WEBVTT 00:00:09.431 --> 00:00:11.474 Everybody knows the aim of the club 00:00:11.474 --> 00:00:14.185 is to get promotion out of the National League. 00:00:16.438 --> 00:00:18.773 With the new ownership coming in 00:00:18.815 --> 00:00:20.400 and funding, 00:00:20.442 --> 00:00:22.027 you know, put into the squad, 00:00:22.110 --> 00:00:24.404 expectations have risen. 00:00:25.030 --> 00:00:26.656 But we try not to create 00:00:26.698 --> 00:00:27.741 a tension 00:00:27.741 --> 00:00:29.159 in the group. 00:00:29.617 --> 00:00:32.412 We're trying hard to keep the focus 00:00:32.454 --> 00:00:34.456 on the process of each game. 00:00:54.309 --> 00:00:56.936 Obviously, at this point in the season, 00:00:57.020 --> 00:00:58.646 it would be better to be right in contention 00:00:58.646 --> 00:01:00.148 at the very top, 00:01:00.398 --> 00:01:02.233 but as a manager, 00:01:02.275 --> 00:01:04.319 you've gotta be focused on what you need to do. 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:05.195 Every game, 00:01:05.236 --> 00:01:06.654 it's a process. 00:01:21.294 --> 00:01:22.837 I speak to a lot of supporters 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.255 in and around the ground, 00:01:24.297 --> 00:01:25.882 not just match days during the week, 00:01:25.924 --> 00:01:27.092 and I'm so determined 00:01:27.217 --> 00:01:29.302 to bring this town success. 00:01:30.136 --> 00:01:31.971 If results don't go well, 00:01:32.055 --> 00:01:34.641 I personally take the responsibility. 00:01:34.808 --> 00:01:36.101 As a football manager, 00:01:36.351 --> 00:01:38.228 you know, you're gonna get sacked. 00:01:38.853 --> 00:01:41.064 We gotta accept it's the nature of the industry. 00:01:41.314 --> 00:01:43.399 You know, the lifespan of a manager 00:01:43.441 --> 00:01:45.318 at any club gets shorter each year, 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:47.112 and, uh, that's it. 00:02:32.323 --> 00:02:33.992 The outcome thus far has been 00:02:33.992 --> 00:02:35.577 just to this side of acceptable. 00:02:35.618 --> 00:02:37.162 It's been more of a struggle 00:02:37.203 --> 00:02:38.413 than we would liked it to have been. 00:02:38.454 --> 00:02:40.290 But equally, we knew we had 10 games 00:02:40.415 --> 00:02:42.208 against tough opposition. 00:02:42.667 --> 00:02:46.129 And that being the case, 00:02:46.129 --> 00:02:48.298 where--where we've wound up at the end of it, 00:02:48.339 --> 00:02:50.884 sort of not ideal for us, 00:02:51.009 --> 00:02:53.761 but it's not disastrous. 00:02:53.803 --> 00:02:56.264 The next 10 games, 00:02:56.306 --> 00:02:58.641 we do need to see a kind of marked improvement, I think. 00:02:59.475 --> 00:03:00.977 And if we don't get an improvement, 00:03:01.019 --> 00:03:04.063 then pressure mounts, you know, on all of us. 00:03:04.522 --> 00:03:07.275 But the guys that we've got here and the management staff 00:03:07.442 --> 00:03:09.819 that we've got here, we expect them to click. 00:03:10.153 --> 00:03:11.905 And if they don't, 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.032 then awkward questions abound. 00:03:20.538 --> 00:03:22.498 We've got some good players. 00:03:22.498 --> 00:03:24.167 We've got a decent squad, 00:03:24.334 --> 00:03:25.752 but, you know, Hyde is injured, 00:03:25.793 --> 00:03:27.462 which is not gonna be short-term. 00:03:27.462 --> 00:03:28.922 Kwame is back, 00:03:29.005 --> 00:03:30.548 but it's unfair to expect him 00:03:30.590 --> 00:03:32.300 to go Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday. 00:03:32.342 --> 00:03:33.801 So we just don't know. 00:03:33.968 --> 00:03:36.012 God bless the January transfer window. 00:03:39.807 --> 00:03:43.478 Ultimately, a football club can only sign new players 00:03:43.519 --> 00:03:45.021 at two times a year: 00:03:45.313 --> 00:03:48.149 during the close-season before the season starts 00:03:48.149 --> 00:03:50.443 and then for this calendar month of January. 00:04:05.750 --> 00:04:07.043 The challenge, of course, is, 00:04:07.085 --> 00:04:08.795 we're only wanting to sign players 00:04:08.836 --> 00:04:12.131 that other clubs are already using or want to keep. 00:04:12.215 --> 00:04:13.883 Robert and Ryan are great for the club, 00:04:13.925 --> 00:04:16.177 and the financial support that we get is great. 00:04:16.219 --> 00:04:17.762 But they're also our biggest problem... 00:04:17.762 --> 00:04:18.721 Yeah, yeah. 00:04:18.763 --> 00:04:20.932 In that they create a level of expectancy... 00:04:20.932 --> 00:04:21.516 Yeah. 00:04:21.557 --> 00:04:24.477 And financial ability that other people believe 00:04:24.727 --> 00:04:25.728 we have. 00:04:36.906 --> 00:04:38.157 But everyone's-- 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:39.575 then that's the key. 00:04:42.203 --> 00:04:43.329 Rob? 00:04:43.371 --> 00:04:44.706 Hi, Shaun, how are you? 00:05:09.272 --> 00:05:10.606 Mm-hmm. 00:05:11.774 --> 00:05:13.484 Well, I definitely feel fully in the loop. 00:05:13.526 --> 00:05:15.528 I don't know if I feel 100% comfortable. 00:05:23.786 --> 00:05:26.622 We play the rest of the season with this new squad, 00:05:26.622 --> 00:05:28.583 and we don't go up, 00:05:28.624 --> 00:05:32.879 we will be significantly over budget next year. 00:05:42.221 --> 00:05:43.097 yeah... 00:05:49.354 --> 00:05:50.104 Yeah. 00:05:55.651 --> 00:05:57.236 "After nearly 19 games, 00:05:57.236 --> 00:05:58.738 "there appears to be very little improvement 00:05:58.780 --> 00:05:59.906 "in the team's performance. 00:05:59.906 --> 00:06:02.408 If we can't change the players, we must change the manager." 00:06:03.493 --> 00:06:06.245 "Shit formation--haven't got the players to play it." 00:06:06.245 --> 00:06:07.330 "Shocking stuff. 00:06:07.705 --> 00:06:09.499 "I want Parkinson out after Torquay, 00:06:09.499 --> 00:06:11.125 and I have not changed my mind--dreadful." 00:06:11.209 --> 00:06:13.002 "Too slow, appointing a manager 00:06:13.127 --> 00:06:15.046 who inherited a strange retained list." 00:06:15.129 --> 00:06:16.589 is going on here?" 00:06:19.050 --> 00:06:20.134 Rough. 00:06:20.176 --> 00:06:21.844 "If it's not a win, Parky needs to go, 00:06:21.844 --> 00:06:23.721 "and feel free to dig at me. I don't care. 00:06:24.138 --> 00:06:26.140 Stop being shit." 00:06:26.349 --> 00:06:29.102 I'm gonna have a T-shirt made that says, "Parky out." 00:06:29.477 --> 00:06:31.687 If you let him go now, I feel like-- 00:06:31.771 --> 00:06:32.855 first off, like, 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:35.316 it was a coup that we even got him. 00:06:35.400 --> 00:06:36.609 Yeah. 00:06:36.651 --> 00:06:39.320 You let him go seven months later, 00:06:39.362 --> 00:06:41.948 I think it's just as bad a look. 00:06:41.989 --> 00:06:44.117 I think you can't do business like that. 00:06:44.200 --> 00:06:45.535 Mm-hmm. You can't work with people like that. 00:06:45.576 --> 00:06:47.245 I don't mind giving him... 00:06:48.287 --> 00:06:49.414 time. 00:06:49.455 --> 00:06:50.873 The problem is that he's asking 00:06:50.873 --> 00:06:52.959 for a significant amount of money 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:54.585 for the January transfer window. 00:06:54.585 --> 00:06:56.379 The decision we have to make is whether or not we-- 00:06:56.421 --> 00:06:57.797 not only do we keep him-- 00:06:57.839 --> 00:06:58.923 okay, that's one thing. 00:06:58.923 --> 00:07:01.008 - Mm-hmm. - Give him a full season, fine. 00:07:01.008 --> 00:07:02.093 But we're essentially 00:07:02.260 --> 00:07:04.220 doubling down 00:07:04.345 --> 00:07:05.304 not only for this season, 00:07:05.304 --> 00:07:07.932 but for next season, because the players we sign, 00:07:08.266 --> 00:07:10.017 it'll be two- to three-year contracts. 00:07:10.101 --> 00:07:11.394 He inherited 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:12.728 80% of a plan. 00:07:12.770 --> 00:07:13.354 Yes. 00:07:13.354 --> 00:07:15.773 By the way, that's--that's one of the things, so I-- 00:07:17.650 --> 00:07:19.152 Is this the kind of house you-- 00:07:19.193 --> 00:07:21.737 Ask Blake. I have no idea what-- 00:07:22.864 --> 00:07:24.449 Are you kidding me? 00:07:24.490 --> 00:07:25.825 - Yeah. - Is-- 00:07:25.908 --> 00:07:27.201 It's a house of horrors. 00:07:27.243 --> 00:07:28.744 Is this--is that a prop? 00:07:28.870 --> 00:07:30.621 No, that's a-- 00:07:30.663 --> 00:07:31.914 No, this is supposed-- oh, I see, it's therapy. 00:07:31.914 --> 00:07:33.040 Ah, yes, exactly. - It's for ther-- 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.418 it's for therapy. That makes a lot of sense. 00:07:35.418 --> 00:07:36.711 We decided that before 00:07:36.711 --> 00:07:38.337 we entertained spending more money 00:07:38.337 --> 00:07:39.881 on players for Phil in January, 00:07:40.006 --> 00:07:42.508 we needed to see some improvement from the team. 00:07:42.675 --> 00:07:44.760 Phil basically has until the new year to prove 00:07:44.802 --> 00:07:46.053 that he can do the job. 00:07:56.689 --> 00:08:00.109 Most important, the manager is trying to build a relationship 00:08:00.318 --> 00:08:01.486 with players 00:08:01.527 --> 00:08:03.154 to find out what makes them tick 00:08:03.821 --> 00:08:05.573 on a individual basis. 00:08:57.416 --> 00:09:00.753 Wrexham have the lead at the Recreation Ground! 00:09:00.795 --> 00:09:02.838 It was Aaron Hayden who headed it 00:09:02.922 --> 00:09:04.090 into the back of the net. 00:09:07.343 --> 00:09:08.302 And he fires back out-- 00:09:08.344 --> 00:09:09.720 into the net! 00:09:09.762 --> 00:09:12.265 With that, Wrexham have got a second goal! 00:09:14.141 --> 00:09:15.893 It goes into the back of the net! 00:09:15.935 --> 00:09:18.145 It's in! It's in again! 00:09:18.145 --> 00:09:20.565 And it's Hall-Johnson for Wrexham! 00:09:23.693 --> 00:09:25.736 What a goal for Wrexham! Volleys! 00:09:30.366 --> 00:09:33.077 And there is the touchdown. 00:09:33.119 --> 00:09:35.413 And the whistle is blown. 00:09:35.454 --> 00:09:38.916 It's been an absolutely incredible evening 00:09:39.041 --> 00:09:40.418 here in Aldershot. 00:09:40.459 --> 00:09:43.421 Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! 00:09:43.588 --> 00:09:45.172 After smashing Aldershot, 00:09:45.172 --> 00:09:46.465 things are looking up. 00:09:46.507 --> 00:09:49.135 Now Wrexham hoping to keep the momentum going 00:09:49.385 --> 00:09:51.345 as they take on Kings Lynn Town. 00:10:01.355 --> 00:10:02.732 yeah! 00:10:02.773 --> 00:10:04.025 Come on! 00:10:04.066 --> 00:10:05.818 Come on! 00:10:29.925 --> 00:10:31.469 Come on! 00:10:34.555 --> 00:10:37.058 When was the last time we scored five in two games? 00:10:37.141 --> 00:10:39.685 Never. Never in the history, never. 00:10:39.685 --> 00:10:41.937 ' amazin'. Amazin', bruv. 00:10:41.979 --> 00:10:43.022 Yeah! 00:10:43.064 --> 00:10:44.523 6-1! 00:10:44.565 --> 00:10:45.900 Let's go! 00:10:45.941 --> 00:10:47.109 Fantastic. 00:10:47.151 --> 00:10:49.695 Wrexham set a new club record. 00:10:49.695 --> 00:10:53.532 We scored 11 goals in back-to-back away games. 00:10:53.616 --> 00:10:55.034 Well, you can't complain about that. 00:10:55.117 --> 00:10:57.536 Well, those are the two weakest teams in the league. 00:10:57.620 --> 00:10:59.330 Oh, so you can complain about that. 00:10:59.622 --> 00:11:01.082 I'm just sayin'. What are you saying? 00:11:01.082 --> 00:11:02.583 That we should be beating these teams. 00:11:02.625 --> 00:11:03.834 We did beat these teams. 00:11:03.876 --> 00:11:05.086 Yeah, I'm just sayin'. 00:11:05.753 --> 00:11:07.963 You've been reading too many mean tweets. 00:11:10.091 --> 00:11:11.342 Coach! 00:11:11.509 --> 00:11:12.551 Hey, how you doing? How are ya? 00:11:12.593 --> 00:11:13.302 Big fan. 00:11:13.344 --> 00:11:14.762 Rob--damn, man, I'm a big fan of yours. 00:11:14.804 --> 00:11:15.888 Yeah, a really big fan. 00:11:15.888 --> 00:11:17.098 Congratulations on the season so far. 00:11:17.098 --> 00:11:18.516 Thank you. I appreciate it. 00:11:18.516 --> 00:11:20.059 Yeah, we gotta keep it-- keep it stringing-- 00:11:20.101 --> 00:11:21.727 Kinda feels like the momentum's happening though. 00:11:21.727 --> 00:11:22.603 Right? - Yeah. 00:11:22.645 --> 00:11:24.230 - Goddamn, that was-- - It's happening, yeah. 00:11:24.230 --> 00:11:25.272 This is my-- 00:11:25.314 --> 00:11:27.191 I coached at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 00:11:27.233 --> 00:11:27.983 Okay, yup. 00:11:27.983 --> 00:11:29.360 And this was my recruiting area. 00:11:29.402 --> 00:11:30.861 I liked it when I was recruiting, 00:11:30.861 --> 00:11:31.862 and I like it now, so... 00:11:31.904 --> 00:11:33.531 Well, when they love you, they love you. - Yeah. 00:11:33.572 --> 00:11:35.241 And then when they don't, they let you know. 00:11:35.282 --> 00:11:36.367 Right. 00:11:36.367 --> 00:11:37.952 But it's crazy that Coach Pederson-- 00:11:37.993 --> 00:11:39.412 I mean, 00:11:39.412 --> 00:11:41.122 2017, I'm like, God, that was-- 00:11:41.122 --> 00:11:42.248 That wasn't that long ago. 00:11:42.289 --> 00:11:43.582 It was like yesterday. - I know. 00:11:57.054 --> 00:12:00.766 If you had to distill down one piece of advice-- 00:12:00.766 --> 00:12:02.560 What would it be? - What would it be? 00:12:02.601 --> 00:12:04.687 One, enjoy every minute of it. 00:12:04.937 --> 00:12:09.108 Sports, the reason it's popular is because it's unpredictable, 00:12:09.150 --> 00:12:12.445 and the moment you think you've got a really good team, 00:12:12.445 --> 00:12:16.449 um, you'll probably have some bad games, and it'll kill ya. 00:12:16.490 --> 00:12:19.368 I'm on a text chain with a group of my friends 00:12:19.410 --> 00:12:20.828 from Philly that I grew up with. 00:12:20.870 --> 00:12:21.537 Yeah. 00:12:21.537 --> 00:12:22.705 And 00:12:22.747 --> 00:12:23.873 over the years, 00:12:23.914 --> 00:12:26.208 I had the luxury of on Sundays, 00:12:26.584 --> 00:12:29.044 having any opinion that I want to have. 00:12:29.044 --> 00:12:29.837 Totally. 00:12:29.920 --> 00:12:31.213 About what plays are being run... 00:12:31.213 --> 00:12:32.381 Yup. 00:12:32.423 --> 00:12:33.674 What players should be benched... 00:12:33.716 --> 00:12:35.259 Yeah. - What coach should be fired. 00:12:35.384 --> 00:12:36.635 Yeah. - What's Howie doing? 00:12:36.719 --> 00:12:38.012 Yeah. - Right? 00:12:38.095 --> 00:12:39.263 Yeah. 00:12:39.388 --> 00:12:40.890 And it's a release. 00:12:41.098 --> 00:12:43.267 Absolutely. - And it's easy for us, right? 00:12:43.392 --> 00:12:44.477 Yeah. - Because we have-- 00:12:44.477 --> 00:12:45.728 we can have very strong opinions, 00:12:45.811 --> 00:12:48.731 but now I'm on the other end of it, 00:12:48.814 --> 00:12:51.484 where those conversations that are having--that I'm having, 00:12:51.484 --> 00:12:53.110 those are-- those are real people. 00:12:53.152 --> 00:12:55.696 They're no longer characters on my television screen. 00:12:55.696 --> 00:12:58.407 It forces you to have to really 00:12:58.449 --> 00:13:00.826 think through a lot of decisions 00:13:00.868 --> 00:13:03.621 and think about things not just in the short-term. 00:13:03.662 --> 00:13:07.082 What's gonna gratify me for the next month of my life? 00:13:07.166 --> 00:13:09.043 What is best for the team over the course 00:13:09.043 --> 00:13:12.755 of the next 12 months, 24 months, five years? 00:13:12.797 --> 00:13:13.964 Um, 00:13:14.006 --> 00:13:15.216 and what are your values 00:13:15.216 --> 00:13:18.260 in terms of what kind of coach do you want? 00:13:18.302 --> 00:13:20.554 What kind of collaboration do you want? 00:13:20.596 --> 00:13:22.056 What kind of culture do you want? 00:13:22.056 --> 00:13:23.766 - Mm-hmm. - That, to me, 00:13:23.849 --> 00:13:25.559 is something I never thought about as a fan. 00:13:25.601 --> 00:13:26.894 Mm-hmm. 00:13:26.977 --> 00:13:28.270 But then you've gotta also then identify 00:13:28.312 --> 00:13:30.773 where do you think the trajectory is gonna go? 00:13:30.856 --> 00:13:32.024 And that's where the hard decisions are. 00:13:32.107 --> 00:13:35.861 Mm-hmm. If you thought you were on a upward trajectory 00:13:36.111 --> 00:13:37.947 and you had a down year 00:13:37.947 --> 00:13:40.074 and you'd say, "Okay, that was a down year, 00:13:40.115 --> 00:13:42.076 "but we're really on a upward trajectory 00:13:42.117 --> 00:13:43.869 with that coach and with that coaching staff," 00:13:43.911 --> 00:13:45.788 then, you know, you continue. 00:13:45.830 --> 00:13:47.790 If you reach the conclusion that you think 00:13:47.832 --> 00:13:49.792 you're on a downward trajectory, 00:13:49.834 --> 00:13:52.628 and you needed a fresh leadership... 00:13:52.628 --> 00:13:53.879 Mm-hmm. 00:13:53.921 --> 00:13:55.548 Then you gotta make a change. 00:13:55.548 --> 00:13:57.132 And don't be afraid to make a change. 00:13:57.216 --> 00:14:00.678 At the same time, don't be afraid to keep a great coach, 00:14:00.719 --> 00:14:02.513 like I did with Andy over the years. 00:14:02.555 --> 00:14:05.015 There was a lot of criticism-- "Why would you keep Andy Reid? 00:14:05.057 --> 00:14:07.059 We didn't win the Super Bowl that year." 00:14:07.101 --> 00:14:09.019 Well, you know, many of the years, 00:14:09.061 --> 00:14:11.272 we were, uh, in the NFC championship game. 00:14:11.313 --> 00:14:12.731 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:12.773 --> 00:14:14.900 So you gotta--you kind of gotta decipher that, 00:14:14.942 --> 00:14:16.819 but make your own judgment, 00:14:16.902 --> 00:14:18.571 and don't 00:14:18.863 --> 00:14:21.365 shy away from really tough decisions. 00:15:15.169 --> 00:15:17.254 ...because you can drive yourself crazy if you do that. 00:15:17.296 --> 00:15:20.257 So I think you've gotta learn from it, take lessons, 00:15:20.299 --> 00:15:23.177 and move on quickly and don't look back too much. 00:15:30.726 --> 00:15:32.186 And everybody, you know, 00:15:32.186 --> 00:15:34.647 wants to tell me of their passion for the club. 00:15:34.688 --> 00:15:36.106 And you can sense it. 00:15:36.148 --> 00:15:38.400 Yeah, he's well-known in the town apparently. 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:39.610 Very well-known. 00:15:39.860 --> 00:15:41.862 I wish. 00:15:44.907 --> 00:15:45.783 But, uh-- 00:15:51.246 --> 00:15:53.332 It's a club which should never have dropped 00:15:53.374 --> 00:15:56.335 into National League, but it did, 00:15:56.377 --> 00:15:59.964 and it's been some tough years for everybody in the town. 00:16:08.222 --> 00:16:09.348 Yeah. - Yeah, no. 00:16:13.394 --> 00:16:14.311 She converted. 00:16:16.855 --> 00:16:18.190 Don't put that on camera, for goodness sake. 00:16:20.150 --> 00:16:21.819 Really? - Yeah, yeah. 00:16:22.236 --> 00:16:24.405 Football clubs in England and Wales 00:16:24.446 --> 00:16:26.240 can lift a community. 00:16:26.573 --> 00:16:29.034 My job, and obviously, not just my job, 00:16:29.076 --> 00:16:31.245 the owner's job, and everybody playing for the club 00:16:31.286 --> 00:16:34.581 is to do everything we can to bring success to the area. 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:48.971 oh 00:16:57.896 --> 00:16:59.273 I own a bar in Philadelphia 00:16:59.273 --> 00:17:00.524 called Mac's Tavern, 00:17:00.649 --> 00:17:02.443 and it's modeled after Patty's Pub, 00:17:02.484 --> 00:17:03.861 the fictional pub from my show, 00:17:03.902 --> 00:17:05.112 Always Sunny in Philadelphia. 00:17:05.112 --> 00:17:07.239 Since I was in town, and since the last two games, 00:17:07.281 --> 00:17:09.324 the team had been on a bit of a tear, 00:17:09.408 --> 00:17:10.701 I thought it'd be fun to invite 00:17:10.743 --> 00:17:12.369 all of my old friends from Philly 00:17:12.369 --> 00:17:14.538 to come down to the pub and watch the game with me. 00:17:14.830 --> 00:17:16.457 It's a full sellout. 00:17:16.915 --> 00:17:19.126 And it's today? Yeah, it's a full sellout. 00:17:19.168 --> 00:17:21.462 If we score a bucket of goals like we have been doing, 00:17:21.587 --> 00:17:23.213 that place is going to go nuts. 00:17:23.255 --> 00:17:24.465 And that's what I wanna see today. 00:17:24.506 --> 00:17:26.050 That is what I'm hopin' for. 00:17:43.525 --> 00:17:45.444 This is where they usually start kicking it out, 00:17:45.486 --> 00:17:46.820 in the 25th minute. 00:17:47.071 --> 00:17:48.447 Yeah? - Yeah. 00:17:51.742 --> 00:17:53.327 Right, so we're at the game now. 00:17:53.368 --> 00:17:57.039 It's the 35th minute, and it's currently 0-0. 00:18:19.353 --> 00:18:20.854 It's such-- 00:18:20.938 --> 00:18:23.315 apparently, it's such a home team advantage sport, 00:18:23.357 --> 00:18:24.942 which-- Right. 00:18:24.983 --> 00:18:27.194 But the last two games we won were away, 00:18:27.277 --> 00:18:28.779 and we scored 11 goals. Right. 00:18:28.821 --> 00:18:30.405 This is home, and we can't-- 00:18:36.370 --> 00:18:38.288 So 00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:40.207 Wealdstone was a draw. 00:18:40.249 --> 00:18:43.669 But since I had to watch a 0-0 soccer game 00:18:43.669 --> 00:18:45.712 in Philadelphia in front of everyone I know, 00:18:45.712 --> 00:18:47.339 it counts as a loss. 00:18:49.341 --> 00:18:50.592 That seems very petty. 00:18:50.592 --> 00:18:52.010 Shut up, Ryan. 00:19:02.146 --> 00:19:03.355 Come on! Yeah! 00:19:03.397 --> 00:19:05.232 Passes the ball, moves, and it's in! 00:19:05.274 --> 00:19:06.316 Yeah! A goal! 00:19:06.358 --> 00:19:08.402 And that's a great goal! Yeah! 00:19:15.159 --> 00:19:16.410 Seventh place. 00:19:16.493 --> 00:19:18.370 Not bad. 00:19:19.037 --> 00:19:20.164 You're still mad, aren't you? 00:19:20.205 --> 00:19:21.456 It was in front of all my friends. 00:19:21.540 --> 00:19:23.417 That game was so boring. 00:19:23.458 --> 00:19:25.502 It was one draw. He won the other four games. 00:19:25.502 --> 00:19:26.837 All my friends were there. 00:19:26.879 --> 00:19:29.047 Okay, I think we should talk about this later. 00:19:29.339 --> 00:19:30.340 All of 'em. 00:19:30.382 --> 00:19:31.383 Everyone. 00:19:33.260 --> 00:19:35.429 And it's 2-0 to Yeovil. 00:19:35.470 --> 00:19:37.931 And fans start to leave now. 00:19:44.438 --> 00:19:45.856 It's Davies. 00:19:46.815 --> 00:19:48.483 And it's in. 00:19:48.567 --> 00:19:49.484 Young Will reversed. 00:19:49.568 --> 00:19:50.861 Ball's to Jordan Davies. 00:19:50.903 --> 00:19:52.029 Peels across this man. 00:19:52.070 --> 00:19:53.572 Jordan Davies chips the ball to the back post. 00:19:53.572 --> 00:19:55.032 Across the middle! 00:19:57.868 --> 00:20:00.454 Come on! 00:20:25.687 --> 00:20:26.396 George? 00:20:27.981 --> 00:20:29.066 Thank you very much. 00:20:31.151 --> 00:20:32.444 Phil and his son George 00:20:32.486 --> 00:20:34.071 come in on a regular basis, couple of times a week. 00:20:34.112 --> 00:20:35.447 Um, he has a bit of a superstition 00:20:35.489 --> 00:20:37.699 about what meal he has prior to a match. 00:20:38.033 --> 00:20:39.493 Oh, the main man's here. 00:20:39.534 --> 00:20:41.328 Get him on the camera. Oh... 00:20:41.411 --> 00:20:43.205 Come on, this is the man you wanna speak to. 00:20:43.288 --> 00:20:44.248 You see we got dressed up for this. 00:20:44.998 --> 00:20:46.708 So it's quite funny to see when he comes in, 00:20:46.750 --> 00:20:47.751 having his meals. 00:20:47.793 --> 00:20:48.919 Come join us. - I'll come join you, yeah. 00:20:50.003 --> 00:20:51.255 Yeah. We're really having a quick snack. 00:20:51.296 --> 00:20:52.297 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:56.385 --> 00:20:58.512 Thank you very much. - Thank you. 00:20:58.637 --> 00:21:01.181 - And not the granola. - Not the granola today. 00:21:01.181 --> 00:21:02.975 No, I have that every other day, don't I? 00:21:03.016 --> 00:21:04.393 Usually, if I make his meal, 00:21:04.393 --> 00:21:06.270 it's usually scrambled eggs on toast. 00:21:06.812 --> 00:21:08.105 They're really good, nice guys. 00:21:08.146 --> 00:21:09.147 Come in super friendly. 00:21:12.651 --> 00:21:13.944 Nice, it's good. 00:21:13.986 --> 00:21:15.779 We don't argue much at all, to be honest. 00:21:15.904 --> 00:21:17.698 There are a lot of people who ask me, "Do you argue?" 00:21:17.948 --> 00:21:19.533 And, uh, no. 00:21:19.574 --> 00:21:21.451 I don't think it's as much as people would expect. 00:21:21.493 --> 00:21:22.911 We've got a good working relationship, 00:21:23.036 --> 00:21:24.121 I would say, yeah. 00:21:44.141 --> 00:21:45.559 And there's the final whistle. 00:21:45.600 --> 00:21:48.103 County celebrate victory. 00:21:53.358 --> 00:21:55.819 Frustration, huge frustration for Wrexham. 00:22:00.073 --> 00:22:01.575 When we started this 10-game stretch, 00:22:01.575 --> 00:22:03.201 we were in 12th place. 00:22:03.243 --> 00:22:04.995 Phil's gotten us all the way up to third place, 00:22:05.037 --> 00:22:07.164 but we still can't beat the top teams. 00:22:07.205 --> 00:22:09.082 But what does that mean? 00:22:09.166 --> 00:22:11.293 It means we won't get promoted, is what it means. 00:22:11.335 --> 00:22:13.295 So what do we change? 00:22:13.587 --> 00:22:16.173 How do we get from third to first? 00:22:21.386 --> 00:22:23.555 And a frustrating first half ends. 00:22:23.597 --> 00:22:25.223 Yeovil Town 1, 00:22:25.349 --> 00:22:26.808 Wrexham, 0. 00:22:26.850 --> 00:22:28.769 Plenty of work for Phil Parkinson's side 00:22:28.852 --> 00:22:30.020 to do 00:22:30.187 --> 00:22:31.355 after the break. 00:22:33.857 --> 00:22:35.233 It's a disgrace, 00:22:36.151 --> 00:22:37.986 an absolute disgrace! 00:22:38.028 --> 00:22:39.446 We turned up thinking, 00:22:39.529 --> 00:22:41.198 "We're gonna stroll around, 00:22:41.239 --> 00:22:42.616 "we'll play, 00:22:42.616 --> 00:22:44.409 we're gonna beat these no problem." 00:22:44.409 --> 00:22:46.036 They're first to every ball, 00:22:46.078 --> 00:22:47.662 they won more challenges, 00:22:47.746 --> 00:22:49.539 they won more second *, 00:22:49.623 --> 00:22:51.625 they be bright on the ball. 00:22:51.666 --> 00:22:53.710 If you're sharp and you're closing down 00:22:53.752 --> 00:22:56.254 and you work, you're sharp with possession-- 00:22:56.296 --> 00:22:57.631 is that right or wrong, Tozer? 00:22:57.672 --> 00:22:59.841 Everybody has been loose in possession, 00:22:59.883 --> 00:23:01.134 'cause that bit hasn't been right, 00:23:01.176 --> 00:23:03.387 first and foremost. 00:23:08.642 --> 00:23:10.102 I can't accept that performance, boys, 00:23:10.102 --> 00:23:13.563 'cause let me tell ya, I'm ecstatic it's 1-0. 00:23:13.605 --> 00:23:14.898 Ecstatic, 00:23:15.023 --> 00:23:16.316 'cause we've been three out of 10. 00:23:16.358 --> 00:23:17.567 They've been eight out of 10. 00:23:17.609 --> 00:23:18.860 They can't get much better. 00:23:18.902 --> 00:23:20.445 We can get a lot better. 00:23:20.487 --> 00:23:22.114 sharp up on the ball. 00:23:28.286 --> 00:23:29.246 It's out to Paul Mullin. 00:23:29.287 --> 00:23:30.288 Mullin on his right foot. 00:23:30.330 --> 00:23:31.832 He places it in! Yeah! 00:23:31.873 --> 00:23:33.375 Yeovil aren't gonna be happy about that one. 00:23:33.417 --> 00:23:34.793 Wrexham have equalized! 00:23:34.835 --> 00:23:36.753 Get in there! 00:23:36.753 --> 00:23:38.255 Davies, Mullin, and Ponticelli fronting, 00:23:38.296 --> 00:23:40.549 James Jones is making a run. 00:23:40.590 --> 00:23:42.259 McAlinden's in space the left-hand side. 00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:43.927 Liam McAlinden's picked out. 00:23:44.052 --> 00:23:45.345 McAlinden crosses, left foot, 00:23:45.345 --> 00:23:46.263 puts it across the goal to Ponticelli! 00:23:46.304 --> 00:23:47.264 To Jordan Davies, sends-- 00:23:47.305 --> 00:23:48.765 an own goal! 00:24:00.152 --> 00:24:01.236 - Whoo! - Yes! 00:24:01.278 --> 00:24:02.737 Yes! 00:24:02.821 --> 00:24:04.906 So we decided to stick with Phil. 00:24:04.948 --> 00:24:06.700 Not just because of the wins and losses, 00:24:06.741 --> 00:24:09.077 but also because of the team culture he's built. 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:10.662 I particularly like the swearing. 00:24:10.704 --> 00:24:12.747 ' hell! 00:24:12.831 --> 00:24:14.166 We also decided to go ahead 00:24:14.207 --> 00:24:16.168 and buy that striker he was asking for. 00:24:16.168 --> 00:24:17.544 You remember in Braveheart 00:24:17.586 --> 00:24:19.087 when they introduce that character 00:24:19.129 --> 00:24:20.755 about halfway through, 00:24:20.797 --> 00:24:23.758 and it completely changes the trajectory of the movie? 00:24:23.842 --> 00:24:24.718 Yeah, 00:24:25.135 --> 00:24:26.011 that's the guy I'm talking about. 00:24:26.011 --> 00:24:27.095 The Irish guy. Remember that? 00:24:27.137 --> 00:24:29.014 Well, now we have our own version of that, 00:24:29.389 --> 00:24:30.515 and his name... 00:24:31.808 --> 00:24:35.562 Ollie Palmer. 00:24:35.604 --> 00:24:36.980 He's English, by the way. He's not Irish.