.773 --> 00:00:21.651 - Keep it moving! - Sorry, guys. 00:00:21.735 --> 00:00:23.236 Keep going! 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:47.969 Wow. 00:00:48.178 --> 00:00:50.221 Yes, yes, yes. 00:00:50.221 --> 00:00:51.306 Not bad, right? 00:00:51.347 --> 00:00:53.475 I don't think the goosebumps are 'cause it's cold. 00:00:59.022 --> 00:01:02.025 I'm just thinking about how many thousands of people 00:01:02.150 --> 00:01:06.696 have come to watch these games over the last 150 years. 00:01:06.821 --> 00:01:08.239 Pretty incredible. 00:01:08.615 --> 00:01:09.699 Yeah. 00:01:09.908 --> 00:01:11.117 Oh, wow! 00:01:11.201 --> 00:01:13.703 - There you go. - Come on, now. 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.663 Now, that's a stadium. 00:01:15.705 --> 00:01:17.540 - Wow. - Is that better? 00:01:23.213 --> 00:01:27.008 So there is a real risk for us. 00:01:27.175 --> 00:01:28.676 Yeah, I mean, that's part of the anxiety. 00:01:28.802 --> 00:01:30.762 Like, watching the team lose last night, 00:01:30.845 --> 00:01:32.972 you're thinking the investment 00:01:33.264 --> 00:01:35.141 in this club just took a hit. 00:01:35.141 --> 00:01:36.726 Yes. 00:01:36.851 --> 00:01:40.688 And there is a version of the story... 00:01:40.688 --> 00:01:42.524 where we are villains... 00:01:43.274 --> 00:01:44.734 -Where it doesn't-- -Oh, that's my usual story. 00:01:44.859 --> 00:01:46.569 That's usually the story in my head. 00:01:46.569 --> 00:01:47.862 Yeah. It doesn't work, 00:01:48.113 --> 00:01:49.155 and then we go, 00:01:49.197 --> 00:01:52.200 "What are we gonna do? We have to sell it." 00:01:52.408 --> 00:01:54.702 - And then we're the bad guys. - Yeah. 00:01:56.663 --> 00:01:58.164 -* that. -* that. 00:01:58.289 --> 00:01:59.541 Yeah. 00:02:01.292 --> 00:02:02.293 It's gonna work. 00:02:47.755 --> 00:02:51.176 Welcome to Wrexham 00:02:51.217 --> 00:02:55.763 A diamond in the heart of Wales 00:02:55.847 --> 00:02:59.100 This land of dragons 00:02:59.184 --> 00:03:02.520 Coal, fire, and steel 00:03:02.645 --> 00:03:04.689 Hollywood A-lister Ryan Reynolds could be 00:03:04.814 --> 00:03:07.108 about to take on his next big role. 00:03:07.233 --> 00:03:08.818 Fellow A-lister Rob McElhenney 00:03:08.902 --> 00:03:10.528 is bidding with Reynolds. 00:03:10.528 --> 00:03:13.615 They could be about to launch a takeover 00:03:13.740 --> 00:03:15.158 at Wrexham Football Club. 00:03:15.241 --> 00:03:16.826 I'm hoping this is not some big publicity stunt. 00:03:16.951 --> 00:03:18.453 Ah, it's probably just a joke on Twitter. 00:03:18.536 --> 00:03:21.581 We've heard it all before, so it'll go tits up, 100%. 00:03:21.623 --> 00:03:22.874 Don't get me wrong. 00:03:22.916 --> 00:03:26.169 If the intentions are good and to move the club forward, 00:03:26.252 --> 00:03:28.588 then fantastic, but we need to know why Wrexham. 00:03:28.671 --> 00:03:33.426 Welcome to Wrexham 00:03:35.303 --> 00:03:38.431 E-A-G-L-E-S. Eagles! 00:03:47.106 --> 00:03:48.524 I'm from Philadelphia, 00:03:48.650 --> 00:03:52.320 and I've always been a sports fanatic. 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:54.822 I couldn't play anything, but I always love watching it. 00:03:55.657 --> 00:03:58.034 My whole family loved the Eagles. 00:03:58.034 --> 00:04:00.662 It was just something that was a part of my life 00:04:00.703 --> 00:04:02.830 from the time I can remember. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.918 The team becomes an extension of the city. 00:04:06.918 --> 00:04:08.127 - Whoo! Whoo! - Yeah! 00:04:08.127 --> 00:04:09.212 Even as a kid, 00:04:09.462 --> 00:04:13.383 I just remember that gave me something to identify with. 00:04:13.508 --> 00:04:17.178 E-A-G-L-E-S! Eagles! 00:04:21.349 --> 00:04:24.018 I grew up in South Philadelphia... 00:04:25.687 --> 00:04:28.523 On the corner of Moyamensing and Dickinson. 00:04:29.774 --> 00:04:31.526 The Philadelphia that I know 00:04:31.651 --> 00:04:33.736 and the Philadelphia as it identifies itself, 00:04:33.778 --> 00:04:37.365 are people who work really hard for everything that they have. 00:04:38.908 --> 00:04:42.704 Oh, my God. 00:04:42.954 --> 00:04:44.872 This is incredible. 00:04:47.417 --> 00:04:48.835 Oh, my God. 00:04:48.918 --> 00:04:51.713 This is crazy! 00:04:51.754 --> 00:04:53.798 - This is all exactly the same. - Exactly the same. Yeah. 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:56.134 Like, nothing has been changed. 00:04:57.176 --> 00:04:58.928 And the best part about this house was the outhouse-- 00:04:58.970 --> 00:05:00.388 an actual outhouse, 00:05:00.430 --> 00:05:02.098 'cause they didn't have downstairs plumbing. 00:05:02.098 --> 00:05:03.433 So if you were down here 00:05:03.474 --> 00:05:04.434 and you didn't want to go upstairs, 00:05:04.475 --> 00:05:06.936 you just went outside to the outhouse. 00:05:07.353 --> 00:05:08.813 - So, Leo... - Ooh. 00:05:08.896 --> 00:05:13.067 What would it be like to share this room... 00:05:13.067 --> 00:05:14.861 with your brother? 00:05:14.944 --> 00:05:16.404 - Uh, 00:05:16.446 --> 00:05:17.613 is it this small? 00:05:17.613 --> 00:05:18.364 Yeah. 00:05:18.406 --> 00:05:20.158 Like, it would be, like, this exact room. 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:22.410 Honestly, if I could take this, I would. 00:05:23.369 --> 00:05:24.287 You would? 00:05:25.413 --> 00:05:27.498 You want an iPod? 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:29.334 Who doesn't? 00:05:29.459 --> 00:05:30.877 One of the things that was really attractive 00:05:31.002 --> 00:05:33.212 about Wrexham is, even though I've never been there, 00:05:33.338 --> 00:05:35.423 the town reminds me of Philadelphia. 00:05:35.548 --> 00:05:37.884 It's a working-class town. It's a blue-collar town. 00:05:38.009 --> 00:05:41.304 It's a town that has had its ups and downs, 00:05:41.346 --> 00:05:42.930 and they haven't had all the opportunities 00:05:43.014 --> 00:05:44.807 that a lot of other people have had. 00:05:44.849 --> 00:05:46.267 I feel like I know those people. 00:05:46.267 --> 00:05:47.852 I grew up with those people. 00:05:47.894 --> 00:05:49.896 I am one of those people. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.320 Humphrey, what are the rules? 00:05:57.320 --> 00:05:58.363 Well, the rules are 00:05:58.404 --> 00:06:00.698 our team's trying to put the ball in your goal. 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:02.325 You're trying to put it in our goal. 00:06:02.367 --> 00:06:04.535 That's really all you need to know right now. 00:06:04.619 --> 00:06:06.913 -Where am I going? -The goal. 00:06:06.996 --> 00:06:07.997 Yeah, Mom. 00:06:08.039 --> 00:06:09.207 Hey! 00:06:09.290 --> 00:06:10.750 Rob is a new convert 00:06:10.833 --> 00:06:12.085 to the charms and joys of football. 00:06:14.212 --> 00:06:17.632 Rob and I have worked together and we're friends. 00:06:17.757 --> 00:06:19.759 I watch quite a lot of football 00:06:19.842 --> 00:06:22.220 in the writers' room during our lunch breaks. 00:06:22.303 --> 00:06:23.971 Rob started to be like, "What is this? 00:06:24.055 --> 00:06:26.682 Why are you so obsessed with this stupid game?" 00:06:28.893 --> 00:06:30.311 My mind was racing 00:06:30.311 --> 00:06:33.856 when I learned about the English system. 00:06:33.898 --> 00:06:35.650 The idea that you can get 00:06:35.691 --> 00:06:36.609 promoted 00:06:36.734 --> 00:06:38.736 into a league above you and demoted 00:06:38.736 --> 00:06:40.238 and kicked out of the league 00:06:40.571 --> 00:06:41.739 is incredible. 00:06:41.781 --> 00:06:43.491 The English professional football system, 00:06:43.533 --> 00:06:44.575 or pyramid, 00:06:44.659 --> 00:06:46.327 consists of four tiers. 00:06:46.953 --> 00:06:48.496 The Premier League at the top of the pyramid, 00:06:48.538 --> 00:06:50.581 that's the créme de la créme of football 00:06:50.665 --> 00:06:51.666 where you've got your Chelseas, 00:06:51.666 --> 00:06:53.543 Manchester Uniteds. 00:06:53.668 --> 00:06:56.587 And one tier down from that, you've got the Championship, 00:06:56.671 --> 00:06:57.922 then League One 00:06:58.005 --> 00:06:59.799 and League Two. 00:06:59.841 --> 00:07:01.759 So the farther up the pyramid you are, 00:07:01.884 --> 00:07:03.761 the better the talent, the bigger the prizes, 00:07:03.803 --> 00:07:07.390 and thus the more profitable your club becomes. 00:07:07.432 --> 00:07:11.769 Teams can move between tiers via promotion and relegation. 00:07:11.894 --> 00:07:14.397 At the end of the season, the best teams go up, 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.024 and the worst teams go down. 00:07:17.233 --> 00:07:18.734 For the past 14 seasons, 00:07:18.776 --> 00:07:21.612 Wrexham have been playing here, 00:07:21.654 --> 00:07:22.822 below the pyramid, 00:07:23.072 --> 00:07:24.031 in the National League, 00:07:24.115 --> 00:07:25.366 the lowest level 00:07:25.408 --> 00:07:26.951 of professional football in England-- 00:07:26.993 --> 00:07:29.787 the tiers below being semi-professional. 00:07:30.788 --> 00:07:32.790 Being relegated to the National League is... 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:34.667 A bit like football purgatory. 00:07:34.750 --> 00:07:37.253 The wages are low. The prize money is low. 00:07:37.378 --> 00:07:38.546 It makes it very difficult 00:07:38.629 --> 00:07:39.964 for clubs like Wrexham that drop into it 00:07:40.089 --> 00:07:42.967 to get back into the English football league system. 00:07:43.092 --> 00:07:44.552 Imagine, if you will, 00:07:44.635 --> 00:07:48.514 the New York Yankees lose 150 games in a season. 00:07:48.598 --> 00:07:49.682 They finish dead last, 00:07:49.807 --> 00:07:51.017 and they have to drop down a league 00:07:51.100 --> 00:07:52.518 and the following year 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:54.687 play against the likes of the Toledo Mud Hens 00:07:54.729 --> 00:07:56.689 and the Sacramento River Cats. 00:07:56.731 --> 00:07:58.065 And if they keep losing enough 00:07:58.149 --> 00:07:59.525 and they keep dropping leagues, 00:07:59.609 --> 00:08:00.818 then eventually they end up 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:03.070 playing beer league softball in Ithaca 00:08:03.154 --> 00:08:06.657 or against * 12-year-olds in Williamsport. 00:08:08.117 --> 00:08:09.952 And then I called Humphrey, and I was like, 00:08:10.077 --> 00:08:11.829 "If you had a club that had an infrastructure 00:08:11.829 --> 00:08:13.331 "that could at least support 00:08:13.414 --> 00:08:14.957 "an even-ing of the balance sheet, 00:08:14.999 --> 00:08:16.834 "can't you theoretically take a team that's 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:19.545 in the lowest league and bring them to the top?" 00:08:19.629 --> 00:08:20.588 Goal! 00:08:20.713 --> 00:08:22.507 He said, "Yes." 00:08:22.590 --> 00:08:25.009 But as I started to gather more and more information, 00:08:25.051 --> 00:08:26.469 I realized how 00:08:26.469 --> 00:08:27.720 expensive 00:08:27.803 --> 00:08:28.721 it was going to be. 00:08:28.721 --> 00:08:32.433 I realized that I needed something more than TV money. 00:08:32.475 --> 00:08:34.560 I needed... 00:08:34.727 --> 00:08:35.895 movie-star money. 00:08:35.895 --> 00:08:39.482 Sometimes you got to let your heart lead you, 00:08:39.524 --> 00:08:40.900 even if you know it's someplace 00:08:40.942 --> 00:08:42.401 you know you're not supposed to be. 00:08:42.401 --> 00:08:44.487 More than that, I needed 00:08:44.654 --> 00:08:46.364 superhero movie-star money. 00:08:48.950 --> 00:08:51.160 Time to make the chimi-*-changas. 00:08:51.244 --> 00:08:54.580 More than that probably, as we ascended up the leagues, 00:08:54.664 --> 00:08:57.708 I would need alcohol-baron money. 00:08:57.833 --> 00:09:00.461 Aviation American Gin. 00:09:00.545 --> 00:09:03.256 And mobile-phone-services money, 00:09:03.297 --> 00:09:05.758 and... 00:09:05.758 --> 00:09:07.260 what other companies does this * have? 00:09:07.260 --> 00:09:09.554 - Cybersecurity. - Cybersecurity money. 00:09:10.721 --> 00:09:12.848 And--anybody? 00:09:12.974 --> 00:09:14.183 What else has he got? 00:09:21.816 --> 00:09:23.651 What the *? 00:09:24.318 --> 00:09:25.486 That--I mean-- 00:09:25.570 --> 00:09:26.696 That was great. 00:09:26.696 --> 00:09:29.448 In a PG-13 movie like this, 00:09:29.574 --> 00:09:32.451 you get one "*," two "shits," and a glass of white wine, 00:09:32.577 --> 00:09:35.496 and then you say, "Hang on to your PG-13 rating." 00:09:37.623 --> 00:09:39.709 I grew up in a working-class family, 00:09:40.293 --> 00:09:41.836 and I have three older brothers. 00:09:41.877 --> 00:09:45.756 My father struggled in a number of different ways. 00:09:45.756 --> 00:09:47.425 My dad started as a cop, 00:09:48.634 --> 00:09:49.844 then became a food broker, 00:09:49.844 --> 00:09:52.179 which sounds like a cover for a CIA agent or something, 00:09:52.263 --> 00:09:54.181 but that was his actual job. 00:09:54.390 --> 00:09:55.683 Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, 00:09:55.725 --> 00:09:57.143 oh, my God, oh, my God! 00:09:58.352 --> 00:10:00.313 The main place I got validation from my father-- 00:10:00.396 --> 00:10:02.231 like, if I was good at sports, 00:10:02.315 --> 00:10:04.525 in my father's eyes, I was doing all right. 00:10:04.900 --> 00:10:07.445 So I played sports long past the point 00:10:07.486 --> 00:10:10.489 where I was, like, really driven to play sports. 00:10:10.489 --> 00:10:11.490 Go back to, like-- yeah, right here. 00:10:11.490 --> 00:10:12.992 - Yeah. - Yeah. Here we go. 00:10:14.452 --> 00:10:16.954 It carried on, it carried on all through show business, 00:10:16.996 --> 00:10:18.414 all that, so, you know, 00:10:18.456 --> 00:10:20.207 it's like an unquenchable thirst for validation. 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:24.879 My father's been dead for years, but, like, 00:10:24.962 --> 00:10:26.756 it's, you know, you kind of-- 00:10:26.797 --> 00:10:28.924 stuff doesn't really go away. 00:10:29.216 --> 00:10:30.885 It's easier to sort of think of him, you know, 00:10:30.926 --> 00:10:33.512 the way I'm describing him, as, like, a really hard-*. 00:10:33.554 --> 00:10:35.848 He would have thought all of this was wild. 00:10:36.015 --> 00:10:39.352 Like, you know, he didn't really see any of the stuff 00:10:39.352 --> 00:10:40.728 Deadpool forward, 00:10:40.770 --> 00:10:44.023 so I think he would have thought this was all pretty crazy. 00:10:51.530 --> 00:10:53.741 Ryan's FaceTiming me. 00:10:53.783 --> 00:10:54.950 Hey, you look great. 00:10:55.117 --> 00:10:57.328 All you two do is tell each other you look great. 00:10:57.370 --> 00:10:58.788 Yeah. I know. It's just constantly-- 00:10:58.829 --> 00:11:00.539 Why it's such a successful friendship. 00:11:00.539 --> 00:11:02.750 He seems insecure. 00:11:02.792 --> 00:11:04.543 I don't really know Ryan that well. 00:11:04.669 --> 00:11:07.004 I've never met him in person before this. 00:11:07.046 --> 00:11:09.840 We met through social media and then just became friends. 00:11:09.924 --> 00:11:10.925 Great. So that one should work, 00:11:10.966 --> 00:11:13.844 but as long as it's not-- yes, that should work. 00:11:14.762 --> 00:11:18.974 Today is the call to the Wrexham Supporters Trust. 00:11:19.016 --> 00:11:21.560 Because it is a club that is owned by the fans, 00:11:21.686 --> 00:11:24.563 we have to persuade them to vote us through 00:11:24.647 --> 00:11:26.982 by a 75-25 margin. 00:11:27.024 --> 00:11:28.943 It's quite a high bar, but that was put in place 00:11:28.984 --> 00:11:30.194 'cause it had terrible owners in the past, 00:11:30.236 --> 00:11:32.029 and so people wanted to make sure that if they were gonna 00:11:32.113 --> 00:11:33.781 vote for anyone, it was the right person. 00:11:33.864 --> 00:11:35.950 So, you know, we created a proposal 00:11:35.991 --> 00:11:37.451 and really made sure 00:11:37.535 --> 00:11:40.287 that we conveyed to the community our intentions. 00:11:40.329 --> 00:11:41.706 In terms of trust, 00:11:41.831 --> 00:11:43.582 they have been burned before 00:11:43.708 --> 00:11:45.334 -by shady people. -Mm-hmm. 00:11:45.418 --> 00:11:47.086 But we're not some shady businessmen 00:11:47.086 --> 00:11:48.045 that can just, like, 00:11:48.087 --> 00:11:50.965 if this goes south, like, lurk into the shadows 00:11:51.006 --> 00:11:52.550 and pretend like it never happened 00:11:52.591 --> 00:11:53.384 and just go back to our lives. 00:11:53.426 --> 00:11:54.885 No. People know where to find us. 00:11:54.927 --> 00:11:55.970 Yes, yes. 00:11:56.011 --> 00:11:59.557 At stake today is whether or not we get to become 00:11:59.598 --> 00:12:02.977 the next stewards of Wrexham Football Club. 00:12:03.018 --> 00:12:06.272 So if it goes south, then we won't. 00:12:06.397 --> 00:12:09.692 This is a very high-profile thing with a lot at stake, 00:12:09.734 --> 00:12:11.694 and we really don't want to let them down, 00:12:11.694 --> 00:12:13.028 and I think we can speak to that. 00:12:13.028 --> 00:12:14.488 I don't know that we necessarily can speak 00:12:14.572 --> 00:12:16.115 so much to, "You have to trust us," 00:12:16.157 --> 00:12:17.742 'cause then it feels a little Harold Hill to me. 00:12:17.867 --> 00:12:19.618 -Yeah, great. -And I feel like--yeah. 00:12:19.660 --> 00:12:21.579 -Great. All right. Awesome. -Great. 00:12:21.662 --> 00:12:22.997 - All right. - I will, uh-- 00:12:23.038 --> 00:12:25.040 I will see you soon. Bye. 00:12:25.249 --> 00:12:26.917 Ah, he got the last word in. 00:12:27.001 --> 00:12:29.003 *. I got to-- 00:12:31.589 --> 00:12:34.759 Hello, everybody. I hope you can hear me okay. 00:12:34.800 --> 00:12:36.010 My name's Brian Phillips. 00:12:36.051 --> 00:12:38.471 I'm the chair of Wrexham Supporters Trust, 00:12:38.512 --> 00:12:40.473 and I want to welcome members 00:12:40.514 --> 00:12:42.308 and our special guests 00:12:42.308 --> 00:12:45.644 to this very special presentation evening. 00:12:45.728 --> 00:12:47.438 -Please note... -Sweating. 00:12:47.605 --> 00:12:49.398 I would like to invite Rob McElhenney 00:12:49.398 --> 00:12:50.858 and Ryan Reynolds on screen. 00:12:50.941 --> 00:12:52.234 Hey, hey. 00:12:52.276 --> 00:12:53.861 They will talk you through some key questions 00:12:53.903 --> 00:12:56.405 about their proposed takeover of Wrexham AFC. 00:12:56.447 --> 00:12:57.948 We'll start with-- if you could talk us through 00:12:57.990 --> 00:12:59.658 what yours and Rob's vision for the club is 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:01.327 if members decide to entrust it to you. 00:13:01.452 --> 00:13:04.371 I think I just want to start by ripping the Band-Aid off 00:13:04.497 --> 00:13:07.666 and addressing the fact that this is all pretty... 00:13:07.666 --> 00:13:09.835 Pretty wild. 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:11.921 I'm sure it's got to be a little disconcerting 00:13:12.046 --> 00:13:15.090 that a Canadian and an American are so interested in your club, 00:13:15.174 --> 00:13:17.635 but we want to assure everyone on this call 00:13:17.676 --> 00:13:21.096 that we are taking this venture very seriously. 00:13:21.180 --> 00:13:22.973 I don't care if you're a movie star. 00:13:23.057 --> 00:13:25.684 I don't care if you're driving a forklift. 00:13:25.726 --> 00:13:26.894 When you're in a situation 00:13:26.936 --> 00:13:29.438 where you're seeking the approval of other people, 00:13:29.438 --> 00:13:31.524 your brain is always going, "They're gonna say no. 00:13:31.607 --> 00:13:32.691 They don't--they're on to me." 00:13:32.733 --> 00:13:34.527 Imposter syndrome is in full effect. 00:13:34.568 --> 00:13:36.070 Rob, could you answer first? 00:13:36.195 --> 00:13:37.947 And I guess it's the big question-- 00:13:38.030 --> 00:13:39.573 why Wrexham AFC? 00:13:40.699 --> 00:13:41.909 When I tell people 00:13:41.951 --> 00:13:45.412 that the Eagles winning the Super Bowl 00:13:45.538 --> 00:13:47.998 was one of the greatest days of my life-- 00:13:47.998 --> 00:13:50.042 it was top five greatest days of my life... 00:13:50.125 --> 00:13:51.961 That's it! They got it! 00:13:52.086 --> 00:13:54.588 People who are supporters of clubs 00:13:54.630 --> 00:13:56.215 and sporting fans across the world 00:13:56.257 --> 00:13:58.217 know exactly what I'm talking about, and I mean it. 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:00.469 I put it up there with the birth of my children 00:14:00.553 --> 00:14:01.720 and my wedding day 00:14:01.846 --> 00:14:03.848 not because of what happened on the field, 00:14:03.973 --> 00:14:08.143 but because of what it meant to an entire community of people 00:14:08.185 --> 00:14:10.980 and to my relationships with my friends 00:14:11.063 --> 00:14:12.606 and my family members 00:14:12.690 --> 00:14:14.775 and the entire city of Philadelphia. 00:14:14.900 --> 00:14:16.986 I really believe that we can build something like that, 00:14:17.027 --> 00:14:18.445 and I want to be there for that. 00:14:18.487 --> 00:14:20.114 I want to be a part of that, 00:14:20.155 --> 00:14:21.574 and I hope that you will allow us 00:14:21.615 --> 00:14:24.159 to help you achieve something like that. 00:14:24.201 --> 00:14:26.203 Should the majority of the supporters 00:14:26.328 --> 00:14:27.955 decide that we're the guys for the job, 00:14:27.955 --> 00:14:29.707 we would be honored and thrilled, 00:14:29.748 --> 00:14:31.834 and we would never, ever once take that lightly. 00:14:31.917 --> 00:14:33.043 We will laugh at ourselves, 00:14:33.127 --> 00:14:35.254 but we will never laugh at the situation. 00:14:35.296 --> 00:14:37.298 Well, thank you, gentlemen, for your time this evening. 00:14:37.631 --> 00:14:38.924 -Thank you. -Thank you, guys. 00:14:38.924 --> 00:14:40.175 Appreciate it. 00:14:43.596 --> 00:14:44.805 There you go. 00:14:44.847 --> 00:14:46.557 And now it's in the people's hands. 00:14:46.557 --> 00:14:47.600 It is. 00:14:49.643 --> 00:14:52.021 I thought that went very, very well. 00:14:52.146 --> 00:14:53.647 - Yeah. - Agreed. 00:14:53.647 --> 00:14:55.774 You know what was one of my favorite parts was 00:14:55.941 --> 00:14:57.651 when they asked about the documentary 00:14:57.735 --> 00:15:01.655 and you could see the giant camera behind you... 00:15:01.739 --> 00:15:05.075 - Oh, for real? - Filming. Yes. 00:15:05.075 --> 00:15:06.994 Yes, so I was so glad you were like-- 00:15:07.077 --> 00:15:08.579 right away, you were like, 00:15:08.621 --> 00:15:10.080 "Oh, yeah, hell, yeah, we're doing a documentary." 00:15:10.122 --> 00:15:11.874 I was like, "Yeah, we're making a documentary, 00:15:11.957 --> 00:15:13.792 like, right this * second." 00:15:13.918 --> 00:15:16.128 Well, what the *? That's your responsibility. 00:15:16.170 --> 00:15:17.796 I can see a gigantic-- 00:15:17.880 --> 00:15:20.716 Is that an IMAX camera? Like, what the *? 00:15:29.808 --> 00:15:31.268 A lot of people outside the UK 00:15:31.393 --> 00:15:34.146 aren't even aware that Wales is not in England. 00:15:34.229 --> 00:15:35.564 It's a separate country. 00:15:35.564 --> 00:15:37.024 It's on the west coast of the UK, 00:15:37.107 --> 00:15:40.152 and Wrexham's a town of about 65,000 people 00:15:40.277 --> 00:15:43.572 in the northeast of Wales. 00:15:43.656 --> 00:15:46.700 Wrexham was a nice place to grow up. 00:15:46.825 --> 00:15:48.827 It was a really safe place 00:15:48.911 --> 00:15:51.830 where communities pull together. 00:15:52.790 --> 00:15:54.458 And of course, when I was growing up, 00:15:54.667 --> 00:15:56.627 we had a really good football team. 00:15:58.504 --> 00:16:01.840 As a child, my father took me to games, 00:16:01.924 --> 00:16:03.217 and I can remember back then, 00:16:03.258 --> 00:16:06.053 we were what is now known as the Championship 00:16:06.053 --> 00:16:08.639 or the level below the Premier League. 00:16:12.643 --> 00:16:14.812 It's the third-oldest professional club 00:16:14.812 --> 00:16:16.188 in the world. 00:16:16.355 --> 00:16:18.524 It's the oldest club in Wales, 00:16:18.565 --> 00:16:21.860 and it plays at the Cae Ras, or the Racecourse in English, 00:16:21.986 --> 00:16:24.863 which is the oldest international stadium 00:16:24.947 --> 00:16:28.742 still in use anywhere in the world. 00:16:28.742 --> 00:16:32.871 And for many, many years, Wrexham were Wales' best club. 00:16:32.955 --> 00:16:34.790 And it's Thomas who takes it. 00:16:34.915 --> 00:16:36.875 Oh, what a goal! Mickey Thomas! 00:16:36.959 --> 00:16:38.544 When I started watching Wrexham, 00:16:38.585 --> 00:16:40.963 we had a team of heroes in those days. 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:46.844 Wrexham's crowds would compare favorably with many clubs, 00:16:46.885 --> 00:16:48.262 even sometimes in top divisions 00:16:48.303 --> 00:16:50.014 in other countries in Europe. 00:16:54.101 --> 00:16:56.812 Three, two, one, fire. 00:16:58.772 --> 00:17:01.025 But by the very early '80s, 00:17:01.108 --> 00:17:03.027 Wrexham became a very depressed town 00:17:03.068 --> 00:17:05.612 with incredibly high levels of unemployment. 00:17:06.780 --> 00:17:09.658 People have asked me, "What's Wrexham like?" 00:17:09.742 --> 00:17:11.326 I've just said, "Don't go." 00:17:11.410 --> 00:17:12.995 "It's a load of rubbish." 00:17:13.203 --> 00:17:15.164 "You're wasting your time." 00:17:16.248 --> 00:17:17.416 The football club 00:17:17.458 --> 00:17:19.209 was impacted by hard times as well. 00:17:19.293 --> 00:17:21.253 In a small place, the fortunes of the town 00:17:21.378 --> 00:17:24.048 and its team are inextricably intertwined. 00:17:24.173 --> 00:17:27.926 The two absolutely depend upon one another. 00:17:28.052 --> 00:17:30.763 Wrexham is a town that battles 00:17:30.888 --> 00:17:33.932 against odds constantly. 00:17:33.974 --> 00:17:36.060 It really is a place where people deserve 00:17:36.143 --> 00:17:39.855 a little bit more than maybe they've got out of life. 00:17:41.356 --> 00:17:45.694 But the thing that we love more than anything... 00:17:45.778 --> 00:17:47.362 is the football club. 00:18:07.382 --> 00:18:08.842 Wrexham-- we're the fifth tier 00:18:08.926 --> 00:18:09.843 of professional football. 00:18:10.010 --> 00:18:12.763 We are the bottom level of the professional game. 00:18:12.846 --> 00:18:14.848 Professional football is everybody, 00:18:14.932 --> 00:18:16.725 whether you're in the National League 00:18:16.809 --> 00:18:18.727 or Premier League, but there is a big difference 00:18:18.811 --> 00:18:20.395 in terms of 00:18:20.896 --> 00:18:21.980 lifestyle, money. 00:18:22.106 --> 00:18:23.107 The average salary 00:18:23.232 --> 00:18:24.358 for a Premier League footballer 00:18:24.399 --> 00:18:27.945 is about £3 1/2 million a year. 00:18:28.112 --> 00:18:30.239 A player in the National League 00:18:31.031 --> 00:18:32.616 will be making...a bit less. 00:18:37.871 --> 00:18:38.997 You tell people 00:18:39.081 --> 00:18:39.915 you're a professional footballer, 00:18:40.082 --> 00:18:42.793 and instantly they think flash car, nice house, 00:18:42.876 --> 00:18:44.002 and it's not. It's not like that. 00:18:45.879 --> 00:18:47.464 Absolute * disaster! 00:18:47.589 --> 00:18:49.007 A lot of times, you can actually hear 00:18:49.091 --> 00:18:50.843 someone calling you shit or... 00:18:54.096 --> 00:18:55.305 Yeah. 00:19:01.979 --> 00:19:04.773 Even playing at this level and getting paid for it, 00:19:04.773 --> 00:19:06.275 it still is living the dream. 00:19:06.316 --> 00:19:08.652 I know the dream is the top, 00:19:08.694 --> 00:19:11.029 but this is still a dream. 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:14.992 When you're in the non-league, 00:19:15.033 --> 00:19:16.160 you've got to grind for everything, 00:19:16.243 --> 00:19:17.411 you got to work hard for everything, 00:19:17.536 --> 00:19:18.495 you got to pay for everything, 00:19:18.620 --> 00:19:20.372 but I think as a football-- it's the same game. 00:19:21.582 --> 00:19:23.959 You're still playing football. You're still enjoying it. 00:19:24.084 --> 00:19:26.461 Promotion's the goal. We want to win the league. 00:19:26.461 --> 00:19:28.255 We want to be the best team in the league by a mile. 00:19:29.089 --> 00:19:30.799 Getting back into that fourth tier, 00:19:30.883 --> 00:19:33.260 the League Two, would be amazing for the club, 00:19:33.302 --> 00:19:34.469 'cause if you get back into the fourth tier, 00:19:34.553 --> 00:19:36.930 you get a lot of funding from the football league. 00:19:36.972 --> 00:19:39.057 I'm really excited the takeover's happening 00:19:39.183 --> 00:19:41.351 because they can improve the whole town as a collective 00:19:41.435 --> 00:19:43.187 in terms of the infrastructure of the town. 00:19:43.270 --> 00:19:45.314 You know, the stadium will likely improve. 00:19:45.439 --> 00:19:46.982 This club's obviously been down in this league 00:19:47.107 --> 00:19:49.276 for a long time now, and as captain, 00:19:49.318 --> 00:19:50.944 I'd love to get to the end of my career and look back 00:19:51.028 --> 00:19:53.780 on being the one that led it back into the football league. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.044 All right, then, with all that said, what we going for? 00:20:07.085 --> 00:20:09.087 If we get an early goal, 2-nil, Wrexham. 00:20:09.213 --> 00:20:10.505 - 2-nil? - If we get an early goal. 00:20:15.844 --> 00:20:16.845 Dave-o, what do you think? 00:20:16.887 --> 00:20:17.930 I'll go 1-nil. 00:20:18.013 --> 00:20:19.723 I just can't see us keeping 'em out. 00:20:19.765 --> 00:20:22.226 We just--we're not confident. I think I'm gonna go 1-1. 00:20:22.267 --> 00:20:23.352 I hope I'm wrong, 00:20:24.478 --> 00:20:26.355 but we just don't score enough goals, do we? 00:20:58.136 --> 00:21:01.139 I'm a volunteer at the club. 00:21:06.353 --> 00:21:09.147 I joined the trust board nine years ago 00:21:09.273 --> 00:21:13.443 as Director, Wrexham AFC, 00:21:13.527 --> 00:21:15.570 and what I do is I manage the budget. 00:21:15.570 --> 00:21:19.116 I organize all board meetings, all agendas. 00:21:19.199 --> 00:21:22.411 I tend to be the person who deals with media 00:21:22.452 --> 00:21:24.329 and more or less the face of the club 00:21:24.454 --> 00:21:26.164 from a business side. 00:21:27.082 --> 00:21:31.044 I've got a r eally big day job for a multinational company, 00:21:31.128 --> 00:21:34.423 which means I work long hours anyway during the week. 00:21:34.548 --> 00:21:36.258 And at weekends, 00:21:36.341 --> 00:21:38.302 I've given everything to the football club that I can. 00:21:38.427 --> 00:21:42.139 I've prioritized it over career advancement, 00:21:42.180 --> 00:21:44.182 over family. 00:21:48.395 --> 00:21:50.689 This season, it's been very, very challenging, 00:21:50.731 --> 00:21:53.150 given global pandemic. 00:21:53.233 --> 00:21:55.610 We weren't allowed to have supporters in the stadium, 00:21:55.694 --> 00:21:59.990 which was the main source of income for the football club. 00:22:02.743 --> 00:22:04.202 Because of the pandemic, 00:22:04.286 --> 00:22:05.662 no fans coming into the ground 00:22:05.746 --> 00:22:08.081 to pay the one major income stream-- 00:22:08.165 --> 00:22:10.459 there's no broadcast money at this level. 00:22:10.584 --> 00:22:12.461 It's what comes in through the turnstiles 00:22:12.586 --> 00:22:13.962 is the major revenue raiser, 00:22:13.962 --> 00:22:15.339 and from March onwards, 00:22:15.380 --> 00:22:17.507 nobody's been coming in to football stadia 00:22:17.591 --> 00:22:19.092 to support the teams. 00:22:24.806 --> 00:22:28.477 So how are the clubs like Wrexham gonna survive? 00:22:28.518 --> 00:22:30.687 It's an extremely uncertain future 00:22:30.771 --> 00:22:32.105 that Wrexham was looking at. 00:22:32.189 --> 00:22:33.607 Face the ball, face the ball! 00:22:33.732 --> 00:22:36.485 So the takeover, from Wrexham's perspective, 00:22:36.610 --> 00:22:39.613 the timing was-- could not have been better. 00:22:41.740 --> 00:22:44.242 In my view, getting out of the National League 00:22:44.326 --> 00:22:46.161 is the hardest job 00:22:46.161 --> 00:22:47.996 in world football. 00:22:48.080 --> 00:22:49.456 Come on, then! 00:22:49.539 --> 00:22:52.000 Yeah! 00:22:52.084 --> 00:22:54.002 And I think if the club wants to get out 00:22:54.002 --> 00:22:55.337 of the National League, 00:22:55.379 --> 00:22:57.172 it needs to change. 00:22:57.255 --> 00:22:59.925 If Rob and Ryan can bring 00:23:00.008 --> 00:23:02.177 that change, then fantastic. 00:23:03.011 --> 00:23:04.846 Thank you very much. 00:23:34.793 --> 00:23:36.002 The home of Wrexham Football Club-- 00:23:36.128 --> 00:23:37.421 the Turf Hotel. 00:23:41.842 --> 00:23:43.427 The club was founded in this very building, 00:23:43.510 --> 00:23:44.636 which sits directly outside 00:23:44.719 --> 00:23:46.555 the main entrance to the grounds. 00:23:54.604 --> 00:23:56.440 The bar is always five or six deep. 00:23:57.983 --> 00:23:59.651 My parents were regulars here, 00:23:59.651 --> 00:24:00.819 and I remember coming to this pub 00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:02.237 after the match and they've won. 00:24:02.237 --> 00:24:03.405 And the jukebox is blaring, 00:24:03.447 --> 00:24:04.781 and people are singing, and people are happy. 00:24:04.781 --> 00:24:08.618 And from that minute on, I was absolutely hooked. 00:24:08.702 --> 00:24:11.455 We had the badge built into the wall. 00:24:11.538 --> 00:24:13.123 That was just my way of, you know, 00:24:13.206 --> 00:24:15.417 keeping the pub and the club connected. 00:24:15.917 --> 00:24:20.046 In my 13 years of being here, we've only ever closed one day. 00:24:20.172 --> 00:24:22.466 We open 365 days a year. 00:24:22.591 --> 00:24:24.468 We even open on Christmas Day and Christmas night, 00:24:24.509 --> 00:24:26.094 but like every other pub, 00:24:26.178 --> 00:24:28.305 we've been closed because of COVID. 00:24:28.346 --> 00:24:30.599 You can't put into words what it means to people. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.309 You know, it's almost like losing a limb, 00:24:32.350 --> 00:24:34.478 because people say it's only a game, but it's not. 00:24:34.603 --> 00:24:35.812 It's more than that, you know? 00:24:35.854 --> 00:24:37.397 This football club means everything 00:24:37.397 --> 00:24:39.858 to people in this town. 00:24:40.150 --> 00:24:42.152 Anybody that you speak to will tell you 00:24:42.194 --> 00:24:45.071 it's been a real difficult decade. 00:24:46.406 --> 00:24:48.241 The past owners that we've had-- 00:24:48.325 --> 00:24:50.494 and are they here for the wrong reasons? 00:24:50.535 --> 00:24:54.122 So you still don't allow yourself to believe 00:24:54.122 --> 00:24:56.625 that this could happen. 00:24:57.125 --> 00:24:59.127 But this set of supporters, this town, 00:24:59.211 --> 00:25:02.088 this community deserves a break. 00:25:07.427 --> 00:25:08.595 Hello. 00:25:08.678 --> 00:25:10.597 - Mustache is gone. - Oh, yeah. 00:25:10.722 --> 00:25:13.892 Yep. I'm no longer on camera, so... 00:25:13.975 --> 00:25:14.851 Well, 00:25:14.935 --> 00:25:15.810 here we are, 00:25:15.852 --> 00:25:18.647 after what feels like an age, right? 00:25:18.772 --> 00:25:21.107 I have actual butterflies right now. 00:25:21.149 --> 00:25:22.692 As you know, 00:25:22.692 --> 00:25:25.320 the threshold on the vote was high. 00:25:25.403 --> 00:25:29.157 So you needed to get a 75% or more 00:25:29.241 --> 00:25:32.494 of those voting for-- for this to pass. 00:25:32.536 --> 00:25:35.497 The turnout was massive, right? 00:25:35.580 --> 00:25:39.167 91.5% of people who could vote voted. 00:25:39.209 --> 00:25:40.710 Wow. 00:25:40.710 --> 00:25:42.337 On resolution one, 00:25:42.379 --> 00:25:45.549 it was a 98.6% for. 00:25:45.590 --> 00:25:46.925 - Wow. - On resolution two, 00:25:46.967 --> 00:25:49.928 it was a 98.4% for, 00:25:49.970 --> 00:25:51.555 and on resolution three, 00:25:51.596 --> 00:25:54.558 it was a 98.4% for, so... 00:25:55.308 --> 00:25:58.228 An overwhelming and resounding yes. 00:25:58.311 --> 00:26:00.564 So congratulations and really well done. 00:26:00.689 --> 00:26:02.524 "Llongyfarchiadau," we say in Wales. 00:26:03.775 --> 00:26:05.318 Thank you. 00:26:05.318 --> 00:26:06.903 Really looking forward to the journey. 00:26:07.028 --> 00:26:08.572 When you wake up tomorrow, 00:26:08.613 --> 00:26:10.198 the announcement will be out there, 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:11.741 and let the fun commence. 00:26:33.972 --> 00:26:36.224 It's not 100% in their control 00:26:36.308 --> 00:26:38.310 that they're gonna get this club promoted, 00:26:38.351 --> 00:26:39.936 but if they do that, 00:26:40.061 --> 00:26:43.565 it will be one of the biggest days 00:26:43.648 --> 00:26:45.942 in the history of the town. 00:26:46.067 --> 00:26:47.777 The Red Army had something to sing about 00:26:47.861 --> 00:26:48.945 this afternoon. 00:26:58.705 --> 00:27:00.624 A good moment to congratulate Ryan Reynolds 00:27:00.707 --> 00:27:03.209 and Rob McElhenney for their recent purchase 00:27:03.335 --> 00:27:05.545 of Wrexham Football Club.