[insects trilling]
[Declan Swans' "Always Sunny in Wrexham"]
[coughs]
[drum beats]
SCOOT: Yeah, whatever.
I met up with Scoot there.
I think we went into a pub.
Not underground, no, nobody has ever.
[twangy guitar music]
[singing] He ordered a medium donner kebab
DECLAN SWANS [singing] Crumbling down
No one's invested so much
DECLAN SWANS: [singing] And Rob McElhenney
Less than a mile from the center of town
Our famous old stadium's crumbling down
[Buddy Holly's "Everyday"]
BUDDY: [singing] Every day, it's a-getting closer
Going faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will surely come my way
A-hey, a-hey-hey
Every day, it's a-getting faster
Everyone said, "Go ahead and ask her"
Love like yours will surely come my way
A-hey, a-hey-hey
Love like yours will surely come my way
McELHENNEY: Our first full season
as Wrexham owners has begun,
yet many people still don't know where Wales is.
That's right, Rob.
So we're here
with a little geography lesson.
Now, many people think that Wales is in England.
It is not, Ryan. [buzzer blares]
It's in a region known as, Rest of World.
[bell dings]
If you're planning on visiting Rest of World,
please consider visiting Wrexham.
It's a proud team honor to be in FIFA 22.
Even if it is in Rest of World.
Right? What the fuck is Rest of World?
It's not even a...
CREW MEMBER: Nailed it. - Yeah, it was good.
[giggles] CREW MEMBER: Okay.
[soft melancholic music]
I think us being successful this year is critical.
Now, does that mean
that we have to win the league by Christmas?
No, of course not.
This game against Chesterfield
is a big test for us.
They're a top team.
It's really hard to win in this league.
It's really hard to get out of this league.
But I think we have to be up there in the top, you know,
two or three teams.
I think anything below that would be a massive failure.
[indistinct chatter]
FAN: Miss lady. ANNETTE: Hello!
Hello! FAN: Good morning.
ANNETTE: Good morning.
How can I help? FAN: How are you?
ANNETTE: I'm fine, thank you.
FAN: Oh, right. Well, I've got my--
ANNETTE: Sorry to keep you waiting.
[indistinct chatter]
I went to my first game at 15
purely because I was taken by a lad from school.
Nobody in my family liked football at all,
and I think I went first time for spite, if I'm honest.
[laughs]
From that day, I was hooked.
[sentimental music]
So this is my seat, J131.
I sit with my friend Jen and Janet and Sheila.
We're known as the Dragons.
We're always here with our pie chips and gravy
before the game,
having somewhere to put them down
when expecting a goal.
[cheers and applause]
And I've spilt my tea
quite a number of times
down onto Clive, who sits down here.
My husband died ten years this year.
He just had a heart attack at his desk at work
and didn't come home.
My children were 14 and 12.
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
SAM: I'm a Wrexham superfan.
Every bit of my spare time, I'm playing FIFA
with a full Wrexham squad.
Massive fan of their club.
Every match that I can get to, I go to.
If it's at home, after the matches,
I normally go to meet the players at the back
where they come out.
I got Reckord's signing, Dibble's signing.
I also writ this sign saying,
"Paul Mullin, can I have your shirt?"
Didn't succeed, but oh, well.
[soft music]
I went to a Wrexham game when I was about eight.
That was my first ever game. That's perfect.
And I saw how the goalies were--
the feeling that I felt when they made a good save,
I wanted to be in that feeling.
When you score a goal, it was a good feeling,
but not as good as saving a ball.
Mm, if we keep on trying, yeah.
[Sam kisses]
[soft music]
LEE: How many? [players shouting indistinctly]
PLAYER: Stop lying! PLAYER: No, I promise you.
[player laughs] PLAYER: I promise ya.
I swear it down.
PLAYER: Oh.
Left!
PLAYER: Oh. [laughs]
He's got--
Right!
PLAYER: What you doing now, Rob?
[laughter]
PLAYER: I'm right.
LEE: Yes, Rob. Just drop in that goal
for us, please.
PHIL: As much as strikers will produce big moments,
it's important goalkeepers have got that ability.
Your goalkeeper's gotta be one you feel
can produce a match-winning save.
PLAYER: Yes, Lainton. Oh. LEE: Nice one, Rob.
It--it's tough. It can be tough, you know?
It--you know, I've had it before,
I've made a mistake and I don't sleep at night.
LEE: I know what they're going through.
I know what it's like to make a mistake
in the first two or three minutes of a game,
and then you've gotta play the next 83, 85 minutes,
you know, and-and put that mistake out of your head,
which is easier said than done.
[soft music]
[mallet clinking]
[dramatic music]
ANNOUNCER: Horrible collision.
ANNOUNCER: That doesn't look too good.
ANNOUNCER: No. ANNOUNCER: Lainton stays down.
And this could be bad news for Wrexham.
Rob Lainton is down and not moving.
[high-pitched ringing]
[staggered breathing]
[muffled chatter]
DECLAN SWANS: [singing] Invested so much as a penny
Bring on the Deadpool and Rob McElhenney
MARK: You all right?
WENDY: Right.
What's the next dates of the gigs?
Swan's Gate, I think.
Yeah. I've got two treatments to go.
I got tomorrow, and then hopefully I finish
on November the 3rd.
Erm, and fingers crossed that'll be it.
[both laugh]
- [Scoot clears throat] - [laughs]
[upbeat percussive music]
[players talking indistinctly]
Yeah. PERSON: Is it?
No.
PERSON: But if you...
PERSON: Press it. It's sore if you squeeze it.
Rhino-- is that what it's called?
Women go and get it and, like-- - Rhinoplasty.
Rhinoplasty. What did I call it?
Rhino-ostrophy? PERSON: [laughing] Rhino...
[lively music]
TICKET PERSON: Hello. Charlie, get your tickets.
Oh, yeah, here I come.
[cheers and applause]
[chanting]
[tense music]
PHIL: Make sure we win that battle tonight.
We're aggressive, we're front-foot,
we're positive, but we're in control.
Enjoy the night. Go and get these fans
out of their seats, fuckin' behind ya.
PLAYER: Come on! PLAYER: Come on, let's go!
PLAYER: Come on, let's fucking go.
CROWD: Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!
[whistle blows]
ANNOUNCER: Lainton launches it long, Mullin chasing.
He's beaten to it, though, and it's flicked back.
[cheers and applause]
You're early!
ANNOUNCER: Tozer does well in the end.
The ball hits Rowe's hand.
He's offsides! ANNOUNCER: Tshimanga
looks well offsides!
But the flanks is down. He's cutting in!
Tight angle, and Lainton saves well.
Ball's through the eight.
PERSON: Is he not offsides? PERSON: No.
All right, keep us going, son!
ANNOUNCER: I think Chesterfield are probably
winning the physical battle.
ANNOUNCER: Free kick.
ANNOUNCER: Chesterfield ready to make a run.
ANNOUNCER: Watch the two round the back.
Watch the two round the back in the block.
ANNOUNCER: Swept to the far post,
free header, and across to face a goal!
Chesterfield take the lead.
And there you go.
That's why you have to be alert.
MARK: Wrexham have not defended well.
Shock for Wrexham.
Chesterfield are playing well.
And as the game's progressing, increasingly so, we're not.
ANNOUNCER: Ooh, Oldaker makes a great tackle.
FAN: Hey!
BOTH: Fuck off!
FAN: It's our free kick! Ay!
It's our free kick!
[suspenseful music]
ANNOUNCER: He's lost it and he's turned by Kellermann
Who puts another nice-looking ball towards Tshimanga.
It's a penalty. It's gotta be, isn't it?
ANNOUNCER: Yeah. [whistle blows]
ANNOUNCER: And Wrexham are in trouble.
[tense music]
I think he's gonna give Tshimanga the go-ahead.
The Wrexham fans threaten to put him off.
[cheers and applause]
ANNOUNCER: Saved.
Big save by Lainton.
FAN: Fucking come on!
[dramatic music]
We played the whole of the 38 minutes in that half.
Our own half, that's where we played.
We're not gonna win the game, are we?
We're not gonna win the game.
We've had a fucking lifeline-- it was the penalty save.
We've been given a lifeline. Grasp it with both hands.
[dramatic music]
[indistinct chatter]
SCOOT: Before cancer, I've never been in hospital.
I've never given blood.
On the day of chemotherapy,
you get weighed,
they give you what's called a "flush" first
and then they--they actually give you the chemo,
so you're sitting there with your arm up.
Then you've got this, erm, big bag next to you
of the stuff that you're pumping into you.
You basically keep watching the bag and just waiting
for it to just go down and down and down and down,
and you're looking at your clock all the time.
I had this, like, painkiller into me--
going into me back to keep me--
so I was spaced out a lot of the time as well.
And yeah.
[emotional music]
Schoolboy memories.
You know, I was thinking about me dad.
We do a lot together.
I mean, she watches Wrexham as well.
Football was a big part of me thoughts, but...
[cheers and applause]
[soulful instrumental music]
CROWD: Wrexham!
ANNOUNCER: Tozer slings towards--and Lee head balls.
And it's in! [cheers and applause]
Come on! Come on!
ANNOUNCER: Out of nowhere, Wrexham gets the equalizer!
Free header, Mullin!
Last thing at home.
DOCTOR: Wow. [cheers and applause]
DOCTOR: Well done. NURSE: Yay!
SCOOT: Thank you very much.
REPORTER: Well, we're now nine games into the season
and still miles away in 12th place,
but after a poor first half, you have to be encouraged
by how Wrexham responded in that second half
against a true rival for promotion.
Promising signs, and it's the first trial
we seem to have emerged from looking stronger.
Hopefully Phil can keep this side going like this
and we can see continued improvement now.
[sentimental music]
- Eh? - Lainton.
I'm not too sure 'cause I've been
in the physio room, so he--
he won't be too long.
Hop in.
Yeah, disappointed when they awarded the penalty.
Uh, but Rob's a good goalkeeper
and, um, you know, it was a big moment for us.
Let's enjoy the day.
Not just make the most of it, you know.
What can we achieve today for the team?
Because people remember being at games with their kids
and watching, you know, great moments,
and they live-- live in their memories as much
as the people that are actually involved in them,
out on the pitch or on the touchline.
Let's try and string a couple of wins together
and we'll be back up there.
ALL: Iechyd da.
ANNETTE: Football for me is far more
than the actual game of football.
It's being here with your football family.
It's--it's the whole match day experience.
Go, baby, go.
BOTH: Ooh.
McELHENNEY: I don't remember any specific game.
I just remember the bonding experience
between you and the people who have been following
this adventure.
BOTH: Goal! - Goal, goal, goal, goal.
Goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal,
SAM: Yeah. LAINTON: Well done, lad.
SAM: Cheers. LAINTON: See you later.
CODY: Thank you. SAM: Good game. See ya.
See ya next week.
[child giggles, seagull cries]