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- Hi, Rob. - How are you doing, mate?
You okay? - Very good. Yourself?
- Not bad, not bad.
- The games that happened with--with--
you know, later on and that run we've been on...
- Oh, the run. Yeah. Absolutely.
- Is absolutely phenomenal.
- Everywhere I go now, people just talk about,
"Oh, where you from?" "Wrexham." "Oh."
- Yeah. - "Rob and Ryan got
the football club--- bought the football club up."
- October, November, December time,
we probably weren't particularly happy
with how we were doing,
but this run that we've gone on now,
everything's-- everything's looking...
- great. - Yeah.
* . We're gonna lose.
I'm telling you, on Sunday,
they're gonna lose that game in hand.
And Wrexham's gonna go boom.
'Cause there's been so many
twists and turns this season.
I just think there's got to be another one.
2 1/2 minutes, one touch.
See if we can get it going.
Got to play with some * energy tomorrow.
Wrexham are in the playoffs, come what may.
Stockport currently sit
at the top of the table by 3 points.
They've got two games left after they play us.
We've only got one game left after we play them,
so we can add a maximum of 6 points.
They can add a maximum of 9 points.
If we beat them and they drop points
in their last two games,
we've got an opportunity
to push them right to the wire.
No one's expecting us to do it,
so that, in some ways, makes it a bit easier, I think.
- The underdog. Back to being the underdogs.
- How about that? - Yeah.
I'm excited. I'm looking forward to it.
This is what--you couldn't ask for a better last home game
of the season, in a way.
- If we don't win the league,
I'll miss my stag do.
And if we get into the playoff final,
I could miss my wedding.
That's if we don't get first spot,
which I'm very confident we will.
- If you can't get excited about a game like this,
I don't know--what are you doing in football?
Hi. This is not good content.
Today, obviously, we play Stockport at home,
which a much-anticipated game, a huge game for us.
Very hands-on, especially at the moment,
'cause obviously, we're selling merchandise
for Wembley as well.
I do all tickets and scanners,
setting them all up, making sure they work.
Big game, complete sellout.
Stockport could potentially win the league here,
which we're not going to allow to happen.
Excited, anxious, nervous.
I couldn't sleep last night, bouncing around all morning.
We have to win.
It almost feels like a bit of a Hollywood
potential ending to it all.
We need to get this place today filled with Wrexham fans
as quick as we can so no away fans try and get in.
Halftime, get yourself some dinner.
I don't want to see anybody sitting round.
After ten minutes, I want to see--
no drinking, please.
You shouldn't be drinking at halftime.
Probably gonna have 20, 30, 40 people staying in.
So you're gonna remain steady.
So one or two of you focus on the glasses.
One or two focus on serving.
And the rest of you get the fridges filled,
toilets bleached and cleaned,
- and then stock back up, yeah? - Right.
- Hi, lads.
Come on, Wrexham.
Don't * it up.
- Here we go, we're off to the Stockport game.
No mercy.
- Today's match, it is a significant one.
We expect Wrexham Town Centre to be really busy as well.
Today we've had a really significant
policing operation around it.
It's what we consider a high-risk football match.
So we have put a lot of resource in--in Wrexham today.
There's gonna be more supporters, more fans.
Gonna need probably a bigger police presence,
bigger crowds arriving in a town
like Wrexham as well.
I don't predict it's gonna be a quiet Sunday afternoon,
no.
We're flying, providing an aerial view
of everything that's happening on the ground,
looking at the movement of crowds
and the movement of police resources.
They're expecting the away fans to arrive
at Wrexham General Station.
Mind the gap, please.
The Wrexham fans have pushed on.
- Who wants a beer? - Yay!
- Rob and Ryan, this is a message for you
from the best beard in Wales
to the best football club in Wales:
come on the town!
- Let's go!
- This is Wrexham, this.
- Physicality, intensity, sprint into the ball,
and make them play backwards.
Getting on top of them all over the * pitch.
Don't give them a * inch.
Desire to stop crosses.
Defend crosses if they come in.
A real tenacity to stop crosses.
Can we exploit the space down the sides
of the center backs with quality?
Can we get control of the game with the ball and be patient?
We know how we've got to play.
Let's go and implement it.
The noise, and here come the teams,
Wrexham and Stockport County.
Wrexham in the red shirts, white shorts;
Stockport, white shirts, black shorts.
It's certainly two teams
that wish to be in league one
than rather be in the conference.
Well, I got to say,
I think both these teams
are on a very definite upward trajectory.
And I'm fully feeling this rivalry
will go on for a while.
Listen to that noise, guys.
- Wow. - Wow.
Just wow.
Fasten your seat belts, everyone.
So here we go.
You know,
we actually started--
in the first 15, 20 minutes, made mistakes.
But we very quickly got into our stride in that game
and after that, and I thought we just overpowered them
in--in all areas of--of the pitch.
He changes angle, finds Hosannah.
Hosannah burns past his man
from base, tearing down the flag.
Hippolyte goes to ground to put it out for a throw in.
Here comes Tozer, hurling it in under the bar.
- Yes!
Ollie Palmer glancing it home.
And Wrexham take the lead
in this massive, massive match.
All the bits of detail we set out sort of
came to fruition in that game.
Holds off one man.
Croasdale dispossesses, finds Davies.
Go on!
One above with the keeper.
Wrexham, a super goal.
Love it!
Drills it!
Mull scored a really good goal.
And Ollie Palmer was immense.
Davies and Young go for the free kick.
Davies floats a beauty in.
It's three!
Oh, my goodness me.
So we could be near the final whistle here
as he knocks it long.
Just listen to that.
Come on!
Just listen to that.
Yes.
After today, we're top of the league.
Who'd have thought we'd be saying that?
We're just-- we're top of the league.
Although I was nervous,
every single one of them stepped up today.
You could see how much they wanted it.
It was just fantastic to hear the Racecourse
back to how it used to be,
you know, bouncing, absolutely bouncing.
- Told you all Wrexham were gonna win
this * league, didn't I?
And we're winning the * cup.
It's a shame Rob and Ryan couldn't be here today,
because these are the sort of days
that they invested in the club to be able to see.
- Well, well, well. - Well, well, well.
We are top of the league.
- There's a lot of very happy people here in North Wales.
It's a great day here.
We've got, like, lots of the players' kids
around the pitch having a kick-around.
It's just the perfect end to the season here.
- See you guys.
The mood in the locker room
has got to be incredibly positive.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Correct? Yes.
We won it. The boys were good.
- Hi, Rob. - Yeah.
Enjoy that.
You've done everything you said you were gonna do
and delivered on every promise.
So let's go just win this * league.
Simple as that. Thanks, Rob.
- Yeah. - Appreciate that.
These lads have been phenomenal all season,
so I don't know.
I've just got a feeling in my bones
that it's just all gearing up our way.
- We could still do this. We could still win the league.
Oh, parky, do you know what he's worth
Ollie Palmer is the best on Earth
A lucky striker is just what we need
Ollie Palmer's the best on Earth.
After being defeated at Wrexham,
Stockport County have won their second-to-last game
and moved back into first place.
In order to earn automatic promotion,
Wrexham must win their final game of the season
and Stockport must lose theirs.
Any other result
consigns Wrexham
to the dreaded playoffs.
Our biggest game for a while, isn't it?
Goodness me.
Well, obviously, we've got to go to Dagenham and win
and hope that Stockport lose at home to Halifax.
So I think it's a big ask,
but I think, uh-- I think we can do it.
I think we've got to be positive.
And, uh, I think we'll be celebrating
with, um, possibly a barbecue.
Wrexham supporters
have always been behind the team.
Uh, but we never quite made it
and never really felt like we were gonna get motion.
But this time is different.
How far we've come this season, the progress--
everything's been sort of like a fairy tale.
We've been down here for 14 years,
so it's time we went up.
- Yeah, up the town, up the town.
He plays in red and white
He's * dynamite
We've got Super Paul Mullin
- I've not known the town buzz like this for years.
And it's all down to the football club, for sure.
There's just that sense of something's
happening that things are coming together,
and that really is fantastic.
It's something to really, really
look forward to, uh, 5:00 tomorrow,
Sunday, and see that--
let's get in there and show them how it's done.
For the last two weeks, I've been doing nothing,
just, like, coming in, icing, doing this every day.
So I got to do this every day just to try and keep my bulk.
The Weymouth away is where,
uh, I did my hammy,
my tendon,
my hamstring.
Toz played me a pass, and I opened out to run.
And I just felt a sharp, like, pain in my hamstring.
It wasn't a pop or anything,
which is great, 'cause nothing went.
But it's just, like, a micro tear,
but it was actually in the tendon that got tore.
So...
the tendon tore, and I just knew
I couldn't go on after that 'cause the pain was sharp.
And then at first when the injury happens,
you're just thinking--
you hope it's not bad.
Then obviously, he told me what it was.
And then...
at that point, I was just thinking...
my season's over
and I can't help the boys.
Took a while to sink in.
So today we're off to the last game of the season.
We're going to Dagenham & Redbridge.
I am nervous, to be honest.
We've got four hours until we get there,
four and a bit,
but I am excited,
and I do think we're definitely gonna go up.
- Wrexham! - Wrexham!
Wrexham! Wrexham!
I've said since Christmas,
we're gonna win the league.
It's just a really good time to be a Wrexham fan.
Is it too early to drink?
- What the hell are you doing?
- Uh, I'm working out my anxiety through, uh,
body movements.
- Oh.
We've got two hours and seven minutes,
not that I'm counting.
The fact we're here, the challenge today
is actually what we were seeking to try and achieve
at the outset of the season.
To Halifax.
- You know, and it's a credit to everybody involved
that we got ourselves into this position.
And, uh, we've got 90 minutes away
from, uh, our destiny being known.
Wrexham!
Wrexham! Wrexham!
- Good luck.
We're all behind you.
A horrible wet, windy away day
with a great set of lads with a great...
bunch of fans traveling.
Wrexham!
- I knew what I signed up to.
I knew why I came here.
That's to get this football club
and give this town something to cheer about.
Good afternoon from the final league game
of the National League season.
All comes down to this.
The equation is quite simple.
Wrexham have to win their game.
And it's all eyes on Stockport
in their game against Halifax.
Even if Halifax doesn't win,
we're still somewhere, right?
Then we get the tournament. - Yeah.
And we're underway
at the Chigwell Construction Stadium.
Paul Mullin was not intercepted.
He's on his own, though.
Well, Mullin hits it low, just wide.
He's still in the middle.
Ollie Palmer at the back post.
He was just forced away from goal.
- Oh, Stockport scored.
- Oh.
Goal at Stockport,
not the news Wrexham wanted.
You could literally
hear it pass round the crowd.
Stockport scored early.
Obviously, the result, the scoreline,
filtered around the Dagenham stadium.
Not many people get to deal with pressure in life.
And to have to do it every week is, um, quite strange.
You sort of get used to it,
but obviously, it intensifies as the season goes on.
If, in the game of football,
all the players looked as if they had no energy at all,
there's some reason for that.
to punch it away,
and that's it.
Halftime, nil-nil.
- Shit.
70 * percent.
It's 70% for me, right?
So two things-- as a team, right, listen,
we're coming off this * pitch in the second half.
And we're gonna * put a shift in.
We're gonna work our * bollocks off,
right, out of possession.
And then we're gonna play.
You're * tired.
You're not pushing yourself hard enough.
Football's * hard.
That's what it is.
If we have to carry you off the pitch after 98 minutes,
we will carry you off the pitch.
Get up against the man you're playing against
and be better than him.
Be better than the center half, Ollie,
you and Mulls.
Get in the * box when the cross is out.
Be better than the man you're playing against,
and you'll win this * game, all right?
- Come on, boys. - * come on, then.
Come on. Come on.
If Mulls and Ollie are closing, then we back them up.
Wrexham, we do
We love you, Wrexham, we do
Oh, Wrexham, we love you
- Come on, Wrexham! - Go get him, JJ!
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Jeez. - Uh-oh.
- They're just all over us.
Bryce is in on his right foot.
He hits it. He's in.
And that's been coming,
and with 55 minutes on the clock.
- Dagenham battered us, basically, you know?
The back post, McCallum, goal.
It wasn't good enough.
We all knew it wasn't good enough.
See McCallum lays off to Robinson,
3-nil,
and it just gets worse and worse for Wrexham.
Yeah, it's tough to watch from the sideline
this team not performing, you know?
But I can't say nothing 'cause I'm not playing, you know?
I think, leading up to that game, there--
there was no talk that we could possibly lose the game.
There was all talk that we were gonna--
we were gonna win the game.
As a squad, we probably got carried away with that.
Wrexham's regular season
ends in a 3-nil away defeat
to Dagenham & Redbridge.
Phil Parkinson's side
finish second in the Vanarama National League.
- All right, well, let's go get it.
Let's go get it at Wembley.
And--and let's go get it at Wrexham.
And let's go get it again
in, uh, West Ham.
- Yeah, exactly.
- All right. Talk soon. - All right.
I love that the fans are still behind them.
It's hard, because I never want
to let the fans down.
I wanted to give the people of the town
exactly what they deserve for all their--their passion
and--and their following.
It is a great honor to be on the touchline
with support like that.
You know, the--the fans were outstanding for us,
but they have been all season.
Today they knew that Stockport were winning.
They knew that the lads looked as if
the stuffing had been knocked out of them a little bit.
And they kind of understood that
and gave the lads amazing support,
as they've done all season.
And, you know, it's a--a great privilege
to be the manager on the touchline
in front of those supporters.
And, you know, we've got a great opportunity now
to finish this season in style.
When Rob dragged me into this insanity,
I think that the most common thing we heard was,
"Why Wrexham?"
Not one Wrexham fan has left the stadium.
They're not gonna let this team leave
without showing them what this season has meant.
That question was answered,
I mean, so many times throughout the season,
but I think
that's why.