McElhenney says he bought the team to “bring hope to a town that had fallen on hard times.' The FX series Welcome to Wrexham chronicles the team and its owners and fans.
McElhenney says he bought the team to “bring hope to a town that had fallen on hard times." The FX seriesiframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5003513/g-s1-4127" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">In 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, actor, writer and producer Rob McElhenney decided that he wanted to buy a sports team.
“ is, at its core, a love letter to working-class people,” he says. “I wanted people to fall in love with the town of Wrexham. But most importantly, I wanted them to see themselves in the town of Wrexham.”On the European football system, which allows teams to move to higher ranked leagues depending on their record
There are leagues in the English football system who are made up of people who have full-time jobs, who just get together on Saturdays and play football. And in theory, you could take one of those teams, invest enough capital and build enough infrastructure to take that team all the way from that league — maybe it's league nine, maybe it's league 20 — all the way up to the Premier League.I thought of Ryan because we were friends. We had never met in person, but we were friends via text.
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