Welcome to Wrexham 1x4

1. Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!

2. The noise is terrific

3. here at the Racecourse as Wrexham look to start off

4. a new era at the club.

5. The referee gives the go ahead.

6. And away Wrexham go.

7. Listen to that.

8. Jones with a great ball.

9. Mullin round the back of the defense.

10. Hyde's in the middle.

11. Feeds him in

12. and puts it behind him.

13. What a chance that was.

14. And I gotta say, I'd normally bet my house on Mullin

15. making the most of that.

16. That's two shots in the first 80 seconds.

17. Cross comes in from Davies now.

18. Looking again for Mullin, who brings it down easily.

19. Left-footed shot is blocked.

20. It'll spin to Young!

21. And Young puts it over! Oh!

22. Oh!

23. We almost made the goal.

24. Notts County's defense is hanging on

25. for dear life.

26. Shoot! Get it in, Hydey!

27. And it's a great ball dinked in the box.

28. Mullin across the face!

29. Oh, what a brilliant piece of defending.

30. Mullin drove it in.

31. Hyde looked to have an open-goal tap-in.

32. Wrexham battering away at Notts County.

33. The breakthrough surely will come.

34. Quality first half.

35. I've never seen so much adrenaline

36. pumping through them nil-nil in the National League.

37. Get in the space, eh!

38. Get in the space, would ya?

39. Controlled on the edge of the area

40. by French! He gives that away.

41. Now Wrexham are left vulnerable here.

42. That was a poor pass.

43. Swinging in the cross of the far post.

44. It's a good cross.

45. Wooton heads it.

46. And it's in!

47. Notts County score.

48. Massively against the run-up play,

49. but what a cross.

50. You can hear the reaction

51. from the Wrexham fans. It was a great noise there.

52. Wow.

53. Right. Well done.

54. You've done great, boys. You've done great.

55. Don't let the goal lift them and knock us.

56. Just keep playing the way you've been fucking playing.

57. Keep putting the ball in the box.

58. If it's not on, we come out and we move it

59. really quickly, keep switching the play.

60. Performance. Come on then, let's go!

61. Come on! - Worry about performance.

62. What separates teams from winning and losing,

63. drawing and winning is moments of quality.

64. And in any team, you're only as good as your front players.

65. Mullin cuts inside, edging him off,

66. sweeps a great ball.

67. Oh, what an amazing piece of defending by Taylor.

68. When you sign a player like Paul—

69. you know, he's one of those players—

70. he can produce moments of—

71. of real quality in games of football.

72. He's got a bit of magic

73. and goals win games.

74. Hyde does well on the sly to work it wide.

75. French feeds it inside.

76. A wicked cross, and it's in!

77. Yes! Mullin gets a goal in!

78. And Mullin has headed it home!

79. Mullin gets his first goal of the season

80. at the Racecourse.

81. Gracefully done!

82. Sensational cross.

83. Keeper Kean to bounce it.

84. Mullin just got there ahead of him.

85. Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!

86. Listen to this. Wow.

87. Wrexham, Wrexham!

88. Well, we've had our homecoming,

89. and it was spectacular.

90. If we're gonna do that to the strong teams this season,

91. the rest of the division's got a problem on its hands.

92. Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!

93. Fuckin' wind.

94. We redid the pitch in the summer.

95. And basically, the short and long is,

96. the pitch has failed.

97. It's just too—it's too dry, innit?

98. The rest of the season's gonna be a big challenge

99. for me personally and I'm going to cry.

100. So I've got some bad news.

101. We re-laid our pitch this summer,

102. um, at no small expense.

103. And it looks great,

104. but there's something wrong with it.

105. And, um, we— - It's made of burlap.

106. - We had—basically yes.

107. The roots of the grass are very short,

108. so when—when someone steps into it and the—the top of it

109. sticks to the bottom of the boot,

110. when they pull up,

111. the whole top layer of grass comes off with it.

112. So we got an independent expert on this stuff to come out.

113. He said— - Is this the kind of thing

114. you th—you thought you'd be talking about

115. or thinking about? - I'm actually fucking riveted

116. because... - I am, too, but—

117. I can't wait to find out what happens.

118. What we've been told by this—

119. this independent expert is he said,

120. "You need to drown this pitch.

121. "You need to overwater it the whole time.

122. That will help the pitch hold together."

123. As we speak, Ewen is out there with a hose.

124. Is there a more likelihood that someone could be injured?

125. Yes.

126. - Jesus fuck. - Now the overwatering

127. is what reduces that possibility.

128. I'm gonna hit my head as hard as I can

129. against this right now.

130. And it's gonna cost us a lot of money.

131. How much— how much money have we spent

132. on the first round of it?

133. I can look it up. - Approximately?

134. Don't look it up.

135. It's not gonna help us. Probably about

136. £100,000. - Fuck.

137. And it'll probably cost us that again

138. if not more to relay the pitch.

139. Yeah, it's...

140. it's—it sucks.

141. - Mm.

142. That's pretty bad.

143. So running a football club is expensive.

144. Issues like we're having with the pitch

145. and the expenditure we had to do over the summer

146. to improve some of the concourse area

147. and things like that, those have to be paid for

148. and, you know, a lot of National League clubs

149. are essentially relying on the tickets they sell

150. and very small amounts of sponsorship

151. from local businesses.

152. Well, we're looking for new ways

153. to bring fresh eyeballs onto what we're doing

154. and increasing our revenue streams.

155. And we'll take whatever we can get.

156. So much of the endeavor

157. is based on growing the exposure of the club.

158. And I knew that having somebody like Ryan

159. was gonna be really important because of social media.

160. Because between the two of us,

161. we have something like 45 million Instagram followers

162. and 20 million, uh, Twitter followers,

163. so we could directly engage with them.

164. So I thought we were good— good partners in that way.

165. Uh, it's close. Yeah, I've—

166. This is where you're gonna put up a graphic

167. that shows the actual numbers.

168. Aren't you? Yeah. No.

169. I would never do that to you.

170. This is our new away shirt for next season.

171. It's Philadelphia Eagles green.

172. You ready?

173. Hey, guys.

174. We've gone from AEC Engineering

175. to Expedia. I've got

176. with me Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

177. You feel like you know what you're doing?

178. Absolutely not.

179. From Ifor Williams Trailers to TikTok.

180. So there it is, eh?

181. TikTok because of—of—of obviously

182. Wrexham football club.

183. I'll give it a go.

184. Well, I can't work it.

185. - Stop. - Like, casually just—

186. just push me and I'm gonna dive like—like, yeah.

187. Should I flop around or is better to just go...

188. - Oh, yeah, no, like— - Just to go limp?

189. No, 'cause they—they all—

190. - Yeah, they, like, go— - They're like, "Oh, God."

191. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

192. We have to remember

193. that we're Wrexham in the National League,

194. but we've also got to utilize that celebrity asset

195. to maximize the potential for the club.

196. We opened the online shop and it's gone up

197. to about 50 grand compared to this time last year,

198. where we was about 3 grand.

199. So what do you do now?

200. Oh, Wrexham AFC.

201. The more we maximize their celebrity status,

202. the more income can be generated.

203. That puts more money into the club,

204. which means we can do more

205. to deliver that community benefit,

206. which was all part of the mission statement.

207. Aah!

208. Aah! You fuck!

209. This grass is like cashmere.

210. Is this real?

211. You are a middle-aged—

212. And then some people...

213. How much is it?

214. Can you fuck off?

215. There is a bullet in there somewhere.

216. Just guessing where it's gonna be.

217. Yeah.

218. Oh, you got it there?

219. Yeah. Yeah, facts.

220. Money, money, money!

221. Yeah.

222. I don't even know.

223. We—no one knows, but...

224. Here we go.

225. Albs, do you want some juice?

226. Come on.

227. Do you want some?

228. Where's Daddy gone? - Blah, blah.

229. I'm gonna get ya.

230. Can you reach?

231. There it is!

232. Yay! - Good boy.

233. You want to go and dig?

234. Dig in the mud so Daddy clean it.

235. You diggin'? Other way.

236. Turn it over. That's it.

237. Daddy help.

238. Oh, easy.

239. Yeah. - And then you go...

240. Do you know what I mean? That's—

241. Our football season comprises 44 games.

242. You get three points for a win,

243. one point for a draw,

244. and obviously, zero points for a loss.

245. The team that has most points

246. at the end of the season is the champion club

247. and are promoted to the EFL.

248. We're going into this season to get promoted.

249. That is our goal.

250. That is our job.

251. The good news is that we have the support

252. of the town.

253. Wrexham! These fans feel like

254. after 15 dark years, the sun's finally come out

255. to shine again.

256. I wanna get there soon because—

257. before anything's really happened

258. because everyone likes us still.

259. - I know.

260. Like, if somebody... - I know.

261. If this shit goes south all of a sudden—

262. Well, it's gonna go south at some point.

263. - Of course. - Like, already you see—

264. Hopefully, it's in 25 years

265. and they're in the Premier League.

266. We are Wrexham, super Wrexham.

267. We're gonna win the league.

268. His foot—

269. he's got movement in the box.

270. Good ball, and oh, it's too easy for Dalby.

271. Wrexham's gotta watch. Poor defending, that.

272. Phil Parkinson will be fumin'.

273. Well, Wrexham got their line wrong again here.

274. Murphy, he's goal side, he's on side, and he scores!

275. Oh, Wrexham. Two down.

276. And Wrexham have clawed their way back somehow,

277. but it's only one point against the side

278. we should be beating.

279. We're seventh in the table now.

280. Hello, Mr. Co-chairman.

281. Hi, Ryan.

282. Some game, huh?

283. Gettin' real sick of these draws.

284. Yeah, yeah, it's hard to get, um—

285. it's hard to get excited about a draw.

286. I'm finding football to be very weird.

287. Some draws are considered wins,

288. some are considered losses.

289. This is a loss, I think.

290. Yeah, we, uh—

291. I can't wait to get over there.

292. It's so weird not—

293. It's so weird not actually being there.

294. Yeah, it'd be nice to see 'em win, though.

295. Yeah.

296. Yep.

297. This is kinda feeling like the draw of phone calls.

298. Hanging up now. See ya Tuesday.

299. Love you!

300. It's Wrexham against Grimsby,

301. a fissure that goes back to 1922

302. between two storied clubs

303. who really shouldn't be down in the fifth division.

304. Good ball by Young! Jake Hyde scores!

305. Hyde puts Wrexham ahead early on!

306. The perfect start.

307. Young did ever so well.

308. The owners and the money you're spending,

309. we're gonna have a target on our back

310. and that's how it's gonna be.

311. Ball in. Oh, it's a great finish.

312. Taylor puts Grimsby level.

313. Wrexham have only been in the lead for four minutes.

314. And that can be relatively daunting going to away games,

315. knowing that you're gonna get battered for 90 minutes.

316. Here comes the corner.

317. Luke Waterfall, he's unmarked! And he scored!

318. The ex-Wrexham defender... - Oh, fucking hell.

319. Has put Grimsby ahead.

320. Oh, it's too easy, too easy.

321. Wright taps it in.

322. Wrexham have collapsed here.

323. That's three points that we won't know

324. until the end of the season just what impact it will have.

325. Can't win the league in the first eight games,

326. but you can lose your chance to win it.

327. If the team is really struggling to click...

328. Ha, welcome to Wrexham, boys.

329. You could have the best 11 players on the pitch...

330. I do feel a bit of pressure from the fans

331. as if it's my fault when we don't win.

332. The next nights are horrible. You're sitting there thinking

333. what could you have done?

334. It's not working. It's not balanced.

335. It's up to Parkinson to find a way

336. to make these two work or change it.

337. Fans pay their money and they wanna see results.

338. Make no bones about it, if Ryan and Rob are not doing

339. what Wrexham fans perceive to be in the best interests

340. of Wrexham Football Club,

341. there will be a loud voice that lets 'em know

342. it's—it won't be accepted because we've been trodden on

343. too many times.

344. Paul Mullin's there in the area, unmarked.

345. And Paul Mullin has set Wrexham

346. one-nil up here at Edgeley Park!

347. Fans are on the pitch

348. and that man has done it again!

349. Paul Mullin has set Wrexham one-nil up here

350. in the opening stages!

351. If I had to sum football up,

352. it's—it's like a roller coaster.

353. It's up and down.

354. Rooney swings it into the area.

355. Madden gets there, and it's in for Stockport!

356. Paddy Madden gets the goal as Stockport level.

357. Great cross from Whitfield.

358. Alex Reid's header across goal.

359. Paddy Madden near the back post

360. and Croasdale's there, blocked.

361. And it's gone in for Stockport.

362. Stockport have scored.

363. And that is back-to-back defeat on the road.

364. Fantastic traveling support from Wrexham,

365. and they will be disappointed

366. to see their side go down here.

367. Wrexham fall all the way into 12th place

368. and they're heading decidedly in the wrong direction.

369. Watching the biggest load of crap

370. I've seen in a long time.

371. No, it was a really disappointing night from us.

372. Abject, disgraceful, embarrassing.

373. 9 points from a possible 18.

374. Questions will be asked about everything and rightly so.

375. I've only been owner of a football club

376. for a short time.

377. But so far,

378. I've found it to be very time-consuming,

379. emotionally exhausting,

380. financially idiotic,

381. and utterly addictive.

382. I'm used to being able to go into a writers' room

383. and come out at the end of it

384. knowing what's going to happen.

385. And I don't know what's gonna happen here.

386. At least the pitch looks nice.

387. Indeed it does.

388. Goodnight, Ryan.

389. Goodnight, Rob.

390. Someone should probably—

391. yep, there you go.