For the previous 5 years, Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac have owned Wrexham AFC, the Welsh soccer membership, with their exploits chronicled within the FX collection Welcome to Wrexham.
The membership has had a exceptional turnaround since, securing league promotions, bringing in blue chip sponsors, and making the leisure titans the toast of the city (inhabitants of about 45,000). It additionally delivered a world fanbase to what had been a small regional soccer staff.
But there’s one factor that the pair has not executed with the membership, till now: Call a dwell recreation.
Mac and Reynolds will co-host a dwell broadcast for the Wrexham AFC vs. Swansea City match on March 13, dwell from the STōK Cae Ras (the racecourse the place Wrexham hosts its matches). The particular, known as Live from Wrexham with Rob & Ryan, will characteristic unscripted match evaluation and real-time reactions from Mac and Reynolds alongside Sky Sports presenter David Prutton.
The particular will stream within the U.S. on Paramount+ and on Sky Sports within the U.Okay.
“As with our decision to take over Wrexham five years ago, we genuinely have no idea how this is going to go, but we will give it our best,” Mac and Reynolds stated in an announcement. “Neither of us have called a sporting event of any variety, let alone a sport we basically learned the rules of five years ago. Either way, it will be another unpredictable day at the Racecourse and we can’t wait. We’re grateful to our partners at the EFL and Sky Sports, the latter of which we hope is ready with the bleep button.”
“From the very beginning of Rob and Ryan’s ownership, we have strived as a Club to do things differently,” added Michael Williamson, CEO of Wrexham. “The first-ever Live from Wrexham with Rob & Ryan, together with Sky Sports and the EFL, continues on this theme and allows Wrexham fans globally yet another unique way of following our match with Swansea in a world where sport and entertainment collide.”
