With a hometown victory towards Charlton Athletic FC at Racecourse Floor, the Wales-hailing Wrexham AFC has cemented its second-tier standing — a hopeful cease resulting in the coveted Premier League.
Co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who star in and govt produce FX’s docuseries on the soccer membership’s underdog journey, had been in attendance on the April 26 sport, seen celebrating alongside fellow actor and Reynolds’ spouse Blake Energetic. The three-0 triumph by the once-fifth-rank Purple Dragons is now the workforce’s third such promotion in as many seasons, which means the membership is now within the Sky Wager Championship League. The feat marks the primary such entry by Wrexham AFC for the reason that 1981-82 season.
In a video shared by the Welsh soccer workforce’s X account, the Welcome to Wrexham actors had been captured having stormed the pitch alongside followers (regardless of police warning forward of kickoff), dumping gallons of Gatorade in celebration. Per the Related Press, the raucous viewers responded in tandem, lighting flares and proudly waving flags.
“It simply appeared like an not possible dream,” Reynolds informed the AP afterward. “We mentioned 5 years in the past our objective was to make it to the Premier League. There have been understandably plenty of laughs, nevertheless it looks like a factor that would make it to fruition proper now.”
Mates, enterprise companions and fellow actors Reynolds and McElhenney purchased Wrexham AFC for $2.5 million again in 2020, with the (then-unlikely) purpose of taking the oldest Welsh soccer workforce (and third-oldest general) from the Nationwide League to the highest rank of English soccer. Although the Ted Lasso jokes proceed to be apropos, the FX docuseries tracks the real-life goals and worries of Wrexham, a working class metropolis in North Wales, U.Okay., as the 2 Hollywood stars information the way forward for its historic membership.
Season 4 of Welcome to Wrexham will premiere Could 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with two episodes and repeats obtainable by way of Hulu the following day.
