Welcome to Wrexham 1x8

1. Hi, Ryan. How we doing?

2. Hey, you're co— you're a little chilly.

3. Chilly? Yeah, a little nervous.

4. - Nervous? - Yeah.

5. First game. - Mm-hmm.

6. And it's an away game.

7. - Yes. - Not, like, a friendly crowd.

8. We'll see, but...

9. I don't know that I'm expecting

10. any kind of animosity,

11. specifically towards us.

12. Maybe towards the—

13. Shanked with a broken bottle or something.

14. Well, I guess... it's all fair game.

15. Yeah.

16. Exciting. It is exciting.

17. All right. Hi.

18. Come on through.

19. Here we go. Welcome to Maidenhead United.

20. Thank you.

21. Yeah.

22. On a scale of one to ten, how excited are you?

23. It's brilliant, innit?

24. We're good. I don't know where we're going.

25. So we'll just follow you. Lead the way.

26. Every day

27. It's a-getting closer

28. Going faster than a roller coaster

29. Love like yours will surely come my way

30. A-hey, a-hey-hey

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

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

33. Love like yours will surely come my way

34. A-hey, a-hey-hey

35. Love like yours will surely come my way

36. Listen, it's been, by no means,

37. an easy run so far, has it?

38. Not at all. - Do you know what I mean?

39. I—I think he...

40. For crying out loud.

41. Yeah, but the way he plays...

42. I mean, do you wanna go back to having shit plays

43. and no money in the bank?

44. You'll be in screen three.

45. Mm-hmm.

46. All right, thank you.

47. We're here, guys, here at the premiere

48. of, uh— what's it called again?

49. "What's it called again?"

50. Uh, Free Guy, uh, drinking some free beer,

51. so thanks to my mate Ryan. Cheers.

52. Never has there been a film premiere

53. in Wrexham before.

54. He came back to me when he saw the picture.

55. He said, uh, "Who's the guy in the big necklace?"

56. Wrexham!

57. I wish I could be there with you all tonight.

58. Um, I cannot wait to finally make it there,

59. but, uh, in the meantime,

60. I hope you enjoy this film

61. as much as we enjoyed making it.

62. Uh, as Guy would say,

63. "Don't be a good guy.

64. Be a great guy."

65. Okay, boys.

66. Today is a few reminders of what we need to do

67. going into next week and the coming games.

68. Did they work hard to stop us,

69. or did we just not quite make our system work?

70. I think it was more us than them.

71. One thing that we have definitely noticed

72. is that Phil's vernacular changes, uh,

73. from when he is in real life...

74. Any support you need, you know we're right behind you, my son.

75. Thanks for that, Phil. Appreciate it.

76. Thank you very much.

77. He's really quite reserved

78. and measured, kind of quiet.

79. Genteel, almost.

80. But during the games, in the locker room,

81. he can be...

82. First of all, win the fucking battle.

83. Enthusiastic?

84. We are fucking miles better than that!

85. We look like a team of fucking fanny fucking footballers!

86. And definitely with the referees,

87. he's exceptionally... enthusiastic.

88. That's a fucking joke!

89. Fucking hell!

90. Fuck off! Fuck off!

91. It's our free kick!

92. Hey! It's our fucking free kick!

93. Uh, but again, you know, in real life,

94. he's just— he's not really like that.

95. Get the balls, David.

96. I'm loving that, son.

97. Your attitude's brilliant.

98. It's been a strange season in many ways,

99. where the performance levels have been good,

100. but we've struggled to really kill teams off.

101. Yalla, yalla.

102. Yes.

103. I speak to a lot of supporters

104. in and around the ground,

105. and sometimes it's easier to say,

106. "Oh, we need another player. We need this, this."

107. But, you know, can we get more out of the players we've got?

108. Yeah, push past it! Good. Yes.

109. Tremendous, sunshine. Good lad.

110. Run up!

111. Cross these streets

112. Gon' cross the sea

113. I'ma make my way back home

114. Make my way back home

115. Kickin' that can

116. The sound from the Racecourse Ground is mad.

117. Just makes me wanna go out there

118. and do so well for the fans.

119. At some point, something's gonna give.

120. I'm gonna make my way back home

121. I'm gonna make my way back home

122. All right, so this is my mirror.

123. I made it myself.

124. That's why it looks a bit like—

125. it looks a bit bootleg.

126. I like to trim before games

127. just so I'm fresh and ready to go.

128. But yeah, I find it therapeutic.

129. But the whole thing is,

130. you've got to try and get it even on both sides.

131. And then I don't know if you've ever trimmed your hair,

132. everything's back to front,

133. so left is right, and right is left, so...

134. your brain takes a while to get adjusted to that.

135. I know I'm doing an all right job now,

136. because no one says to me,

137. "Oh, have you trimmed your hair yourself?"

138. Gives me confidence, that,

139. especially when you see people go, "Oh, you got a fresh trim?"

140. If you're not confident, you might as well not even

141. touch your head.

142. I've been struggling a lot this season

143. to find my flow in the team.

144. I feel like I've kind of let the people down.

145. Hello, baby.

146. Is your daddy trimming?

147. Can you tidy up a little bit, the—your mustache, then?

148. Ugh.

149. You always ask me, "What do you want?"

150. and then you— No, I'm joking.

151. I'll—I'll clean up my mustache.

152. Yeah? Yeah.

153. I'm happy with that. All right, see you in a bit.

154. See you in a bit.

155. Should we go and see Mommy?

156. Hello?

157. Yeah, it does look nice. It looks really nice.

158. No, you did look rough, but you look good now.

159. You look really nice.

160. All right, then, have a great game.

161. - Bye. Love you. - Bye. Love you too.

162. Bye. Bye, baby.

163. Say bye to Daddy.

164. Be good. Say bye-bye.

165. Bye.

166. Say bye-bye.

167. Welcome to the fun bus, everybody.

168. Aye, our fun bus.

169. In the early days with my job,

170. I realized that we didn't provide any away travel

171. for—for wheelchair users.

172. With the accessible away travel,

173. we take four wheelchair users and their carers to—

174. at the moment, we're doing about 12 games a season,

175. so we cover half of the away season,

176. making it easier for people to attend Wrexham Football Club

177. and enjoy—enjoy football.

178. It's a very, very special service.

179. The drive has been seeing the difference that you make.

180. Even the smallest of changes

181. makes such a huge impact

182. on people that you're trying to help.

183. Oh, Wrexham, we love you

184. Yay!

185. My name is Mark Vaughn.

186. I'm the coach driver for Wrexham AFC Football Club.

187. I have been driving the team now for—

188. this'll be my fourth season coming up.

189. Everybody wants to play for Wrexham when they're young,

190. so it's always been a lifelong ambition of mine

191. to sort of—

192. when I started driving, to drive a team coach,

193. and it's just, pff, a dream come true

194. for me like this, obviously.

195. I'm not a driver. I'm—I'm part of the team.

196. I'm a team member.

197. Two of my lads there.

198. How are you doing? All right?

199. Phil Parkinson is taking his side

200. on the road today for a Tuesday night fixture

201. against Maidenhead United.

202. Wrexham, currently sitting in 11th in the league,

203. should do well against the Maidenhead team

204. that has struggled and finds itself down in 19th place.

205. Come on, Wrexham! Yeah, baby.

206. Away game culture in English football

207. is unlike anything that we have in America.

208. Every single Tuesday night or Saturday morning,

209. you get hundreds of people that are gonna pile

210. onto a bus, and they will drive for hours.

211. Maidenhead is 31/2 to 4 hours away from Wrexham,

212. and along the way, they'll talk; they'll sing.

213. Wrexham, Wrexham!

214. They may or may not drink,

215. although they're probably drinking.

216. Uh, and they'll watch the game for two hours,

217. and then they'll drive 31/2 to 4 hours back

218. on a Tuesday night.

219. So we've been dying to get over for a game,

220. and it just so happens that the first one

221. that we're able to attend is in fact Maidenhead.

222. So that's an away game, but it's super close to London,

223. and it just made total sense.

224. So Rob's flight

225. is about 12 hours, uh, from Los Angeles.

226. My flight's about six from New York.

227. He's only traveling one hour longer

228. than those fans from Wrexham.

229. Pretty amazing.

230. We are here. It's pretty wild.

231. What is your prediction?

232. 3-nil.

233. Wow.

234. I'm going—my prediction,

235. uh, Wrexham versus Maidenhead, I would—

236. I'm gonna say 2-1.

237. - 2-1. - 2-1 Wrexham.

238. You heard it here first.

239. Okay.

240. You know, the aim is,

241. can we get into January,

242. you know, right in the mix at the top end of the table?

243. Understanding, I think there's probably

244. about 450, 500 Wrexham fans

245. down on a Tuesday night to leafy Berkshire.

246. It's just one hell of a turnout.

247. Sorry to, uh, be distracted,

248. 'cause guess who's turned up.

249. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

250. Go... Wrexham, Wrexham!

251. Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!

252. We are Wrexham, super Wrexham!

253. We're gonna win the league!

254. We'll have to focus on the football

255. at some point, but, uh, well,

256. who knew they'd turn up to this match?

257. As you can hear in the background—

258. hopefully you can hear us,

259. because that's the Wrexham fans in full voice.

260. They've got a real buzz here.

261. The owners are in town.

262. Which team is Wrexham?

263. Go, boys! Wrexham will be

264. in their green kit.

265. Maidenhead are playing in black and white stripes.

266. They've got their owners right here,

267. and for the first time, they'll be able to perform

268. in front of the— Ryan and Rob.

269. Here you go.

270. Wrexham feeding it back to Aaron Hayden.

271. And he stands up the big guy, McAlinden.

272. Dribbles through two players.

273. Gets two off the byline.

274. Attacking throw-in.

275. How do they determine, then,

276. where's the ball thrown, and is it just point of exit?

277. - Yeah, wherever it goes out. - And who makes that call, him?

278. Yeah, he decides which way it is,

279. which—which team.

280. Uh, Mullin has such a, like, distinctive gait.

281. Yes, he does. The way he runs

282. with his head sort of hunched over.

283. Oh!

284. - Nice, Dibs. - Whoa.

285. Nice, Dibs.

286. Forward touch, and Brisley tries to clear

287. and takes a body ricochet for Wrexham

288. and opens it well to find Mendy,

289. who works it over to the left.

290. Kelly now attacking in from the box.

291. Takes on French again. French makes it—

292. And Maidenhead take the lead!

293. A diving header from six yards out.

294. Rob and Ryan will find out

295. what this team is made of now.

296. Mullin will keep scrapping.

297. He wins a good header.

298. It's cleared by Upward, who's a bright star.

299. And now Smith using his weight.

300. As Reckord and Brisley get in each other's way,

301. Smith gets past 'em.

302. He's got players in support on the edge of the area.

303. He helps it out wide. It's all back—

304. Driven in! And it's in!

305. 2-nil.

306. Unbelievable, this!

307. I said 2-1 Wrexham, right? Or did I say Maidenhead?

308. Yeah, you did. Yeah, you—you were wrong.

309. We were— we were both wrong already.

310. - Yeah. - And we're only 22 minutes

311. in to the game.

312. Whoa! - Ooh, Jesus Christ.

313. That could so easily have been an on goal.

314. Hey! There's nothing in it!

315. Fuck off. There's nothing in it!

316. No. A red card.

317. Hosannah has been sent off.

318. Ref, Ref, did you see that?

319. Are you kidding?

320. So now we're down 2-0 with...

321. Ten men. - One fewer player.

322. This is a real underdog story.

323. What am I getting shit— shit-talked there for?

324. Ryan Reynolds, what?

325. You—you bought the wrong club.

326. Oh.

327. Mullin on his own, being manhandled.

328. Fucking hell!

329. Sheckleford, who plays the ball through.

330. And in the end, Dibble has to come

331. to the edge of his box just to get there.

332. Fucking okay, come on, Paul.

333. Mullin running at the defense.

334. He's got options either way, and he's body checked,

335. but the ref doesn't give it.

336. Did he not just get fucking elbowed in the face?

337. As a hush comes over the crowd

338. as the ball is swept in.

339. Under the bar, Dibble takes that round.

340. Hayden has a heavy touch. And he's dispossessed now.

341. It's Kelly bursting in behind the defense.

342. It's like amateur hour at the moment.

343. I mean, Hayden had such a heavy touch.

344. Davies driving forwards.

345. Ah, he stumbles, though.

346. Gets a free kick.

347. So Davies over this.

348. Davies gets the go-ahead, steps up,

349. dinks it into the far post.

350. It drops loose!

351. And it's in!

352. Brisley headed it against the bar.

353. Mullin's claiming it.

354. He plays in red and white

355. He's fucking dynamite

356. We've got Super Paul Mullin

357. We've got Super Paul Mullin

358. And the referee decides that's halftime.

359. Well, listen to the Wrexham fans.

360. Who'd have thought it?

361. Crazy stuff, but somehow Wrexham are still in it.

362. So 2-1 is better than 2-0.

363. Wrexham, Wrexham!

364. Think we can get back in it, lads?

365. Yeah. Fucking right.

366. Fucking right, they're fucking on their last

367. bastard legs already.

368. Fucking stupid boot in the fucking ball.

369. Fucking stupid foul, McA.

370. Do you want us to go down to fucking nine men?

371. We're fucking gonna get back in the game.

372. I fucking think we can fucking win it,

373. never mind fucking draw it.

374. Keep your cool. Keep your cool.

375. But stay in fucking challenges.

376. We've dangled our fucking foot

377. too many fucking times, haven't we?

378. Toz, McA, too many little fucking things.

379. And then they're fucking— they're attacking us.

380. Come on. You gotta be strong,

381. physical, but in control.

382. Let's go make it happen, then. Come on!

383. Come on, come on.

384. We're still under it a bit here,

385. obviously, 'cause of the ten men.

386. One goal. One goal.

387. Drives it back over the top, Mullin!

388. And they're chased into the area here.

389. Mullin beats his man.

390. See, we're on the downhill side now.

391. Wrexham with the ball back from the throw-in.

392. Angus in the corner of the box,

393. surrounded by defenders as well,

394. finds Davies, shooting position.

395. Jordan Davies! Scream it.

396. Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham, Wrexham!

397. Oh, my word. Wow.

398. What a strike.

399. High fives going on in the American box there.

400. Well, that's not how we celebrate here.

401. We just make the noise.

402. Jordan Davies, he's one of our own

403. He's one of our own

404. This is a fun game.

405. - No, it's not. - This is a very fun game.

406. - It is not fun! - No, it's terrible.

407. There's nothing fun about this!

408. Wrexham, Wrexham!

409. upwards.

410. He's found some—

411. Ah! A wide cross,

412. comes in dangerously, ricochets across Smith,

413. gonna hit this, puts it well over the bar, though.

414. My heart can't take this.

415. He swings it in.

416. This time, headed to the far post.

417. Hayden nearly got there.

418. Oh, that's agonizingly close for Aaron Hayden.

419. He's desperate to make up for those earlier mistakes.

420. Some are fighting to win it back.

421. And is it a free—well, surely that's a free kick to Wrexham.

422. Come on!

423. Was there a stamp in there?

424. Hey, Paul, stand up for me, would you?

425. There you go. The ref is not

426. gonna do anything about it. Shake it off.

427. Now Mullin deep in his own half

428. and drive forwards,

429. and he's breaking down the right-hand side.

430. Fabulous stuff for Mullin, that.

431. They win the throw-in.

432. Oh, dear, it's, uh, well over.

433. Very powerful, but not troubling the keeper.

434. The Maidenhead keeper sends it to midfield.

435. Oh, it's a good ball! Over the top.

436. Going to Kelly.

437. Aaron Hayden's got back, but he's overshot the ball!

438. Can he recover? It's too late!

439. He hits it.

440. Oh, what a goal!

441. - Fucking hell!

442. Unbelievable strike.

443. Sweeping into the bottom right corner.

444. And Wrexham are behind again.

445. Fucking headers.

446. That is the final whistle.

447. The Maidenhead fans are delighted.

448. Wrexham's in a horrible performance.

449. Of our players, Hayden had a disappointing game.

450. Despite Jordan's performance, it wasn't enough.

451. On paper, Maidenhead United are a side

452. we should be beating.

453. But that's a story Wrexham fans know all too well.

454. Welcome to Wrexham, Ryan and Rob.

455. Thanks, buddy.

456. Yeah.

457. Good match. Good game.

458. Good game. Good game.

459. Good game. Good match, guys.

460. Good game, fellas.

461. Okay. We're all right.

462. - It's all right.

463. Yeah. - You know.

464. All right. Thanks, bud.

465. We'll talk, yeah? All right.

466. Fucking hell.

467. Yeah, I mean, um...

468. And with that result

469. now in the record books,

470. Wrexham remains stuck frustratingly

471. in 11th place in the table.

472. Ah, it's, well...

473. I don't know how people do this.

474. It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking.

475. - That was heartbreaking. - Yeah.

476. My American optimism and your Canadian pragmatism,

477. uh, both fucked us.

478. Yeah, they really did. Yeah.

479. Jesus.

480. Look.

481. You can't taste the sweet

482. until you taste the sour, I guess.

483. You're not gonna talk like this for four hours,

484. are you?