Whoa!
Can't even pull you up. I'm coming down.
And then I tell her I'm moving up to Wrexham,
like, what the *?
It seems Rob, Ryan, and Phil Parkinson
have worked some magic with their record-breaking signing
of 6'5" striker Ollie Palmer.
With a whopping price of ££300,000,
Palmer is coming down two tiers
from League One's Wimbledon AFC.
The big man is sure to invigorate
Parkinson's squad and bring some much-needed physicality
to the top of the pitch.
- Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
- Here? - Yeah, thank you.
- Well, you're on that. You're on it.
Thank you very much.
Well, hello and welcome
to the Racecourse.
Welcome to Wrexham here.
And a match made massive not only by the factor
Wrexham and Grimsby are ancient rivals,
but also by the arrival of Ollie Palmer
and the main team news of Wrexham.
Well, I say the main team news...
By the keeper--
Wrexham take the lead!
On his debut...
And away you go.
This is the furniture knife, innit?
I'm a pro at this now.
Well, I was.
Hope they're nice.
We have had a slow start this season.
With the complete overhaul of players
and the new gaffer, it's a process.
It takes time.
It's got something underneath, though.
It says "empty box." I'm gonna pull that--
That's probably just, uh...
- Pull it off? - To keep it stable.
The ultimate goal is promotion.
The easiest way of getting that
is winning the league,
so I'd love to take Wrexham to that level.
And it allows me to stay at home
and
build a future.
- Yeah. - Yeah?
It's getting there.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
Me and Kelsey met in school at 15,
and ever since then, we've been together.
Been a great ride for both of us.
We've been away from each other,
we've been together,
and now we've moved back here together.
It's great that
I can share my life with Kels
and she can vice versa.
When we found out
that I was pregnant,
we were really happy.
We had a miscarriage during COVID.
So I find out we were pregnant...
it was extra special.
We're in a good place.
We're getting and we're building on our future
and it is a good time and long may it continue.
And hopefully with Wrexham, I can bring my best game,
fulfill potential,
and take us up the leagues.
How do you explain it?
January transfer window shut yesterday,
and it was probably a successful one for us.
And when that does all click,
I think we'll almost become unstoppable in the league.
I'm so determined to bring this town success.
I'm trying everything
that I can
to do that.
And, yeah, it's gonna be an exciting last 18 games.
A right battle
at the top of the National League.
Hayden.
Beaten to the ball there by Grimes.
Reece Hall-Johnson.
In to Luke Young, out to Liam McAlinden.
He's made a difference since coming on.
Puts the ball into the box. It's a great ball.
And it's in the back post, and what a save.
Goes across goal, and it's Ollie Palmer!
He's got it in that time and Wrexham take the lead!
What a moment for Wrexham!
It's Wrexham 1, Chesterfield 0.
You cannot give Ollie Palmer a second opportunity on goal!
- Whoo! Beautiful!
And it's the Red Dragons
who fire ahead
at the Technique Stadium!
And the technique's there.
And ball's gone in.
And it's in!
The goal's been given and Wrexham are in!
The lead, again, is 2-0!
And that is full time
at the Technique Stadium.
And it's Wrexham
who claim all three points.
Wrexham! Wrexham!
- We got away with that one. - I know, I know.
And it's Wrexham
who've come away with all three points.
Entering the final third of the season,
and Wrexham are flying into Match Day 29
after that Chesterfield win,
Now in fifth place
and looking to smash lowly Aldershot Town.
The ball to Mullin.
He takes the shot!
And he takes the goal!
Now attempting the ball.
And Wrexham play it past again.
Davies takes the chance!
Palmer carries on, plays it in smart.
Ball to McFadzean.
Palmer!
- I mean, come on.
And he's--he's...
Just bouncing from one victory to the next
and into Match Day 30.
Wrexham are now up to fourth place
and facing second from bottom, King's Lynn Town,
a team they battered back in November.
- All together made that goal. Great!
Hi, this is Ryan.
This is Rob, and these are the highlights
from Wrexham versus Boreham Wood.
Palmer scores.
Wrexham 1-0.
Hayden heads it in.
Look at this atmosphere.
Yeah!
What a goal!
- Come on, then!
Jones making it three for Wrexham.
Before you know it,
Mullin makes it 4-2, Wrexham.
Upped the talent.
Wow, what a performance that was.
What a win that was.
Wrexham beat Boreham Wood 4-2.
We've been on a good run
with the additions we made
and the work we did in January.
And it wasn't major surgery.
Two feet.
Oh, Young and Greens, down you go!
Ten press-ups for us.
Ollie Palmer's been fantastic for us.
I think he gave Paul Mullin a huge lift bringing him in.
I * scored on Tuesday,
and they're singing, "Johnny Mullins."
- What? - I score on Tuesday,
and they're singing, "Mullin, Mullin, Mullin."
- There's a partnership we envisaged.
And it's shown a lot of signs
that it's gonna be a successful one for the club
going forward, short- and long-term.
- That's not a lot, is it?
I'll just do what I do.
This is an avocado on toast.
Amazing.
- Oh, ta, thank you. Thank you, love.
- Cheers.
No, no.
Ketchup. Yeah, no problem.
Yes, please.
- Enjoy. - Thank you.
- Let's go, Cal. - Let's go.
- This is Cal the Dragon, my name's Ash Freestyle,
and we're here today just filming TikToks
with the Wrexham team.
I do, like, freestyle football tricks
and skills and bits like that.
Show us some skills, then.
Oh, putting us on the spot.
Oh!
All right.
- No one here can do that, man. - No.
We got reached out by our TikTok manager
to come down to Wrexham
and film some TikTok videos with the team.
We'll hit record on the camera.
It's like kicking the ball on the beat.
Pretty fast, as you've seen. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
After you kick it, just run straight out,
and hopefully, it'll look pretty good.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
We better find a new beat for that.
Go!
Just make sure that forward foot,
sweep it 'round the front there.
Hey, hey!
So...
Rough, man.
Mm-hmm.
I think as a manager,
the one thing you gotta remember is
you're dealing with 24, 25 young men.
You've gotta be aware of that,
and sometimes it's not just a case
of, "You're not playing very well."
You know, between all the staff,
we try and spend as much time
with the players as we can.
And, um, that's sometimes
not sitting in the office.
It might just be a casual chat
on the training pitch before training.
Jordy.
Yeah, how's the missus?
From the first scans,
things were never really right.
It's not--we just haven't had any good news at all.
- Oh, really? - Like, for the whole.
It's just been shit the whole time.
So we're just, again, waiting on more results
and more results. - Right.
And it's just-- it's just not--
- 20? - Yeah.
- Right. - Yeah. It is what it is.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
You know, when you have players
whose wives or girlfriends are expecting
and you've had children yourself,
you understand
that how that moment--
and how the--how life-changing it is going to be.
So with Jordan Davies'
situation, I feel for.
My escape was football.
I went to football
so I could escape what was happening at home.
And he's got one here.
Davies strikes...
and it's in for Wrexham!
Jordan Davies has done it!
We said the roof might come off!
There's a strike.
And that's an incredible finish.
Jordan, he's been exceptional
and has produced big moments in games.
It was a tough period for him
and you gotta put it in perspective
how well he did continue playing through that time.
It's Davies and it's in.
Come with me.
She's like, "I don't want no help."
This way, this way.
Through the tunnel.
Hooray.
Well done.
We try and do this, what do you say, every week?
- Every week, yeah.
Every week we near enough try and get out on a day off
- and do something. - Yeah.
- But it's usually always something different.
Shaky, shaky.
Oh, my days.
- Mai... - Izzy!
Look at that.
Whoa!
Tozer sends in the ball.
Hayden!
- Come on! - Let's go!
Hayden stands tall above everyone.
Yeah.
But you gotta use your--your--your--
May have been switched on
at the right moment, but they are in this case!
Ben Tozer,
Aaron Hayden!
It was 27 weeks,
so we went through
proper labor.
It was heartbreaking.
It was really difficult.
It's definitely true when people say, you know,
time's a healer.
'Cause
it does get easier.
But
in that moment,
it's really difficult
to go through.
But...
- A lot of people actually got in touch with me after,
saying they'd been through something similar
and connected us to the charity
working with bereaved families,
which is who we done the fundraising for.
The donations kept coming in. I was so surprised.
- We cannot thank everyone enough.
From people you don't even know
getting in touch to donating to Arthur's charity
that we can help many other families with,
it's--it's beautiful, really.
At the end of the day,
for Jord,
the fact
that people understood
that
he wasn't just this footballer,
he was actually
human.
Owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney
are doubling down on Davies,
offering the hometown hero a three-year extension.
Jordan Davies,
the local lad,
scoring goals for fun from midfield.
I mean, he's a commodity
that clubs in the National League
don't normally have at their disposal.
You know, and signing Jones with a new contract
was massively important for the club.
He was massively important on the field.
He was actually massively important
for off the field as well.
- We're really lucky
that he actually got his new contract,
'cause he's gonna be here for a few more years.
So it's actually--
it worked out amazingly,
'cause I think there's no better place
at the minute for him to be.