Welcome to Wrexham 1x14

1. Uh, yeah, I'm filming an audition

2. for a new television program, um,

3. called Obi-Wan Kenobi.

4. It's a Star Wars thing, so it's pretty cool.

5. Making TV.

6. None of it's glamourous.

7. Oh, gosh. I do look fat.

8. That can't be helped.

9. I think I need to, you know, reposition this

10. slightly over here.

11. All right, come on then.

12. Let's give it the old college try.

13. Checking it.

14. Checking it out.

15. What was the direction they gave you for the shot?

16. The direction they gave me was to look

17. like you are walking

18. in some solemn military ceremony type thing.

19. So I'm trying to sort of march to a certain extent.

20. I mean, it looks stupid now but imagine it in a Star War.

21. It'll be unbelievably cool.

22. All right.

23. It's in the can.

24. That's what they say on the movies.

25. Every day, it's a-getting closer

26. Going faster than a roller coaster

27. Love like yours will surely come my way

28. A-hey, a-hey-hey

29. Every day, it's a-getting faster

30. Everyone said, "Go ahead and ask her"

31. Love like yours will surely come my way

32. A-hey, a-hey-hey

33. Love like yours will surely come my way

34. How are you? - I'm fine.

35. Yeah.

36. Hey, does anyone have a glasses cleaner?

37. The goal post? Yeah.

38. We got a surprise visit by Ryan,

39. who's actually filming some commercial work.

40. And obviously, you know, to try and continue

41. to build the profile of the club,

42. you know, wanted to film it here.

43. So he's actually in situ at this moment in time.

44. Yeah.

45. I don't know what the advert's about.

46. It's a little bit extra than our normal job, isn't it,

47. to do, to sort of, um, facilitate that,

48. but it comes as part of having this new world

49. with these new owners really.

50. I'm addicted to building things and growing things.

51. Like, strategically thinking

52. about how we can move the ball forward.

53. I'll lie awake at night for hours just thinking about

54. how we can better center this club on the world stage

55. and grow the football club into something that just, like,

56. utterly sustains itself.

57. That's the sort of dream that I have for Wrexham.

58. Hi, gents. How's it going, everyone?

59. You guys all right? Yeah, you?

60. This will be painless. I promise.

61. You won't feel a thing.

62. How's it going, everyone? You guys all right?

63. Yeah, okay. Mullin.

64. Fucking collecting red cards like a fucking—all right.

65. I might move Mullin

66. to over here somewhere, if that's okay.

67. Yeah, yeah.

68. 'Cause I kinda want a sharp, like—

69. we're gonna do a little something where, you know,

70. they all sort of mutter, "Yeah, yeah, yeah.

71. We get it," and then somebody—

72. I hear somebody say, "Idiot," or something.

73. I think it'll be Mullin.

74. Angus, you're gonna give me the—

75. the "We play in the winter."

76. And then who can give me something

77. about, um, "They play in the winter

78. in the upper leagues too?"

79. Kwame. You wanna do it, Kwame?

80. - That's Kwame. - Big Chris'll do it.

81. You got it? Great. Great.

82. Attaboy.

83. Wow. It is cold out there.

84. Glad we don't play in the winter.

85. Ryan...

86. Dear God, we have gotta get out of this league.

87. Not so easy, is it, motherfucker?

88. No. Yeah.

89. I was gonna point towards Stanwick.

90. Right, no. Don't get fancy with it.

91. Don't get fancy with it, rookie.

92. Fucking hell, lads.

93. Idiot. Mullin!

94. I will shove a red card so far up your ass,

95. people will think it's your tongue.

96. Wanker.

97. Mullin!

98. I will shove a red card so far up your ass,

99. we'll need a team of doctors to find my hand.

100. Three, two, one, action.

101. - Idiot. - Mullin!

102. I will shove a red card so far up your ass,

103. people will thinks it's your tongue.

104. Now...

105. Let's talk nighttime skin care routines.

106. 1Password.

107. Simplest, smartest, securi-er-est.

108. Thanks, guys.

109. Great work. Great work.

110. Just because last time we had— when the TikTokers were in,

111. it kinda took the focus away from the game a little bit.

112. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

113. Every game's an important game.

114. So you want the lads to be focused

115. and not kind of messing about with—

116. with doing other things.

117. But it is what it is.

118. Okay, we're gonna stop down for a second

119. and do some Last Dance shit.

120. Because I want you to totally understand

121. what's happening in this episode.

122. And much like Michael Jordan, I've got opinions.

123. I don't know if you picked up on this,

124. but just a few moments ago in the episode,

125. Kevin, our head physio,

126. referred to Ryan's visit as a fucking disgrace.

127. Kevin, I agree with you.

128. And it's not because I don't appreciate what Ryan is doing.

129. It is a very important part of the project.

130. He is growing the exposure of the club.

131. None of those reasons are the reasons

132. why I think it is a disgrace.

133. I think it's a fucking disgrace because he went without me.

134. He went to Wales without me.

135. And he seems to be having the time of his life.

136. So let me give you an example

137. of the kinda stuff that I'm doing.

138. Tell me a little bit about what you know

139. about this evening, Rob.

140. What you're doing here.

141. I am here to celebrate,

142. uh, with members of the Welsh government

143. and, uh, prominent Welsh people

144. and, um, some other people who live in the area

145. and members of the media, Saint David's Day.

146. I'm working.

147. I'm back here in the United States

148. forging relationships with the Welsh government.

149. Sounds like now you've embraced the fact

150. that all of Wales see you as an honorary Welsh

151. and ambassador for Wales as well.

152. With great honor and respect, um, accept that responsibility.

153. The greatest asset we have is our people,

154. including our newest member, Rob,

155. who we are just delighted to claim as our own.

156. I'm trying to open up lines of communication

157. and mutual respect between us and an entire nation.

158. I'm learning Welsh, for God's sakes.

159. This is my teacher, Gwyneth.

160. She is the absolute best. Hi, Gwyneth.

161. I-I don't know, I thought it was important

162. to maybe get a better understanding

163. of-of the country and the people.

164. But apparently, they don't seem to mind,

165. 'cause everywhere he goes, everybody just loves him.

166. Everybody—look at all the smiles and the—and the hugs.

167. Look—look at the way Mullin's looking at him.

168. For Christ's sake. Look.

169. Let's just go to a commercial. Let's just go to a commercial.

170. But I'm sure it's gonna be one of his.

171. Recently, and for no reason at all—

172. Oh, oh, it is.

173. It is one of his.

174. What a big surprise.

175. And now I'm doing a commercial for him.

176. I'm in a commercial for Mint Mobile.

177. And I'm not affiliated with this company at all.

178. They're not paying me to do this.

179. I don't own a piece of the— of the company,

180. but Ryan assured me that it's actually good for me

181. 'cause it's great exposure.

182. And the most up thing is that he's right.

183. Lowering prices on every plan to just $15 a month.

184. And I will stay the hell out of the legal department.

185. is a competition that's played between clubs

186. from the National League where we play and below.

187. So over the course of football season,

188. Wrexham play in three competitions.

189. You got the League— that's the main one

190. that people really care about.

191. You've got the FA Cup.

192. That's probably the second most, uh, exciting one.

193. Uh, and you got the FA Trophy.

194. Now, we all know what the League is.

195. I don't need to go into that.

196. The FA Trophy and the FA Cup are similar.

197. They're cup competitions.

198. They're knockout competitions.

199. Maybe you've seen— maybe you've seen Wimbledon.

200. Huh? Yeah? And the tennis?

201. All sorts of people enter.

202. They get whittled down until there's only one team left.

203. Now, this happens concurrently with the League.

204. Um, look, it's complicated.

205. I understand you're probably quite confused.

206. But we've been doing it for hundreds of years.

207. So just chill out. It'll be fine.

208. And here we go, everybody.

209. A brief departure

210. from Wrexham's promotion campaign in the League.

211. Today, Wrexham and Stockport will face off

212. in the FA Trophy semi-final.

213. Wrexham is also currently in second place

214. in League play behind Stockport

215. in the fight for promotion.

216. But here in this cup competition,

217. a win today would send the Red Dragons

218. to the FA Trophy final

219. at famous Wembley Stadium.

220. Once again, there is a burden of proof

221. on goalkeeper Christian Dibble,

222. who is still struggling to meet the challenge

223. of filling in for the injured Rob Lainton.

224. There the boys. That's incredible.

225. There they go.

226. That's Tozer right there. He's got the ball.

227. He's kicking it back and forth

228. Ollie Palmer. Ollie Palmer right there.

229. He's a beast.

230. Receiving the ball. And that's Dibble.

231. A great keeper. Yeah?

232. And got a great heart.

233. Mr. Lainton. - Hi.

234. How are you, buddy. - Not too bad. Yourself?

235. I'm all right.

236. How does it feel?

237. Uh-huh.

238. Has the surgery been done already?

239. Feels good?

240. I mean, like, the doctor feels good?

241. Oh, it broke my heart.

242. No, no.

243. Oh, yeah. It did.

244. We were like, "No, no, no, no, no."

245. Can I introduce you to my brother?

246. - Cool, sure. - He's here. My brother Terry.

247. Terry. Hey.

248. It's Rob Lainton. He's our goal—

249. I won't try to shake that hand.

250. He's the goalkeeper. He's playing today, actually,

251. which is gonna be, yeah, really interesting.

252. Just put mitts on. Yeah. Absolutely.

253. It's my very first game being here

254. other than trying to watch clips from YouTube.

255. Come on! Let's fucking go!

256. Oh, I wish you were out there today, Rob.

257. Yeah.

258. Reynolds, lad! Oh!

259. Ugh. Oh, my God.

260. I'd like to have my name sung to the tune of "Guantanamera"

261. by 10,000 people.

262. That sounds pretty cool.

263. But, you know— he didn't even wanna do this.

264. This whole thing was my idea.

265. I should've bought a football team in New York.

266. Even when he did, he was like, "Eh, I'm not really sure

267. if I, like, am that into it."

268. Insane decision I made a year and half ago.

269. Just totally fucking insane.

270. Now he's, like, going without me.

271. He's going without me.

272. In case you're wondering, this flight was booked

273. using Expedia.com,

274. proud sponsor of Wrexham AFC.

275. Oh, good, and now he looks like a hero

276. in front of the sponsors. I could do it too.

277. Expedia. Expedia. Use Expedia.

278. Expedia.com. Expedia. Expedia. Use Expedia.

279. I love Expedia.

280. Welcome back, everybody, to the second half

281. of the FA Trophy semi-final between Wrexham

282. and Stockport County.

283. Stockport getting a bit more lively.

284. Dribbles past one, Dribbles past two.

285. Ball finds its way to Connor Jennings.

286. And what a save for Christian Dibble again.

287. Not once but twice this game, he's come up with a huge save.

288. Massive chance for Stockport.

289. Johnson.

290. Dibble with a strong lunge there.

291. Wrexham going for Wembley!

292. What a noise on the racecourse!

293. There's the final whistle.

294. Wrexham are going to Wembley for an FA Trophy final.

295. And it's that man once again.

296. Super Paul Mullin is the hero,

297. netting two stunning goals in injury time.

298. An outstanding performance by Dibble.

299. And some late fireworks by Mullin

300. punch Wrexham's ticket to Wembley.

301. Goodness me, Wrexham's recent winning streak

302. has delivered an FA Trophy final,

303. and they're proven beyond a shadow of a doubt today

304. that they can not only compete with the Stockport Counties

305. of this world, but beat them.

306. Automatic promotion out the League.

307. Silverware and the FA Trophy final is in sight.

308. And I ask you, who can possibly stop us now?

309. That's—I mean, that's—

310. I was so into this endeavor

311. as just, like a zoomed-out macro project

312. that involved a club, a business,

313. which is also the club, and a community

314. and how those kind of intersect.

315. Ugh, here it comes.

316. I didn't expect to take the red pill,

317. with respect to Wrexham, and really kind of go down

318. that rabbit hole with them

319. and start to understand the kind of—

320. the actual fabric and DNA of their passion

321. and love for this club.

322. It sort of transcends wins and losses.

323. Oh, look, he's everybody's best friend now.

324. Kissing babies. Hugging everybody. Why not?

325. Oh, now he's hugging Ollie. Ollie's not wearing a shirt.

326. That's cool. And he's just—yeah, hug him.

327. Hug—hug everybody.

328. He doesn't hug Blake this much.

329. Oh, now he's—yep. Yeah.

330. Hug Jordan again.

331. Yeah, hug Paul again.

332. Hug Ollie again. That's—that's two.

333. All right, yeah, just— oh, and now he's—

334. now he's hugging Ollie again.

335. That's a third— that's three times.

336. That's three times he's hugged Ollie with no shirt on.

337. I mean—Kevin?

338. Kevin was just bitching about—this is insane!

339. Kevin, don't hug him.

340. Kevin. Kevin.

341. I don't think I ever really understood football.

342. But that Stockport match, I feel it in my bones.

343. Okay. Okay. All right. Fine, fine.

344. So I'm, of course, happy that we beat Stockport,

345. and yes, I've been complaining this whole episode,

346. but I am happy for Ryan

347. that he got to see this incredible win.

348. And look how happy he is.

349. I mean, how can I be upset with that?

350. After all, who can stay mad at this guy?

351. He's just the best. And I really do love him.

352. That was nice.

353. I love you too, Rob.

354. Wait, what? You can hear me?

355. Oh, no, yes. I heard everything.

356. How is that possible?

357. Well, this is the Hollywood episode, Rob.

358. Anything's possible.

359. Oh.

360. Okay. Uh, well, bye, I guess.

361. I miss you, buddy.

362. I miss you too, but I'm gonna see you soon

363. at Wembley.

364. Here they come

365. Our mighty champions

366. Raise your voices to the anthem

367. Yeah, see you at Wembley.

368. I can't wait.

369. Oh, it's gonna be amazing.

370. Up the town.

371. See the Reds

372. Who fight together

373. Speak their names with pride forever

374. Marching like a mighty army

375. Wrexham is the name

376. Fearless in devotion, hey, hey

377. Rising to promotion, hey, hey

378. To the ranks of mighty heroes

379. Fighting foes in every land, hey, hey, hey

380. History only tells the story