When Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac became club guardians in 2021 the Premier League was a dream. Now it’s a target
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wo Chewbaccas handed out flyers to passersby. No one making their way towards the Turf batted an eyelid, but then again, for five years now, a touch of Hollywood has become pretty much the norm in Wrexham.
Ninety minutes before kick-off the city’s most famous public house was heaving. Lying in the shadow of the Racecourse Ground, it is the watering hole of choice for locals, and, thanks to landlord Wayne Jones’s prominent role in Welcome to Wrexham, the Netflix documentary following the club’s many fortunes, a tourist attraction.
The way the pub is now – a thriving establishment, packed with happy faces and vibrating with contented nattering – is symbolic of the meteoric shift that has occurred since Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac (previously McElhenney) paid £2m to become the football club’s guardians half a decade ago on Monday.
