Welcome to Wrexham 1x15

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3. Hi, Rob. How are you doing, mate?

4. You okay? - Very good. Yourself?

5. Not bad, not bad.

6. The games that happened with—with—

7. you know, later on and that run we've been on...

8. Oh, the run. Yeah. Absolutely.

9. Is absolutely phenomenal.

10. Everywhere I go now, people just talk about,

11. "Oh, where you from?" "Wrexham."Oh."

12. - Yeah. - "Rob and Ryan got

13. the football club— bought the football club up."

14. October, November, December time,

15. we probably weren't particularly happy

16. with how we were doing,

17. but this run that we've gone on now,

18. everything's— everything's looking...

19. great. Yeah.

20. Suck balls. We're gonna lose.

21. I'm telling you, on Sunday,

22. they're gonna lose that game in hand.

23. And Wrexham's gonna go boom.

24. 'Cause there's been so many

25. twists and turns this season.

26. I just think there's got to be another one.

27. Every day

28. It's a-getting closer

29. Going faster than a roller coaster

30. Love like yours will surely come my way

31. A-hey, a-hey-hey

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

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

34. Love like yours will surely come my way

35. A-hey, a-hey-hey

36. Love like yours will surely come my way

37. 21/2 minutes, one touch.

38. See if we can get it going.

39. Got to play with some fucking energy tomorrow.

40. Wrexham are in the playoffs, come what may.

41. Stockport currently sit

42. at the top of the table by 3 points.

43. They've got two games left after they play us.

44. We've only got one game left after we play them,

45. so we can add a maximum of 6 points.

46. They can add a maximum of 9 points.

47. If we beat them and they drop points

48. in their last two games,

49. we've got an opportunity

50. to push them right to the wire.

51. No one's expecting us to do it,

52. so that, in some ways, makes it a bit easier, I think.

53. The underdog. Back to being the underdogs.

54. How about that? Yeah.

55. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to it.

56. This is what—you couldn't ask for a better last home game

57. of the season, in a way.

58. If we don't win the league, I'll miss my stag do.

59. And if we get into the playoff final,

60. I could miss my wedding.

61. That's if we don't get first spot,

62. which I'm very confident we will.

63. If you can't get excited about a game like this,

64. I don't know—what are you doing in football?

65. Hi. This is not good content.

66. Today, obviously, we play Stockport at home,

67. which a much-anticipated game, a huge game for us.

68. Very hands-on, especially at the moment,

69. 'cause obviously, we're selling merchandise

70. for Wembley as well.

71. I do all tickets and scanners,

72. setting them all up, making sure they work.

73. Big game, complete sellout.

74. Stockport could potentially win the league here,

75. which we're not going to allow to happen.

76. Excited, anxious, nervous.

77. I couldn't sleep last night, bouncing around all morning.

78. We have to win.

79. It almost feels like a bit of a Hollywood

80. potential ending to it all.

81. We need to get this place today filled with Wrexham fans

82. as quick as we can so no away fans try and get in.

83. Halftime, get yourself some dinner.

84. I don't want to see anybody sitting round.

85. After ten minutes, I want to see—

86. no drinking, please.

87. You shouldn't be drinking at halftime.

88. Probably gonna have 20, 30, 40 people staying in.

89. So you're gonna remain steady.

90. So one or two of you focus on the glasses.

91. One or two focus on serving.

92. And the rest of you get the fridges filled,

93. toilets bleached and cleaned,

94. and then stock back up, yeah? Right.

95. Hi, lads.

96. Come on, Wrexham.

97. Don't fuck it up.

98. Here we go, we're off to the Stockport game.

99. No mercy.

100. Today's match, it is a significant one.

101. We expect Wrexham Town Centre to be really busy as well.

102. Today we've had a really significant

103. policing operation around it.

104. It's what we consider a high-risk football match.

105. So we have put a lot of resource in—in Wrexham today.

106. There's gonna be more supporters, more fans.

107. Gonna need probably a bigger police presence,

108. bigger crowds arriving in a town

109. like Wrexham as well.

110. I don't predict it's gonna be

111. a quiet Sunday afternoon, no.

112. We're flying, providing an aerial view

113. of everything that's happening on the ground,

114. looking at the movement of crowds

115. and the movement of police resources.

116. They're expecting the away fans to arrive

117. at Wrexham General Station.

118. Mind the gap, please.

119. The Wrexham fans have pushed on.

120. - Who wants a beer? - Yay!

121. Rob and Ryan, this is a message for you

122. from the best beard in Wales

123. to the best football club in Wales:

124. come on the town!

125. Let's go!

126. This is Wrexham, this.

127. Physicality, intensity, sprint into the ball,

128. and make them play backwards.

129. Getting on top of them all over the fucking pitch.

130. Don't give them a fucking inch.

131. Desire to stop crosses.

132. Defend crosses if they come in.

133. A real tenacity to stop crosses.

134. Can we exploit the space down the sides

135. of the center backs with quality?

136. Can we get control of the game with the ball and be patient?

137. We know how we've got to play.

138. Let's go and implement it.

139. The noise, and here come the teams,

140. Wrexham and Stockport County.

141. Wrexham in the red shirts, white shorts;

142. Stockport, white shirts, black shorts.

143. It's certainly two teams

144. that wish to be in league one

145. than rather be in the conference.

146. Well, I got to say,

147. I think both these teams

148. are on a very definite upward trajectory.

149. And I'm fully feeling this rivalry

150. will go on for a while.

151. Listen to that noise, guys.

152. Wow. Wow.

153. Just wow.

154. Fasten your seat belts, everyone.

155. So here we go.

156. You know, we actually started—

157. in the first 15, 20 minutes, made mistakes.

158. But we very quickly got into our stride in that game

159. and after that, and I thought we just overpowered them

160. in—in all areas of—of the pitch.

161. He changes angle, finds Hosannah.

162. Hosannah burns past his man

163. from base, tearing down the flag.

164. Hippolyte goes to ground to put it out for a throw in.

165. Here comes Tozer, hurling it in under the bar.

166. Yes!

167. Ollie Palmer glancing it home.

168. And Wrexham take the lead

169. in this massive, massive match.

170. All the bits of detail we set out sort of

171. came to fruition in that game.

172. Holds off one man.

173. Croasdale dispossesses, finds Davies.

174. Go on!

175. One above with the keeper.

176. Wrexham, a super goal.

177. Love it!

178. Drills it!

179. Oh, baby, you got me

180. Mull scored a really good goal.

181. And Ollie Palmer was immense.

182. Davies and Young go for the free kick.

183. Davies floats a beauty in.

184. It's three!

185. Oh, my goodness me.

186. So we could be near the final whistle here

187. as he knocks it long.

188. Just listen to that.

189. Come on!

190. Just listen to that.

191. Yes.

192. Oh, no, she gave it all away

193. All the best today

194. After today, we're top of the league.

195. Who'd have thought we'd be saying that?

196. We're just— we're top of the league.

197. Although I was nervous,

198. every single one of them stepped up today.

199. You could see how much they wanted it.

200. It was just fantastic to hear the Racecourse

201. back to how it used to be,

202. you know, bouncing, absolutely bouncing.

203. Told you all Wrexham were gonna win

204. this fucking league, didn't I?

205. And we're winning the fucking cup.

206. It's a shame Rob and Ryan couldn't be here today,

207. because these are the sort of days

208. that they invested in the club to be able to see.

209. Well, well, well. Well, well, well.

210. We are top of the league.

211. There's a lot of very happy people here in North Wales.

212. It's a great day here.

213. We've got, like, lots of the players' kids

214. around the pitch having a kick-around.

215. It's just the perfect end to the season here.

216. See you guys.

217. The mood in the locker room

218. has got to be incredibly positive.

219. Yeah. Yeah. Correct? Yes.

220. We won it. The boys were good.

221. Hi, Rob. Yeah.

222. Enjoy that.

223. You've done everything you said you were gonna do

224. and delivered on every promise.

225. So let's go just win this fucking league.

226. Simple as that. Thanks, Rob.

227. - Yeah. - Appreciate that.

228. These lads have been phenomenal all season,

229. so I don't know.

230. I've just got a feeling in my bones

231. that it's just all gearing up our way.

232. We could still do this. We could still win the league.

233. Oh, parky, do you know what he's worth

234. Ollie Palmer is the best on Earth

235. A lucky striker is just what we need

236. Ollie Palmer's the best on Earth.

237. After being defeated at Wrexham,

238. Stockport County have won their second-to-last game

239. and moved back into first place.

240. In order to earn automatic promotion,

241. Wrexham must win their final game of the season

242. and Stockport must lose theirs.

243. Any other result consigns Wrexham

244. to the dreaded playoffs.

245. Our biggest game for a while, isn't it?

246. Goodness me.

247. Well, obviously, we've got to go to Dagenham and win

248. and hope that Stockport lose at home to Halifax.

249. So I think it's a big ask,

250. but I think, uh— I think we can do it.

251. I think we've got to be positive.

252. And, uh, I think we'll be celebrating

253. with, um, possibly a barbecue.

254. Wrexham supporters

255. have always been behind the team.

256. Uh, but we never quite made it

257. and never really felt like we were gonna get motion.

258. But this time is different.

259. How far we've come this season, the progress—

260. everything's been sort of like a fairy tale.

261. We've been down here for 14 years,

262. so it's time we went up.

263. Yeah, up the town, up the town.

264. He plays in red and white

265. He's fucking dynamite

266. We've got Super Paul Mullin

267. I've not known the town buzz like this for years.

268. And it's all down to the football club, for sure.

269. There's just that sense of something's

270. happening that things are coming together,

271. and that really is fantastic.

272. It's something to really, really

273. look forward to, uh, 5:00 tomorrow,

274. Sunday, and see that—

275. let's get in there and show them how it's done.

276. For the last two weeks, I've been doing nothing,

277. just, like, coming in, icing, doing this every day.

278. So I got to do this every day just to try and keep my bulk.

279. The Weymouth away is where, uh, I did my hammy,

280. my tendon, my hamstring.

281. Toz played me a pass, and I opened out to run.

282. And I just felt a sharp, like, pain in my hamstring.

283. It wasn't a pop or anything,

284. which is great, 'cause nothing went.

285. But it's just, like, a micro tear,

286. but it was actually in the tendon that got tore.

287. So... the tendon tore, and I just knew

288. I couldn't go on after that 'cause the pain was sharp.

289. And then at first when the injury happens,

290. you're just thinking—

291. you hope it's not bad.

292. Then obviously, he told me what it was.

293. And then... at that point, I was just thinking...

294. my season's over and I can't help the boys.

295. Took a while to sink in.

296. So today we're off to the last game of the season.

297. We're going to Dagenham & Redbridge.

298. I am nervous, to be honest.

299. We've got four hours until we get there,

300. four and a bit,

301. but I am excited,

302. and I do think we're definitely gonna go up.

303. Wrexham! Wrexham!

304. Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!

305. I've said since Christmas,

306. we're gonna win the league.

307. It's just a really good time to be a Wrexham fan.

308. Is it too early to drink?

309. What the hell are you doing?

310. Uh, I'm working out my anxiety through, uh,

311. body movements.

312. Oh.

313. We've got two hours and seven minutes,

314. not that I'm counting.

315. If the Hollywood ending happens today...

316. To Wrexham. Cheers.

317. We'll do it again.

318. The fact we're here, the challenge today

319. is actually what we were seeking to try and achieve

320. at the outset of the season.

321. To Halifax.

322. To Wrexham.

323. You know, and it's a credit to everybody involved

324. that we got ourselves into this position.

325. And, uh, we've got 90 minutes away

326. from, uh, our destiny being known.

327. Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!

328. Good luck.

329. We're all behind you.

330. A horrible wet, windy away day

331. with a great set of lads with a great...

332. bunch of fans traveling.

333. Wrexham!

334. I knew what I signed up to.

335. I knew why I came here.

336. That's to get this football club

337. and give this town something to cheer about.

338. Good afternoon from the final league game

339. of the National League season.

340. All comes down to this.

341. The equation is quite simple.

342. Wrexham have to win their game.

343. And it's all eyes on Stockport

344. in their game against Halifax.

345. Even if Halifax doesn't win,

346. we're still somewhere, right?

347. Then we get the tournament. - Yeah.

348. And we're underway

349. at the Chigwell Construction Stadium.

350. Paul Mullin was not intercepted.

351. He's on his own, though.

352. Well, Mullin hits it low, just wide.

353. He's still in the middle.

354. Ollie Palmer at the back post.

355. He was just forced away from goal.

356. Uh-oh.

357. Oh, Stockport scored.

358. Oh.

359. Goal at Stockport,

360. not the news Wrexham wanted.

361. You could literally hear it pass round the crowd.

362. Stockport scored early.

363. Obviously, the result, the scoreline,

364. filtered around the Dagenham stadium.

365. Not many people get to deal with pressure in life.

366. And to have to do it every week is, um, quite strange.

367. You sort of get used to it,

368. but obviously, it intensifies as the season goes on.

369. If, in the game of football,

370. all the players looked as if they had no energy at all,

371. there's some reason for that.

372. to punch it away,

373. and that's it.

374. Halftime, nil-nil.

375. Shit.

376. 70 fucking percent.

377. It's 70% for me, right?

378. So two things— as a team, right, listen,

379. we're coming off this fucking pitch in the second half.

380. And we're gonna fucking put a shift in.

381. We're gonna work our fucking bollocks off,

382. right, out of possession.

383. And then we're gonna play.

384. You're fucking tired.

385. You're not pushing yourself hard enough.

386. Football's fucking hard. That's what it is.

387. If we have to carry you off the pitch after 98 minutes,

388. we will carry you off the pitch.

389. Get up against the man you're playing against

390. and be better than him.

391. Be better than the center half, Ollie,

392. you and Mulls.

393. Get in the fucking box when the cross is out.

394. Be better than the man you're playing against,

395. and you'll win this fucking game, all right?

396. Come on, boys. - Fucking come on, then.

397. Come on. Come on.

398. If Mulls and Ollie are closing, then we back them up.

399. Wrexham, we do

400. We love you, Wrexham, we do

401. We love you, Wrexham, we do

402. Oh, Wrexham, we love you

403. Come on, Wrexham! Go get him, JJ!

404. Come on, come on, come on.

405. Jeez. Uh-oh.

406. They're just all over us.

407. Bryce is in on his right foot.

408. He hits it. He's in.

409. And that's been coming,

410. and with 55 minutes on the clock.

411. Dagenham battered us, basically, you know?

412. The back post, McCallum, goal.

413. It wasn't good enough.

414. We all knew it wasn't good enough.

415. See McCallum lays off to Robinson,

416. 3-nil, and it just gets worse and worse for Wrexham.

417. Fuck!

418. Yeah, it's tough to watch from the sideline

419. this team not performing, you know?

420. But I can't say nothing 'cause I'm not playing, you know?

421. I think, leading up to that game, there—

422. there was no talk that we could possibly lose the game.

423. There was all talk that we were gonna—

424. we were gonna win the game.

425. As a squad, we probably got carried away with that.

426. Wrexham's regular season

427. ends in a 3-nil away defeat

428. to Dagenham & Redbridge.

429. Phil Parkinson's side

430. finish second in the Vanarama National League.

431. All right, well, let's go get it.

432. Let's go get it at Wembley.

433. And—and let's go get it at Wrexham.

434. And let's go get it again in, uh, West Ham.

435. Yeah, exactly.

436. All right. Talk soon. - All right.

437. I love that the fans are still behind them.

438. It's hard, because I never want

439. to let the fans down.

440. I wanted to give the people of the town

441. exactly what they deserve for all their—their passion

442. and—and their following.

443. It is a great honor to be on the touchline

444. with support like that.

445. You know, the—the fans were outstanding for us,

446. but they have been all season.

447. Today they knew that Stockport were winning.

448. They knew that the lads looked as if

449. the stuffing had been knocked out of them a little bit.

450. And they kind of understood that

451. and gave the lads amazing support,

452. as they've done all season.

453. And, you know, it's a—a great privilege

454. to be the manager on the touchline

455. in front of those supporters.

456. And, you know, we've got a great opportunity now

457. to finish this season in style.

458. When Rob dragged me into this insanity,

459. I think that the most common thing we heard was,

460. "Why Wrexham?"

461. Not one Wrexham fan has left the stadium.

462. They're not gonna let this team leave

463. without showing them what this season has meant.

464. That question was answered,

465. I mean, so many times throughout the season,

466. but I think that's why.