WEBVTT 00:00:04.009 --> 00:00:06.344 - ££5, please. Thanks for waiting. 00:00:06.386 --> 00:00:09.556 - Sausage, no butter, red sauce. 00:00:12.767 --> 00:00:14.185 - Hi, Rob. - How are you doing, mate? 00:00:14.227 --> 00:00:15.812 You okay? - Very good. Yourself? 00:00:15.895 --> 00:00:17.397 - Not bad, not bad. 00:00:17.439 --> 00:00:20.483 - The games that happened with--with-- 00:00:20.567 --> 00:00:22.277 you know, later on and that run we've been on... 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:23.945 - Oh, the run. Yeah. Absolutely. 00:00:24.029 --> 00:00:25.363 - Is absolutely phenomenal. 00:00:29.826 --> 00:00:32.579 - Everywhere I go now, people just talk about, 00:00:32.620 --> 00:00:34.330 "Oh, where you from?" "Wrexham." "Oh." 00:00:34.414 --> 00:00:35.749 - Yeah. - "Rob and Ryan got 00:00:35.832 --> 00:00:37.876 the football club--- bought the football club up." 00:00:37.917 --> 00:00:40.170 - October, November, December time, 00:00:40.253 --> 00:00:41.755 we probably weren't particularly happy 00:00:41.838 --> 00:00:42.922 with how we were doing, 00:00:43.006 --> 00:00:44.966 but this run that we've gone on now, 00:00:45.050 --> 00:00:47.177 everything's-- everything's looking... 00:00:47.260 --> 00:00:48.303 - great. - Yeah. 00:00:48.386 --> 00:00:49.679 * . We're gonna lose. 00:00:49.763 --> 00:00:50.889 I'm telling you, on Sunday, 00:00:50.930 --> 00:00:53.058 they're gonna lose that game in hand. 00:00:53.099 --> 00:00:54.517 And Wrexham's gonna go boom. 00:00:54.601 --> 00:00:55.727 'Cause there's been so many 00:00:55.769 --> 00:00:57.228 twists and turns this season. 00:00:57.270 --> 00:00:59.272 I just think there's got to be another one. 00:01:42.899 --> 00:01:44.567 2 1/2 minutes, one touch. 00:01:44.651 --> 00:01:46.528 See if we can get it going. 00:01:46.611 --> 00:01:49.614 Got to play with some * energy tomorrow. 00:01:49.656 --> 00:01:51.616 Wrexham are in the playoffs, come what may. 00:01:51.658 --> 00:01:53.618 Stockport currently sit 00:01:53.660 --> 00:01:55.870 at the top of the table by 3 points. 00:01:55.954 --> 00:01:58.623 They've got two games left after they play us. 00:01:58.665 --> 00:02:01.084 We've only got one game left after we play them, 00:02:01.167 --> 00:02:03.002 so we can add a maximum of 6 points. 00:02:03.086 --> 00:02:05.255 They can add a maximum of 9 points. 00:02:05.338 --> 00:02:07.173 If we beat them and they drop points 00:02:07.257 --> 00:02:08.675 in their last two games, 00:02:08.758 --> 00:02:10.051 we've got an opportunity 00:02:10.135 --> 00:02:12.095 to push them right to the wire. 00:02:12.178 --> 00:02:14.139 No one's expecting us to do it, 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:16.641 so that, in some ways, makes it a bit easier, I think. 00:02:16.683 --> 00:02:18.768 - The underdog. Back to being the underdogs. 00:02:18.852 --> 00:02:20.103 - How about that? - Yeah. 00:02:20.186 --> 00:02:22.272 I'm excited. I'm looking forward to it. 00:02:22.355 --> 00:02:24.524 This is what--you couldn't ask for a better last home game 00:02:24.566 --> 00:02:26.025 of the season, in a way. 00:02:27.235 --> 00:02:28.945 - If we don't win the league, 00:02:28.945 --> 00:02:30.864 I'll miss my stag do. 00:02:36.035 --> 00:02:38.538 And if we get into the playoff final, 00:02:38.621 --> 00:02:40.206 I could miss my wedding. 00:02:40.623 --> 00:02:42.709 That's if we don't get first spot, 00:02:42.750 --> 00:02:44.210 which I'm very confident we will. 00:02:44.294 --> 00:02:46.045 - If you can't get excited about a game like this, 00:02:46.087 --> 00:02:48.381 I don't know--what are you doing in football? 00:02:58.391 --> 00:03:00.852 Hi. This is not good content. 00:03:05.565 --> 00:03:08.318 Today, obviously, we play Stockport at home, 00:03:08.401 --> 00:03:12.447 which a much-anticipated game, a huge game for us. 00:03:12.530 --> 00:03:13.907 Very hands-on, especially at the moment, 00:03:13.990 --> 00:03:15.825 'cause obviously, we're selling merchandise 00:03:15.909 --> 00:03:17.452 for Wembley as well. 00:03:17.493 --> 00:03:18.661 I do all tickets and scanners, 00:03:18.745 --> 00:03:20.830 setting them all up, making sure they work. 00:03:20.914 --> 00:03:23.166 Big game, complete sellout. 00:03:23.249 --> 00:03:25.168 Stockport could potentially win the league here, 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:26.878 which we're not going to allow to happen. 00:03:29.422 --> 00:03:31.007 Excited, anxious, nervous. 00:03:31.090 --> 00:03:33.593 I couldn't sleep last night, bouncing around all morning. 00:03:33.676 --> 00:03:35.136 We have to win. 00:03:35.220 --> 00:03:35.970 It almost feels like a bit of a Hollywood 00:03:36.054 --> 00:03:37.472 potential ending to it all. 00:03:37.555 --> 00:03:39.682 We need to get this place today filled with Wrexham fans 00:03:39.766 --> 00:03:42.018 as quick as we can so no away fans try and get in. 00:03:42.101 --> 00:03:43.561 Halftime, get yourself some dinner. 00:03:43.603 --> 00:03:44.771 I don't want to see anybody sitting round. 00:03:44.854 --> 00:03:46.105 After ten minutes, I want to see-- 00:03:46.189 --> 00:03:47.357 no drinking, please. 00:03:47.440 --> 00:03:48.733 You shouldn't be drinking at halftime. 00:03:48.775 --> 00:03:50.902 Probably gonna have 20, 30, 40 people staying in. 00:03:50.944 --> 00:03:52.445 So you're gonna remain steady. 00:03:52.528 --> 00:03:54.280 So one or two of you focus on the glasses. 00:03:54.364 --> 00:03:56.324 One or two focus on serving. 00:03:56.407 --> 00:03:57.784 And the rest of you get the fridges filled, 00:03:57.825 --> 00:03:59.035 toilets bleached and cleaned, 00:03:59.118 --> 00:04:00.787 - and then stock back up, yeah? - Right. 00:04:01.537 --> 00:04:03.122 - Hi, lads. 00:04:03.164 --> 00:04:04.457 Come on, Wrexham. 00:04:04.499 --> 00:04:06.042 Don't * it up. 00:04:06.125 --> 00:04:07.961 - Here we go, we're off to the Stockport game. 00:04:08.002 --> 00:04:09.295 No mercy. 00:04:09.337 --> 00:04:11.881 - Today's match, it is a significant one. 00:04:11.965 --> 00:04:14.425 We expect Wrexham Town Centre to be really busy as well. 00:04:15.802 --> 00:04:17.387 Today we've had a really significant 00:04:17.470 --> 00:04:19.055 policing operation around it. 00:04:19.138 --> 00:04:21.224 It's what we consider a high-risk football match. 00:04:21.307 --> 00:04:23.810 So we have put a lot of resource in--in Wrexham today. 00:04:24.852 --> 00:04:26.813 There's gonna be more supporters, more fans. 00:04:26.854 --> 00:04:28.898 Gonna need probably a bigger police presence, 00:04:28.982 --> 00:04:29.857 bigger crowds arriving in a town 00:04:29.941 --> 00:04:30.942 like Wrexham as well. 00:04:30.984 --> 00:04:33.569 I don't predict it's gonna be a quiet Sunday afternoon, 00:04:33.611 --> 00:04:34.570 no. 00:04:35.655 --> 00:04:38.116 We're flying, providing an aerial view 00:04:38.157 --> 00:04:39.617 of everything that's happening on the ground, 00:04:39.659 --> 00:04:41.661 looking at the movement of crowds 00:04:41.744 --> 00:04:43.454 and the movement of police resources. 00:04:44.455 --> 00:04:46.624 They're expecting the away fans to arrive 00:04:46.666 --> 00:04:48.459 at Wrexham General Station. 00:04:50.003 --> 00:04:51.462 Mind the gap, please. 00:04:53.506 --> 00:04:55.133 The Wrexham fans have pushed on. 00:05:16.404 --> 00:05:19.115 - Who wants a beer? - Yay! 00:05:26.956 --> 00:05:29.125 - Rob and Ryan, this is a message for you 00:05:29.208 --> 00:05:30.960 from the best beard in Wales 00:05:31.044 --> 00:05:33.379 to the best football club in Wales: 00:05:33.421 --> 00:05:34.672 come on the town! 00:05:34.714 --> 00:05:36.049 - Let's go! 00:05:39.886 --> 00:05:41.596 - This is Wrexham, this. 00:06:09.582 --> 00:06:12.752 - Physicality, intensity, sprint into the ball, 00:06:12.794 --> 00:06:14.170 and make them play backwards. 00:06:14.253 --> 00:06:16.089 Getting on top of them all over the * pitch. 00:06:16.130 --> 00:06:17.590 Don't give them a * inch. 00:06:17.673 --> 00:06:18.716 Desire to stop crosses. 00:06:18.758 --> 00:06:20.051 Defend crosses if they come in. 00:06:20.093 --> 00:06:22.053 A real tenacity to stop crosses. 00:06:22.095 --> 00:06:23.888 Can we exploit the space down the sides 00:06:23.930 --> 00:06:25.431 of the center backs with quality? 00:06:25.473 --> 00:06:28.059 Can we get control of the game with the ball and be patient? 00:06:28.101 --> 00:06:29.018 We know how we've got to play. 00:06:29.102 --> 00:06:30.353 Let's go and implement it. 00:06:53.626 --> 00:06:55.711 The noise, and here come the teams, 00:06:55.795 --> 00:06:58.131 Wrexham and Stockport County. 00:06:58.172 --> 00:07:00.591 Wrexham in the red shirts, white shorts; 00:07:00.633 --> 00:07:03.594 Stockport, white shirts, black shorts. 00:07:03.636 --> 00:07:04.804 It's certainly two teams 00:07:04.846 --> 00:07:06.097 that wish to be in league one 00:07:06.139 --> 00:07:08.307 than rather be in the conference. 00:07:08.391 --> 00:07:09.767 Well, I got to say, 00:07:09.809 --> 00:07:11.185 I think both these teams 00:07:11.269 --> 00:07:14.313 are on a very definite upward trajectory. 00:07:14.355 --> 00:07:16.023 And I'm fully feeling this rivalry 00:07:16.107 --> 00:07:17.525 will go on for a while. 00:07:17.608 --> 00:07:19.026 Listen to that noise, guys. 00:07:19.110 --> 00:07:20.778 - Wow. - Wow. 00:07:20.820 --> 00:07:21.988 Just wow. 00:07:22.071 --> 00:07:23.573 Fasten your seat belts, everyone. 00:07:23.656 --> 00:07:24.991 So here we go. 00:07:37.712 --> 00:07:39.422 You know, 00:07:39.464 --> 00:07:41.257 we actually started-- 00:07:41.340 --> 00:07:43.926 in the first 15, 20 minutes, made mistakes. 00:07:47.388 --> 00:07:49.724 But we very quickly got into our stride in that game 00:07:49.807 --> 00:07:52.685 and after that, and I thought we just overpowered them 00:07:52.768 --> 00:07:55.062 in--in all areas of--of the pitch. 00:07:55.897 --> 00:07:58.232 He changes angle, finds Hosannah. 00:07:58.316 --> 00:07:59.484 Hosannah burns past his man 00:07:59.525 --> 00:08:00.985 from base, tearing down the flag. 00:08:01.027 --> 00:08:03.488 Hippolyte goes to ground to put it out for a throw in. 00:08:07.492 --> 00:08:11.037 Here comes Tozer, hurling it in under the bar. 00:08:17.919 --> 00:08:19.587 - Yes! 00:08:19.670 --> 00:08:23.257 Ollie Palmer glancing it home. 00:08:26.594 --> 00:08:28.930 And Wrexham take the lead 00:08:29.013 --> 00:08:32.141 in this massive, massive match. 00:08:32.225 --> 00:08:34.769 All the bits of detail we set out sort of 00:08:34.852 --> 00:08:36.020 came to fruition in that game. 00:08:36.062 --> 00:08:37.230 Holds off one man. 00:08:37.313 --> 00:08:39.023 Croasdale dispossesses, finds Davies. 00:08:39.065 --> 00:08:40.233 Go on! 00:08:40.274 --> 00:08:42.401 One above with the keeper. 00:08:44.612 --> 00:08:46.656 Wrexham, a super goal. 00:08:46.739 --> 00:08:47.949 Love it! 00:08:48.032 --> 00:08:49.951 Drills it! 00:08:57.250 --> 00:08:59.043 Mull scored a really good goal. 00:08:59.085 --> 00:09:02.004 And Ollie Palmer was immense. 00:09:02.088 --> 00:09:03.631 Davies and Young go for the free kick. 00:09:03.714 --> 00:09:04.966 Davies floats a beauty in. 00:09:12.098 --> 00:09:13.558 It's three! 00:09:13.599 --> 00:09:15.434 Oh, my goodness me. 00:09:18.771 --> 00:09:20.565 So we could be near the final whistle here 00:09:20.606 --> 00:09:21.941 as he knocks it long. 00:09:21.983 --> 00:09:24.527 Just listen to that. 00:09:24.610 --> 00:09:25.903 Come on! 00:09:25.945 --> 00:09:27.029 Just listen to that. 00:09:27.113 --> 00:09:30.199 Yes. 00:09:56.434 --> 00:09:58.311 After today, we're top of the league. 00:09:59.604 --> 00:10:01.230 Who'd have thought we'd be saying that? 00:10:01.314 --> 00:10:03.649 We're just-- we're top of the league. 00:10:06.485 --> 00:10:07.737 Although I was nervous, 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:09.655 every single one of them stepped up today. 00:10:09.739 --> 00:10:11.407 You could see how much they wanted it. 00:10:11.490 --> 00:10:13.743 It was just fantastic to hear the Racecourse 00:10:13.826 --> 00:10:15.286 back to how it used to be, 00:10:15.328 --> 00:10:18.080 you know, bouncing, absolutely bouncing. 00:10:22.501 --> 00:10:23.794 - Told you all Wrexham were gonna win 00:10:23.836 --> 00:10:25.212 this * league, didn't I? 00:10:25.296 --> 00:10:27.214 And we're winning the * cup. 00:10:29.508 --> 00:10:31.218 It's a shame Rob and Ryan couldn't be here today, 00:10:31.302 --> 00:10:33.304 because these are the sort of days 00:10:33.346 --> 00:10:36.807 that they invested in the club to be able to see. 00:10:37.850 --> 00:10:40.645 - Well, well, well. - Well, well, well. 00:10:40.686 --> 00:10:42.396 We are top of the league. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.982 - There's a lot of very happy people here in North Wales. 00:10:45.024 --> 00:10:46.317 It's a great day here. 00:10:46.359 --> 00:10:47.693 We've got, like, lots of the players' kids 00:10:47.777 --> 00:10:49.737 around the pitch having a kick-around. 00:10:49.820 --> 00:10:51.489 It's just the perfect end to the season here. 00:10:51.530 --> 00:10:52.573 - See you guys. 00:10:52.657 --> 00:10:53.949 The mood in the locker room 00:10:54.033 --> 00:10:55.201 has got to be incredibly positive. 00:10:55.284 --> 00:10:56.535 - Yeah. Yeah. - Correct? Yes. 00:10:56.577 --> 00:10:58.245 We won it. The boys were good. 00:10:58.329 --> 00:10:59.664 - Hi, Rob. - Yeah. 00:10:59.705 --> 00:11:01.248 Enjoy that. 00:11:01.332 --> 00:11:03.959 You've done everything you said you were gonna do 00:11:04.043 --> 00:11:05.211 and delivered on every promise. 00:11:05.252 --> 00:11:07.713 So let's go just win this * league. 00:11:08.839 --> 00:11:09.882 Simple as that. Thanks, Rob. 00:11:09.965 --> 00:11:11.384 - Yeah. - Appreciate that. 00:11:11.467 --> 00:11:12.718 These lads have been phenomenal all season, 00:11:12.802 --> 00:11:14.136 so I don't know. 00:11:14.220 --> 00:11:15.304 I've just got a feeling in my bones 00:11:15.388 --> 00:11:16.597 that it's just all gearing up our way. 00:11:28.192 --> 00:11:31.028 - We could still do this. We could still win the league. 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.875 Oh, parky, do you know what he's worth 00:11:44.917 --> 00:11:48.337 Ollie Palmer is the best on Earth 00:11:48.421 --> 00:11:51.298 A lucky striker is just what we need 00:11:51.382 --> 00:11:54.844 Ollie Palmer's the best on Earth. 00:11:56.137 --> 00:11:58.389 After being defeated at Wrexham, 00:11:58.431 --> 00:12:01.350 Stockport County have won their second-to-last game 00:12:01.434 --> 00:12:03.936 and moved back into first place. 00:12:04.019 --> 00:12:06.105 In order to earn automatic promotion, 00:12:06.147 --> 00:12:09.275 Wrexham must win their final game of the season 00:12:09.358 --> 00:12:11.152 and Stockport must lose theirs. 00:12:11.235 --> 00:12:12.486 Any other result 00:12:12.528 --> 00:12:13.487 consigns Wrexham 00:12:13.571 --> 00:12:15.322 to the dreaded playoffs. 00:12:15.406 --> 00:12:17.366 Our biggest game for a while, isn't it? 00:12:17.450 --> 00:12:19.034 Goodness me. 00:12:19.118 --> 00:12:21.704 Well, obviously, we've got to go to Dagenham and win 00:12:21.787 --> 00:12:25.291 and hope that Stockport lose at home to Halifax. 00:12:25.374 --> 00:12:26.625 So I think it's a big ask, 00:12:26.709 --> 00:12:28.502 but I think, uh-- I think we can do it. 00:12:28.586 --> 00:12:29.962 I think we've got to be positive. 00:12:30.004 --> 00:12:31.964 And, uh, I think we'll be celebrating 00:12:32.965 --> 00:12:34.341 with, um, possibly a barbecue. 00:12:34.425 --> 00:12:36.469 Wrexham supporters 00:12:36.552 --> 00:12:38.804 have always been behind the team. 00:12:38.846 --> 00:12:41.140 Uh, but we never quite made it 00:12:41.182 --> 00:12:43.851 and never really felt like we were gonna get motion. 00:12:44.101 --> 00:12:46.061 But this time is different. 00:12:52.026 --> 00:12:54.403 How far we've come this season, the progress-- 00:12:54.487 --> 00:12:57.156 everything's been sort of like a fairy tale. 00:12:57.198 --> 00:12:59.074 We've been down here for 14 years, 00:12:59.158 --> 00:13:00.910 so it's time we went up. 00:13:00.993 --> 00:13:04.288 - Yeah, up the town, up the town. 00:13:04.330 --> 00:13:05.623 He plays in red and white 00:13:05.664 --> 00:13:06.957 He's * dynamite 00:13:06.999 --> 00:13:09.293 We've got Super Paul Mullin 00:13:10.377 --> 00:13:13.422 - I've not known the town buzz like this for years. 00:13:13.631 --> 00:13:16.175 And it's all down to the football club, for sure. 00:13:16.217 --> 00:13:18.427 There's just that sense of something's 00:13:18.511 --> 00:13:20.721 happening that things are coming together, 00:13:20.805 --> 00:13:22.515 and that really is fantastic. 00:13:22.556 --> 00:13:23.849 It's something to really, really 00:13:23.933 --> 00:13:26.519 look forward to, uh, 5:00 tomorrow, 00:13:26.560 --> 00:13:28.562 Sunday, and see that-- 00:13:28.646 --> 00:13:31.315 let's get in there and show them how it's done. 00:13:34.318 --> 00:13:35.736 For the last two weeks, I've been doing nothing, 00:13:35.820 --> 00:13:38.239 just, like, coming in, icing, doing this every day. 00:13:38.322 --> 00:13:41.325 So I got to do this every day just to try and keep my bulk. 00:13:41.408 --> 00:13:43.244 The Weymouth away is where, 00:13:43.744 --> 00:13:45.079 uh, I did my hammy, 00:13:45.162 --> 00:13:46.163 my tendon, 00:13:46.413 --> 00:13:47.206 my hamstring. 00:13:47.289 --> 00:13:50.292 Toz played me a pass, and I opened out to run. 00:13:50.376 --> 00:13:53.712 And I just felt a sharp, like, pain in my hamstring. 00:13:53.754 --> 00:13:54.880 It wasn't a pop or anything, 00:13:54.922 --> 00:13:56.048 which is great, 'cause nothing went. 00:13:56.131 --> 00:13:58.050 But it's just, like, a micro tear, 00:13:58.133 --> 00:14:00.010 but it was actually in the tendon that got tore. 00:14:00.052 --> 00:14:01.345 So... 00:14:02.429 --> 00:14:03.556 the tendon tore, and I just knew 00:14:03.597 --> 00:14:05.641 I couldn't go on after that 'cause the pain was sharp. 00:14:05.724 --> 00:14:08.102 And then at first when the injury happens, 00:14:08.185 --> 00:14:09.562 you're just thinking-- 00:14:09.645 --> 00:14:11.480 you hope it's not bad. 00:14:11.564 --> 00:14:13.148 Then obviously, he told me what it was. 00:14:13.232 --> 00:14:15.734 And then... 00:14:15.734 --> 00:14:18.237 at that point, I was just thinking... 00:14:18.487 --> 00:14:19.738 my season's over 00:14:20.155 --> 00:14:21.699 and I can't help the boys. 00:14:23.576 --> 00:14:25.244 Took a while to sink in. 00:14:40.050 --> 00:14:42.219 So today we're off to the last game of the season. 00:14:42.261 --> 00:14:44.138 We're going to Dagenham & Redbridge. 00:14:45.806 --> 00:14:47.224 I am nervous, to be honest. 00:14:47.266 --> 00:14:49.393 We've got four hours until we get there, 00:14:49.435 --> 00:14:50.561 four and a bit, 00:14:50.603 --> 00:14:52.062 but I am excited, 00:14:52.104 --> 00:14:54.273 and I do think we're definitely gonna go up. 00:14:54.356 --> 00:14:58.027 - Wrexham! - Wrexham! 00:14:58.110 --> 00:15:00.112 Wrexham! Wrexham! 00:15:00.237 --> 00:15:02.323 Wrexham! Wrexham! 00:15:04.283 --> 00:15:05.326 I've said since Christmas, 00:15:05.409 --> 00:15:07.202 we're gonna win the league. 00:15:07.286 --> 00:15:09.955 It's just a really good time to be a Wrexham fan. 00:15:12.750 --> 00:15:14.293 Is it too early to drink? 00:15:21.300 --> 00:15:23.052 - What the hell are you doing? 00:15:23.135 --> 00:15:25.554 - Uh, I'm working out my anxiety through, uh, 00:15:25.638 --> 00:15:26.847 body movements. 00:15:26.931 --> 00:15:28.474 - Oh. 00:15:36.649 --> 00:15:39.068 We've got two hours and seven minutes, 00:15:39.151 --> 00:15:41.028 not that I'm counting. 00:15:42.029 --> 00:15:43.948 The fact we're here, the challenge today 00:15:44.031 --> 00:15:45.824 is actually what we were seeking to try and achieve 00:15:45.866 --> 00:15:47.034 at the outset of the season. 00:15:47.117 --> 00:15:47.743 To Halifax. 00:15:48.118 --> 00:15:49.453 - You know, and it's a credit to everybody involved 00:15:49.495 --> 00:15:51.121 that we got ourselves into this position. 00:15:51.163 --> 00:15:53.123 And, uh, we've got 90 minutes away 00:15:53.165 --> 00:15:54.416 from, uh, our destiny being known. 00:15:54.500 --> 00:15:55.542 Wrexham! 00:15:55.668 --> 00:15:56.710 Wrexham! 00:15:56.752 --> 00:15:57.795 Wrexham! 00:15:57.836 --> 00:15:59.964 Wrexham! Wrexham! 00:16:01.882 --> 00:16:03.425 - Good luck. 00:16:03.509 --> 00:16:05.260 We're all behind you. 00:16:07.179 --> 00:16:09.598 A horrible wet, windy away day 00:16:09.682 --> 00:16:11.976 with a great set of lads with a great... 00:16:12.017 --> 00:16:13.936 bunch of fans traveling. 00:16:14.019 --> 00:16:15.312 Wrexham! 00:16:15.354 --> 00:16:16.522 - I knew what I signed up to. 00:16:16.605 --> 00:16:18.899 I knew why I came here. 00:16:18.983 --> 00:16:21.694 That's to get this football club 00:16:21.777 --> 00:16:25.864 and give this town something to cheer about. 00:16:27.074 --> 00:16:30.035 Good afternoon from the final league game 00:16:30.077 --> 00:16:31.870 of the National League season. 00:16:32.287 --> 00:16:34.707 All comes down to this. 00:16:39.169 --> 00:16:40.421 The equation is quite simple. 00:16:40.504 --> 00:16:42.089 Wrexham have to win their game. 00:16:42.172 --> 00:16:44.425 And it's all eyes on Stockport 00:16:44.508 --> 00:16:46.301 in their game against Halifax. 00:16:47.469 --> 00:16:50.014 Even if Halifax doesn't win, 00:16:50.055 --> 00:16:52.182 we're still somewhere, right? 00:16:52.224 --> 00:16:53.475 Then we get the tournament. - Yeah. 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:55.019 And we're underway 00:16:55.060 --> 00:16:57.229 at the Chigwell Construction Stadium. 00:17:03.068 --> 00:17:04.486 Paul Mullin was not intercepted. 00:17:04.570 --> 00:17:05.821 He's on his own, though. 00:17:05.904 --> 00:17:08.365 Well, Mullin hits it low, just wide. 00:17:16.457 --> 00:17:17.291 He's still in the middle. 00:17:17.374 --> 00:17:18.876 Ollie Palmer at the back post. 00:17:18.917 --> 00:17:21.253 He was just forced away from goal. 00:17:25.924 --> 00:17:27.593 - Oh, Stockport scored. 00:17:27.634 --> 00:17:29.344 - Oh. 00:17:30.262 --> 00:17:31.513 Goal at Stockport, 00:17:31.597 --> 00:17:33.515 not the news Wrexham wanted. 00:17:38.479 --> 00:17:40.064 You could literally 00:17:40.147 --> 00:17:42.024 hear it pass round the crowd. 00:17:45.235 --> 00:17:46.320 Stockport scored early. 00:17:46.403 --> 00:17:47.946 Obviously, the result, the scoreline, 00:17:48.030 --> 00:17:50.324 filtered around the Dagenham stadium. 00:17:51.950 --> 00:17:53.786 Not many people get to deal with pressure in life. 00:17:53.869 --> 00:17:56.288 And to have to do it every week is, um, quite strange. 00:17:56.371 --> 00:17:57.790 You sort of get used to it, 00:17:57.873 --> 00:18:00.334 but obviously, it intensifies as the season goes on. 00:18:08.342 --> 00:18:10.052 If, in the game of football, 00:18:10.135 --> 00:18:13.180 all the players looked as if they had no energy at all, 00:18:13.555 --> 00:18:15.307 there's some reason for that. 00:18:22.147 --> 00:18:24.108 to punch it away, 00:18:24.149 --> 00:18:25.109 and that's it. 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:26.985 Halftime, nil-nil. 00:18:31.990 --> 00:18:33.450 - Shit. 00:18:37.037 --> 00:18:38.372 70 * percent. 00:18:38.455 --> 00:18:40.415 It's 70% for me, right? 00:18:40.499 --> 00:18:42.543 So two things-- as a team, right, listen, 00:18:42.626 --> 00:18:44.294 we're coming off this * pitch in the second half. 00:18:44.336 --> 00:18:46.213 And we're gonna * put a shift in. 00:18:46.296 --> 00:18:48.799 We're gonna work our * bollocks off, 00:18:48.841 --> 00:18:49.842 right, out of possession. 00:18:49.925 --> 00:18:51.593 And then we're gonna play. 00:18:51.677 --> 00:18:53.011 You're * tired. 00:18:53.053 --> 00:18:54.346 You're not pushing yourself hard enough. 00:18:54.429 --> 00:18:55.514 Football's * hard. 00:18:55.556 --> 00:18:56.640 That's what it is. 00:18:56.682 --> 00:18:59.518 If we have to carry you off the pitch after 98 minutes, 00:18:59.560 --> 00:19:00.811 we will carry you off the pitch. 00:19:00.853 --> 00:19:02.980 Get up against the man you're playing against 00:19:03.021 --> 00:19:04.356 and be better than him. 00:19:04.398 --> 00:19:05.983 Be better than the center half, Ollie, 00:19:06.024 --> 00:19:07.442 you and Mulls. 00:19:07.526 --> 00:19:08.986 Get in the * box when the cross is out. 00:19:09.027 --> 00:19:11.780 Be better than the man you're playing against, 00:19:11.864 --> 00:19:14.283 and you'll win this * game, all right? 00:19:14.366 --> 00:19:15.033 - Come on, boys. - * come on, then. 00:19:15.117 --> 00:19:16.493 Come on. Come on. 00:19:16.535 --> 00:19:18.328 If Mulls and Ollie are closing, then we back them up. 00:19:18.370 --> 00:19:20.372 Wrexham, we do 00:19:20.455 --> 00:19:22.541 We love you, Wrexham, we do 00:19:22.624 --> 00:19:24.918 We love you, Wrexham, we do 00:19:25.002 --> 00:19:27.671 Oh, Wrexham, we love you 00:19:27.713 --> 00:19:30.549 - Come on, Wrexham! - Go get him, JJ! 00:19:31.550 --> 00:19:33.093 - Come on, come on, come on. 00:19:38.390 --> 00:19:40.184 - Jeez. - Uh-oh. 00:19:40.225 --> 00:19:42.352 - They're just all over us. 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:45.981 Bryce is in on his right foot. 00:19:46.064 --> 00:19:47.149 He hits it. He's in. 00:19:48.901 --> 00:19:50.694 And that's been coming, 00:19:50.736 --> 00:19:53.363 and with 55 minutes on the clock. 00:19:53.405 --> 00:19:55.240 - Dagenham battered us, basically, you know? 00:19:56.909 --> 00:19:58.619 The back post, McCallum, goal. 00:20:02.372 --> 00:20:03.540 It wasn't good enough. 00:20:03.582 --> 00:20:05.042 We all knew it wasn't good enough. 00:20:05.083 --> 00:20:07.085 See McCallum lays off to Robinson, 00:20:07.169 --> 00:20:08.837 3-nil, 00:20:08.879 --> 00:20:11.924 and it just gets worse and worse for Wrexham. 00:20:18.847 --> 00:20:20.307 Yeah, it's tough to watch from the sideline 00:20:20.390 --> 00:20:22.684 this team not performing, you know? 00:20:22.768 --> 00:20:25.312 But I can't say nothing 'cause I'm not playing, you know? 00:20:26.647 --> 00:20:29.608 I think, leading up to that game, there-- 00:20:29.650 --> 00:20:31.318 there was no talk that we could possibly lose the game. 00:20:31.401 --> 00:20:32.945 There was all talk that we were gonna-- 00:20:33.028 --> 00:20:34.529 we were gonna win the game. 00:20:34.613 --> 00:20:36.949 As a squad, we probably got carried away with that. 00:20:39.368 --> 00:20:40.953 Wrexham's regular season 00:20:41.036 --> 00:20:43.288 ends in a 3-nil away defeat 00:20:43.330 --> 00:20:44.957 to Dagenham & Redbridge. 00:20:45.040 --> 00:20:46.625 Phil Parkinson's side 00:20:46.667 --> 00:20:49.211 finish second in the Vanarama National League. 00:20:50.254 --> 00:20:51.421 - All right, well, let's go get it. 00:20:51.463 --> 00:20:52.547 Let's go get it at Wembley. 00:20:52.631 --> 00:20:54.466 And--and let's go get it at Wrexham. 00:20:54.549 --> 00:20:56.677 And let's go get it again 00:20:57.010 --> 00:20:58.262 in, uh, West Ham. 00:20:58.303 --> 00:20:59.805 - Yeah, exactly. 00:20:59.888 --> 00:21:01.974 - All right. Talk soon. - All right. 00:21:02.015 --> 00:21:04.351 I love that the fans are still behind them. 00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:20.367 It's hard, because I never want 00:21:20.450 --> 00:21:23.495 to let the fans down. 00:21:23.537 --> 00:21:25.330 I wanted to give the people of the town 00:21:25.414 --> 00:21:29.001 exactly what they deserve for all their--their passion 00:21:29.084 --> 00:21:31.545 and--and their following. 00:21:46.059 --> 00:21:47.602 It is a great honor to be on the touchline 00:21:47.686 --> 00:21:49.354 with support like that. 00:21:49.438 --> 00:21:51.315 You know, the--the fans were outstanding for us, 00:21:51.356 --> 00:21:53.025 but they have been all season. 00:21:53.066 --> 00:21:55.861 Today they knew that Stockport were winning. 00:21:55.902 --> 00:21:57.988 They knew that the lads looked as if 00:21:58.030 --> 00:22:00.115 the stuffing had been knocked out of them a little bit. 00:22:00.198 --> 00:22:01.283 And they kind of understood that 00:22:01.366 --> 00:22:03.035 and gave the lads amazing support, 00:22:03.076 --> 00:22:04.369 as they've done all season. 00:22:04.411 --> 00:22:06.246 And, you know, it's a--a great privilege 00:22:06.330 --> 00:22:07.581 to be the manager on the touchline 00:22:07.664 --> 00:22:08.915 in front of those supporters. 00:22:08.999 --> 00:22:11.585 And, you know, we've got a great opportunity now 00:22:11.668 --> 00:22:13.879 to finish this season in style. 00:22:18.258 --> 00:22:20.969 When Rob dragged me into this insanity, 00:22:21.053 --> 00:22:24.222 I think that the most common thing we heard was, 00:22:24.264 --> 00:22:26.099 "Why Wrexham?" 00:22:26.183 --> 00:22:28.393 Not one Wrexham fan has left the stadium. 00:22:28.477 --> 00:22:30.062 They're not gonna let this team leave 00:22:30.103 --> 00:22:32.689 without showing them what this season has meant. 00:22:38.445 --> 00:22:41.031 That question was answered, 00:22:41.073 --> 00:22:43.033 I mean, so many times throughout the season, 00:22:43.075 --> 00:22:44.368 but I think 00:22:44.409 --> 00:22:45.786 that's why.