Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!
The noise is terrific
here at the Racecourse as Wrexham look to start off
a new era at the club.
The referee gives the go ahead.
And away Wrexham go.
Listen to that.
Jones with a great ball.
Mullin round the back of the defense.
Hyde's in the middle.
Feeds him in
and puts it behind him.
What a chance that was.
And I gotta say, I'd normally bet my house on Mullin
making the most of that.
That's two shots in the first 80 seconds.
Cross comes in from Davies now.
Looking again for Mullin, who brings it down easily.
Left-footed shot is blocked.
It'll spin to Young!
And Young puts it over! Oh!
We almost made the goal.
Notts County's defense is hanging on
for dear life.
Shoot! Get it in, Hydey!
And it's a great ball dinked in the box.
Mullin across the face!
Oh, what a brilliant piece of defending.
Mullin drove it in.
Hyde looked to have an open-goal tap-in.
Wrexham battering away at Notts County.
The breakthrough surely will come.
Quality first half.
I've never seen so much adrenaline
pumping through them nil-nil in the National League.
Get in the space, eh!
Get in the space, would ya?
Controlled on the edge of the area
by French! He gives that away.
Now Wrexham are left vulnerable here.
That was a poor pass.
Swinging in the cross of the far post.
It's a good cross.
Wooton heads it.
And it's in!
Notts County score.
Massively against the run-up play,
but what a cross.
You can hear the reaction
from the Wrexham fans. It was a great noise there.
Wow.
Right. Well done.
You've done great, boys. You've done great.
Don't let the goal lift them and knock us.
Just keep playing the way you've been fucking playing.
Keep putting the ball in the box.
If it's not on, we come out and we move it
really quickly, keep switching the play.
Performance. Come on then, let's go!
Come on! - Worry about performance.
What separates teams from winning and losing,
drawing and winning is moments of quality.
And in any team, you're only as good as your front players.
Mullin cuts inside, edging him off,
sweeps a great ball.
Oh, what an amazing piece of defending by Taylor.
When you sign a player like Paul--
you know, he's one of those players--
he can produce moments of--
of real quality in games of football.
He's got a bit of magic
and goals win games.
Hyde does well on the sly to work it wide.
French feeds it inside.
A wicked cross, and it's in!
Yes! Mullin gets a goal in!
And Mullin has headed it home!
Mullin gets his first goal of the season
at the Racecourse.
Gracefully done!
Sensational cross.
Keeper Kean to bounce it.
Mullin just got there ahead of him.
Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!
Listen to this. Wow.
Wrexham, Wrexham!
Well, we've had our homecoming,
and it was spectacular.
If we're gonna do that to the strong teams this season,
the rest of the division's got a problem on its hands.
Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!
Fuckin' wind.
We redid the pitch in the summer.
And basically, the short and long is,
the pitch has failed.
It's just too--it's too dry, innit?
The rest of the season's gonna be a big challenge
for me personally and I'm going to cry.
So I've got some bad news.
We re-laid our pitch this summer,
um, at no small expense.
And it looks great,
but there's something wrong with it.
And, um, we-- - It's made of burlap.
- We had--basically yes.
The roots of the grass are very short,
so when--when someone steps into it and the--the top of it
sticks to the bottom of the boot,
when they pull up,
the whole top layer of grass comes off with it.
So we got an independent expert on this stuff to come out.
He said-- - Is this the kind of thing
you th--you thought you'd be talking about
or thinking about? - I'm actually fucking riveted
because... - I am, too, but--
I can't wait to find out what happens.
What we've been told by this--
this independent expert is he said,
"You need to drown this pitch.
"You need to overwater it the whole time.
That will help the pitch hold together."
As we speak, Ewen is out there with a hose.
Is there a more likelihood that someone could be injured?
Yes.
- Jesus fuck. - Now the overwatering
is what reduces that possibility.
I'm gonna hit my head as hard as I can
against this right now.
And it's gonna cost us a lot of money.
How much-- how much money have we spent
on the first round of it?
I can look it up. - Approximately?
Don't look it up.
It's not gonna help us. Probably about
£100,000. - Fuck.
And it'll probably cost us that again
if not more to relay the pitch.
Yeah, it's...
it's--it sucks.
- Mm.
That's pretty bad.
So running a football club is expensive.
Issues like we're having with the pitch
and the expenditure we had to do over the summer
to improve some of the concourse area
and things like that, those have to be paid for
and, you know, a lot of National League clubs
are essentially relying on the tickets they sell
and very small amounts of sponsorship
from local businesses.
Well, we're looking for new ways
to bring fresh eyeballs onto what we're doing
and increasing our revenue streams.
And we'll take whatever we can get.
So much of the endeavor
is based on growing the exposure of the club.
And I knew that having somebody like Ryan
was gonna be really important because of social media.
Because between the two of us,
we have something like 45 million Instagram followers
and 20 million, uh, Twitter followers,
so we could directly engage with them.
So I thought we were good-- good partners in that way.
Uh, it's close. Yeah, I've--
This is where you're gonna put up a graphic
that shows the actual numbers.
Aren't you? Yeah. No.
I would never do that to you.
This is our new away shirt for next season.
It's Philadelphia Eagles green.
You ready?
Hey, guys.
We've gone from AEC Engineering
to Expedia. I've got
with me Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
You feel like you know what you're doing?
Absolutely not.
From Ifor Williams Trailers to TikTok.
So there it is, eh?
TikTok because of--of--of obviously
Wrexham football club.
I'll give it a go.
Well, I can't work it.
- ♪ Tick tock, ya don't stop - Stop.
- Like, casually just--
just push me and I'm gonna dive like--like, yeah.
Should I flop around or is better to just go...
- Oh, yeah, no, like-- - Just to go limp?
No, 'cause they--they all--
- Yeah, they, like, go-- - They're like, "Oh, God."
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
We have to remember
that we're Wrexham in the National League,
but we've also got to utilize that celebrity asset
to maximize the potential for the club.
We opened the online shop and it's gone up
to about 50 grand compared to this time last year,
where we was about 3 grand.
So what do you do now?
Oh, Wrexham AFC.
The more we maximize their celebrity status,
the more income can be generated.
That puts more money into the club,
which means we can do more
to deliver that community benefit,
which was all part of the mission statement.
Aah!
Aah! [laughs] You fuck!
This grass is like cashmere.
Is this real?
You are a middle-aged--
And then some people...
How much is it?
Can you fuck off?
There is a bullet in there somewhere.
Just guessing where it's gonna be.
Yeah.
Oh, you got it there?
Yeah. Yeah, facts.
Money, money, money!
Yeah.
I don't even know.
We--no one knows, but...
Here we go.
Albs, do you want some juice?
Come on.
Do you want some?
Where's Daddy gone? - Blah, blah.
I'm gonna get ya.
Can you reach?
There it is!
Yay! - Good boy.
You want to go and dig?
Dig in the mud so Daddy clean it.
You diggin'? Other way.
Turn it over. That's it.
Daddy help.
Oh, easy.
Yeah. - And then you go...
Do you know what I mean? That's--
SHAUN- Our football season comprises 44 games.
You get three points for a win,
one point for a draw,
and obviously, zero points for a loss.
The team that has most points
at the end of the season is the champion club
and are promoted to the EFL.
We're going into this season to get promoted.
That is our goal.
That is our job.
The good news is that we have the support
of the town.
Wrexham! These fans feel like
after 15 dark years, the sun's finally come out
to shine again.
I wanna get there soon because--
before anything's really happened
because everyone likes us still.
- I know.
Like, if somebody... - I know.
If this shit goes south all of a sudden--
Well, it's gonna go south at some point.
- Of course. - Like, already you see--
Hopefully, it's in 25 years
and they're in the Premier League.
We are Wrexham, super Wrexham.
We're gonna win the league.
His foot--
he's got movement in the box.
Good ball, and oh, it's too easy for Dalby.
Wrexham's gotta watch. Poor defending, that.
Phil Parkinson will be fumin'.
Well, Wrexham got their line wrong again here.
Murphy, he's goal side, he's on side, and he scores!
Oh, Wrexham. Two down.
And Wrexham have clawed their way back somehow,
but it's only one point against the side
we should be beating.
We're seventh in the table now.
Hello, Mr. Co-chairman.
Hi, Ryan.
Some game, huh?
Gettin' real sick of these draws.
Yeah, yeah, it's hard to get, um--
it's hard to get excited about a draw.
I'm finding football to be very weird.
Some draws are considered wins,
some are considered losses.
This is a loss, I think.
Yeah, we, uh--
I can't wait to get over there.
It's so weird not--
It's so weird not actually being there.
Yeah, it'd be nice to see 'em win, though.
Yeah.
Yep.
This is kinda feeling like the draw of phone calls.
Hanging up now. See ya Tuesday.
Love you!
It's Wrexham against Grimsby,
a fissure that goes back to 1922
between two storied clubs
who really shouldn't be down in the fifth division.
Good ball by Young! Jake Hyde scores!
Hyde puts Wrexham ahead early on!
The perfect start.
Young did ever so well.
The owners and the money you're spending,
we're gonna have a target on our back
and that's how it's gonna be.
Ball in. Oh, it's a great finish.
Taylor puts Grimsby level.
Wrexham have only been in the lead for four minutes.
And that can be relatively daunting going to away games,
knowing that you're gonna get battered for 90 minutes.
Here comes the corner.
Luke Waterfall, he's unmarked! And he scored!
The ex-Wrexham defender... - Oh, fucking hell.
Has put Grimsby ahead.
Oh, it's too easy, too easy.
Wright taps it in.
Wrexham have collapsed here.
That's three points that we won't know
until the end of the season just what impact it will have.
Can't win the league in the first eight games,
but you can lose your chance to win it.
If the team is really struggling to click...
Ha, welcome to Wrexham, boys.
You could have the best 11 players on the pitch...
I do feel a bit of pressure from the fans
as if it's my fault when we don't win.
The next nights are horrible. You're sitting there thinking
what could you have done?
It's not working. It's not balanced.
It's up to Parkinson to find a way
to make these two work or change it.
Fans pay their money and they wanna see results.
Make no bones about it, if Ryan and Rob are not doing
what Wrexham fans perceive to be in the best interests
of Wrexham Football Club,
there will be a loud voice that lets 'em know
it's--it won't be accepted because we've been trodden on
too many times.
Paul Mullin's there in the area, unmarked.
And Paul Mullin has set Wrexham
one-nil up here at Edgeley Park!
Fans are on the pitch
and that man has done it again!
Paul Mullin has set Wrexham one-nil up here
in the opening stages!
If I had to sum football up,
it's--it's like a roller coaster.
It's up and down.
Rooney swings it into the area.
Madden gets there, and it's in for Stockport!
Paddy Madden gets the goal as Stockport level.
Great cross from Whitfield.
Alex Reid's header across goal.
Paddy Madden near the back post
and Croasdale's there, blocked.
And it's gone in for Stockport.
Stockport have scored.
And that is back-to-back defeat on the road.
Fantastic traveling support from Wrexham,
and they will be disappointed
to see their side go down here.
Wrexham fall all the way into 12th place
and they're heading decidedly in the wrong direction.
Watching the biggest load of crap
I've seen in a long time.
No, it was a really disappointing night from us.
Abject, disgraceful, embarrassing.
9 points from a possible 18.
Questions will be asked about everything and rightly so.
I've only been owner of a football club
for a short time.
But so far,
I've found it to be very time-consuming,
emotionally exhausting,
financially idiotic,
and utterly addictive.
I'm used to being able to go into a writers' room
and come out at the end of it
knowing what's going to happen.
And I don't know what's gonna happen here.
At least the pitch looks nice.
Indeed it does.
Goodnight, Ryan.
Goodnight, Rob.
Someone should probably--
yep, there you go.