00:05for all that billy meredith john charles and ian rush have brought to welsh football
00:10the reality in the 21st century is that for many fans around the world
00:15wales exists as a football nation mostly as an offshoot of hollywood
00:20the takeover of wrexham afc in 2021 by actors ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenny thrust the then
00:28non-league club into the headlines everything we do is in you know in lockstep with the community
00:35of wrexham you know hopefully to you know make sure that wrexham is the name is something that's
00:39a little bit more global than it is now that's that's a big priority for us is expanding and
00:44growing the club in every way we can in wrexham's 150 plus year existence the club has never played
00:52in the top flight and only briefly in the second tier but under hollywood ownership the red dragons
01:00found a new scriptwriter winning promotion from the national league in 2023 then league two in 2024.
01:09to say it was fun and at times it was fun but it was incredibly stressful as any football fan
01:15knows
01:16uh the amount of anxiety that courses through your veins over the course of uh of a season is as
01:22astronomical so towards the end there for uh as joyous as as it was at the very end it was
01:29uh dicey
01:30leading up to that the takeover was accompanied by an access all areas docuseries welcome to wrexham
01:37which has garnered the club an army of admirers across the globe i think the single biggest thing
01:42they brought to the club and to the town and to everybody it's just a sense of sort of you
01:47know
01:48to borrow uh the presidential slogan of barack obama a sense of like yes we can like this idea of
01:54like
01:54why not why not wrexham why not why should people in this town expect less from life than people do
02:01in
02:02other towns in around the world wrexham's ascent has somehow managed to unite hardcore locals international
02:09hangers-on and even royalty with swansea city and cardiff city both enjoying spells in the premier league
02:19in recent years and now wrexham on the rise club football in wales has never been in ruder health
02:28a country once defined by rugby is now a thriving football nation
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