Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds. Ben Hider/FX
Proudly owning Wrexham AFC generally causes Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ stress ranges to rise in a really particular means — particularly in relation to the final recreation of their soccer season.
“Fascinated with and speaking about Stockport being the final recreation of the season, I can really feel two styes making their means up and into my eyelids,” McElhenney, 47, mentioned in the course of the Thursday, June 6, episode of Welcome to Wrexham. Reynolds, 47, hit again, saying he would “skip the stye” and provided one other suggestion.
“Simply go proper for the great old style Nineteen Fifties type of stress, simply straight to the chest,” he added whereas pounding on his torso. (McElhenney has revealed in earlier episodes that he usually will get styes in his eye when overly harassed.)
The Wrexham AFC co-owners weren’t main gamers on this week’s Welcome to Wrexham episode, leaving the drama to the gamers. One particularly, James McClean, was fairly a “controversial” participant for the crew to signal — and the crew executives defined why.
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“James McClean is an iconic determine,” Wrexham govt director Humphrey Ker mentioned throughout Thursday’s episode. “When his identify was first talked about to me, my eyebrows shot up {that a} participant like that might be considering coming to us.”
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McClean, 35, had a long-standing soccer profession, even taking part in for groups within the Premier League, earlier than becoming a member of Wrexham in August 2023. After receiving 10 yellow playing cards in the course of the 2023-2024 season, McClean confronted a two-game suspension. He additionally obtained a barrage of hate and “demise threats” on social media after refusing to put on a poppy flower, a logo of help for the British Military.
“I do know what I want to be remembered for, me soccer,” McClean mentioned throughout his confessional. “However actuality tells me that I’ll be seen fairly totally different.”
The athlete additional defined that as a result of he’s from Derry, Eire, the poppy flower symbolizes when the “British occupation in Eire happened” inflicting “damage” and “ache” inside the nation.
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“From once I grew up, that’s how I view it,” he mentioned. “So, that wasn’t going to alter as a result of I got here to England to play soccer.”
Regardless of how the general public feels, McClean famous that his time at Wrexham has been “unbelievable” to date.
This week’s episode additionally provided a serious replace on the Wrexham ladies’s crew, revealing that they’d be taking part in in America for the first-time ever.
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“We’re in a position to make historical past by bringing the Wrexham ladies’s crew to the U.S. this summer time,” McElhenney mentioned, joking, “Which is each thrilling and economically accountable.”
New episodes of Welcome to Wrexham premiere Tuesdays on FX.
