From the Archive: Wrexham; The Gang Gets a New Member

From this week on Monday and Tuesday nights, paid subscribers will get a selection from my archive which I feel remains pertient today. This evening, when McIlhenny & Reynolds arrived at Wrexham.

If there’s one thing that can be said for certain about the attempted buyout of Wrexham, it’s that they weren’t kidding when they told the world they were building it up. The Wrexham Supporters Trust had been trailing their release of the identities of the proposed buyers for a little while, and once the vote was taken their identity could be revealed.

Far from being one of the normal carousel of football club owners that we get in this country, of course, it turned out to be somebody quite unexpected. Actor, writer, film producer and occasional entrepreneur, Ryan Reynolds and actor, director, producer, screenwriter and creator of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rob McElhenney.