{"id":5564,"date":"2022-08-21T05:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2022-09-15T05:56:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:56:21","slug":"deadline-ycoc-boardwalk-082122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/deadline-ycoc-boardwalk-082122\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Come Out Changed\u201d: Ryan Reynolds Shares Dream Of Buying Welsh Football Club In FX Doc Series \u2018Welcome To Wrexham\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou Come Out Changed\u201d: Ryan Reynolds Shares Dream Of Buying Welsh Football Club In FX Doc Series \u2018Welcome To Wrexham\u2019: <\/h1>\n

While British celebrities have often parted with their money to fund their favourite football club, they at least have a passing knowledge of the off-side rule (you\u2019ll have to look it up, sorry), but Reynolds is unusual in being a Canadian A-lister to do the same, having parted with \u00a32million ($2.36m) to buy British club Wrexham, with fellow actor Rob McElhenney.<\/p>\n

Reynolds told The Times newspaper that, like a real-life Ted Lasso, he had to win over doubtful local fans, and the whole story is told in Welcome to Wrexham, an 18-part documentary series about to debut on FX in the U.S. and Disney+ in the UK.<\/p>\n

The film follows the Hollywood pair transforming the club\u2019s stadium and securing TikTok as kit sponsor \u2013 plus the universal tale of every football fan\u2019s emotional rollercoaster.<\/p>\n

The Deadpool star told The Times: \u201cThe age-old tale of addiction is that you go into it with this casual approach and then you come out completely changed and ravaged. Football has done that to me. For better and for worse. I think they should make some sort of patch for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reynolds\u2019 business partner McElhenney was inspired by watching a Netflix documentary on struggling northern English team Sunderland Till I Die.<\/p>\n

Fans were initially skeptical, believing the mission of the enterprise was to make a documentary, rather than save their team but were won over by the Hollywood pair, apparently, by the appointment of respected manager Phil Parkinson, in a scene shown in the doc.<\/p>\n

Wrexham currently competes in the National League, which is the fifth tier of British football, but the owners are adamant they\u2019re in the project for the long run and now have their eyes on the prize, which in British football talk only means one thing \u2013 the Premier League.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou Come Out Changed\u201d: Ryan Reynolds Shares Dream Of Buying Welsh Football Club In FX Doc Series \u2018Welcome To Wrexham\u2019: While British celebrities have often parted with their money to fund their favourite football club, they at least have a passing knowledge of the off-side rule (you\u2019ll have to look it up, sorry), but Reynolds
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