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So the King of England called.

♪ God save the King

♪ Long live the King

My wife and I are absolutely delighted

to be with you in Wrexham today

to celebrate your becoming a city.

- That's the king of-- - Yeah.

Yeah.

Of-of England.

A little earlier,

I had the opportunity to see

one of the other wonders of Wrexham,

namely the football club,

which is busy putting Wrexham on the map

as never before.

It was a bit weird, really,

when you think about it.

You got two Hollywood actors,

you've got the royal family, and Wrexham.

How do you even put them together?

I-I have no idea.

♪ Don't forget where you came from ♪

♪ Don't forget what you're made of ♪

♪ The ones who were there

♪ When no one else would care

♪ Don't be afraid to cry now

♪ Even when the world comes crashing in ♪

♪ Don't forget to sing when you win ♪

♪ Don't forget to sing when you win ♪

ROB McELHENNEY: Previously on "Welcome to Wrexham"...

We bought the world's third-oldest football club

and oldest international stadium.

ROB McELHENNEY: Both were in need of some... attention.

Rob's being polite.

They were in the shitter.

They had spent 14 years

in the fifth tier of English football,

but they had a ton of potential.

ROB McELHENNEY: And a ton of very opinionated fans.

Hopefully that money gonna pay the manager off.

ROB McELHENNEY: So we went and got this guy.

You're telling me that's not a fucking pen?

ROB McELHENNEY: He's very enthusiastic.

We look like a team

of fucking fatty fucking footballers!

ROB McELHENNEY: We also brought in this guy.

I really love goal-scoring.

ROB McELHENNEY: He was very expensive, but it paid off.

We also brought in this guy...

Ollie Palmer puts Wrexham ahead!

He has many female fans in addition to the men.

ROB McELHENNEY: Maybe it's because he never keeps

his shirt on.

What else? Um...

It's too dry, innit?

ROB McELHENNEY: We lost a ton of money on the field.

About £200,000. - Fuck.

This is just the most surreal year ever.

This is Wayne. He owns the bar

that's literally attached to the stadium

and is even older than the team.

Not Wayne. The bar.

ROB McELHENNEY: Oh, uh, yeah, the end of last season,

uh, this bullshit happened.

I guess, uh...

I guess we gotta show it? Do we have to show it?

Yeah, just-just show it.

Currently playing

outside of the Football League,

desperate to make sure

they have one more to play next Sunday.

Here we go.

And the kickoff is taken.

ROB McELHENNEY: You know what?

Let's just fast-forward to the end.

We lose 5-4, everybody's hearts are broken,

and we have to stay in the National League

for a 15th straight season.

This was not in the Hollywood script...

for Wrexham.

Why do we do this to ourselves?

Why can't we like something like knitting?

Why do we have--why do we have to like football?

- Knitting? - It's just--

- Yeah. - Well, yeah.

What's amazing for us is the Hollywood owners,

when we first heard it, we all thought it was a joke.

What they've done is, they've given

the whole community of North Wales such a boost.

We sold out 24,000 Wrexham shirts this year.

We could've sold a lot more,

but the suppliers couldn't meet demand.

Now, you can't go anywhere

where there isn't a Wrexham shirt

and pride to be a Wrexham fan.

Everybody's walking round in the park with them on,

our team--the jackets or anything,

and you just talk to one another.

We're just on the ride of a lifetime.

People here are excited to see Rob and Ryan,

and we're here excited to see

the people who we recognize from the documentary.

Yeah.

A hell of a lot of people recognize me,

and I've even signed shirts.

I have! I told you, mate.

I went-- I went to the Racecourse.

I was signing-- I was signing shirts

for these kids from Australia.

We're starting a little community...

Of Wrexham fans in Portugal.

Yay!

I'm from Brazil.

I'm being--I'm in Wrexham just today

to watch the match

with the people in The Turf.

I speak to some people overseas in America,

and it's like, um--

and it's like they know about Wrexham now,

which is strange, 'cause I always had to explain Wales

'cause they thought it was an animal.

Everyone just is better off for it, really.

Probably one of the best things to happen in a long time.

You know, we're getting hundreds and hundreds

of tourists, not just ourselves,

but the restaurants, the Fat Boar,

all these places-- you know, the hotels.

I mean, our business has doubled,

practically, if not more so.

Call this Poppy Syndrome?

Sorry, guys. That's all right.

Oh, there's tourists walking in, yeah.

Sorry, guys. It's 1:00 today. We're just doing some...

Oh. Shoot--yeah.

1:00, I'm afraid. That's all right.

Thank you. I'm just doing some

filming for the documentary. I do apologize.

Yeah, no problem at all.

We'll be bang open for 1:00.

Sounds good. Thank you.

Sorry, guys. Take care.

See what I mean? Two minutes past 12:00.

Americans.

They're lovely, though.

They're always like, "Eh, no worries."

The stakes are higher this year

than they were last year.

Hopefully, we'll get promoted this season.

I can see them getting promoted, to be fair.

The only choice for them,

the only realistic choice for them,

is to go up this year in league.

Just getting out of this awful league has been so--

oh, it's been terrible.

If we were promoted, it would mean

the absolute world to the fans, to the club, to the town.

So for anyone who needs a quick reminder, of course,

Wrexham are currently in the National League.

That's the fifth tier of English football.

Now, we call that non-league football.

Everything from the fifth tier down is organized football

but is non-league.

Everything above, that's league football.

So that's League Two, which is the fourth tier,

League One, which is the third tier,

the Championship, second tier,

and the Premier League, which is the top tier.

Now, teams can move between these different tiers

via promotion or relegation.

So promotion tends to mean bigger crowds,

bigger prize money, bigger television money,

bigger interest, um,

and relegation means the opposite.

We've put more than a small amount of money into this

with the objective of getting out of this division

and getting into a higher league.

Uh, player contracts being handled at the moment.

Remember this beauty?

We're about to start tearing down the Kop

so we can build a new stand there,

which really is gonna be a lynchpin

of everything that we're trying to do here.

All-in physically, all-in financially,

and all-in emotionally.

Come on, you reds!

We're heavily invested in building this club,

the stadium itself,

and if we don't get promoted this year,

the club is completely, totally,

and wholly unsustainable.

For us to achieve promotion, we obviously have

to put the best possible team on the pitch,

and that means investing in high-quality players.

♪ The bigger the boom, the bigger the bang ♪

The playoff semifinal defeat

at the end of last season was deflating

for everybody at the club, but we didn't sulk.

We just stayed committed to the process,

to the plan that we had.

Looking forward, you think,

"This group of players together for a full season

should be able to get us promoted."

♪ Honeys show up at the front ♪

♪ Honeys show up at the rear

♪ Because one, Philly's got the shakes ♪

Good. Show me your finish.

Yes! There you go. Got ya.

Good. Finish!

♪ All right

♪ Four, Phillies want more soul ♪

We needed to make sure

that the squad had more strength and depth.

♪ Alakazoom, alakazam, ala-boom-boom, damn ♪

♪ I got the biggest, the baddest ♪

♪ The fattest for joints are on point ♪

We signed quite a lot of players from higher divisions,

obviously to get that extra bit of quality.

You need players on eights and nines out of ten.

♪ Chiki-chiki, bang-bang, we love you ♪

Players who understand what they're coming into.

♪ Tell your mom and daddy ♪

♪ That we love them too

♪ 'Cause the baby got back and she got it going on ♪

Benefits of that are obvious.

You got great players from a higher level.

The potential pitfalls, though, are huge.

You know, our wage bill is

gonna be the largest in the division.

The money we've spent on transfers will be

more than anyone else in the division.

Um, and we need to get that promotion in order to,

you know, offset that cost, effectively.

So, you know, the challenge here is,

if it doesn't all go to plan,

we're left holding a very expensive baby.

And if our goal from the very beginning

was to--not just to win,

not just to help bring some hope and optimism to the town,

but to build a sustainable business,

something that can continue long after we're gone,

for us to put them in a position

where, if they don't get promoted this year,

that they are no longer sustainable in any real way,

is, uh--is counter to what our original promises were.

So it's really ratcheted up the pressure

not just for us, I think,

but for the players on the field,

for the people in the community.

This year, we have to get promoted.

ROB McELHENNEY: From a financial perspective,

if we do not get promoted this year, we are fucked.

Fuck. Yeah.

Yeah.

Ah!

Four, five.

- Fucking hell. - Last one.

Don't go dis--

- Ah! - Awesome.

Mate.

Fucking can't describe it.

Literally cannot describe it.

Never had any pain like it, ever.

I'll just put my body anywhere,

do you know what I mean, to do what I need to do.

To be fair, throughout the whole of my career

until this year, I've never had any concussion

or knockout, and then I've had three in the year now.

That was a Bromley game away when I got knocked out,

my first knockout.

Substitution of James. Jordan Davies.

The ball goes through to Coulson, Lainton...

with an excellent save, and Lainton again--

and the ball's gone over the bar.

Rob Lainton puts his body on the line every single game.

And this is a serious one for Lainton.

And looks in some pain.

And we wish Rob a speedy recovery.

Well, I was in every day from Monday to Friday.

I'm sat in a machine where

it just bend my wrist up and down

for, like, six weeks.

Push, push, push.

- Oh, mate. - Last one.

Ooh, ah.

One more, one more. Got two more.

Last two.

- One more. - Oh, mate.

It's when you come up.

It was a kick in the teeth, really,

'cause I think I'd played 34 games of the season.

Coming to the crunch end,

and obviously, the injury happened.

And then you've got to watch from the sidelines

and you feel a bit--

you know, I don't know how to describe it.

You can't--

you're there, but you're not there, in a way,

so you're not feeling the ups and the downs

and you can't help,

so you just feel like a bit of waster, really.

It's just a tool to give him some friction

to try and move a few things about and desensitize a touch.

The issue Rob has had is, after surgery,

he was in his cast for almost ten weeks.

If we left this for 12 months or so...

the body's real clever,

'cause it knows that it's healed,

so it'll stop trying to heal itself.

And obviously, he wants to get back playing.

And with his contract situation as well,

we need to get him back on--on the training pitch.

I'm out of contract in the summer.

So this could be my last season if I can't get back

to where I was at the current time

of when I was playing in the team.

Obviously, my contract now runs out in the summer,

so I've got now until then

to get back and prove myself again.

We had Rob who was injured.

Christian Dibble.

Then he got injured in pre-season.

Which was-- that was a nightmare for him.

Think he dislocated his knee,

so there was a bit of turbulence with that.

The goalkeeper situation is difficult,

because, you know, I had a good chat with Dibbs.

The time is right for him to go and be someone's number one.

And unfortunately, he's got injured in preseason himself.

Rob has got a long-term injury,

so we brought Mark in.

Mark Howard is a very experienced goalkeeper.

Been around, played in the Championship,

knows it, which I like.

I like a senior goalkeeper

just because there's an experience there

and a calmness.

Mark Howard, goalkeeper.

I turned pro at 18.

I'm 36, nearly 37 now, so close to 18, 19 years.

Last season at Carlisle,

I ended up signing ten games into the season,

trying to help them stay in the league.

Thrown to the Carlisle United fans,

it's a save by Mark Howard.

I end up having a very successful season.

Went on to get quite a few awards.

What a save from Mark Howard!

I'd worked with Phil before.

We'd had a really successful season in League One

with Bolton getting promoted, and even the season after.

Phil's a dead honest manager.

He'll tell you how it is,

and if things aren't going to plan, he tells you.

Once I found out that he was interested,

it was a no-brainer for me.

And at this stage in my career

and what Wrexham are trying to achieve,

I've got this opportunity.

Something really exciting to be part of.

So it's the start of the season and time to see

how the squad looks with the new additions.

Eastleigh. Absolutely must-win game.

So excited!

Who's your favorite? - Paul Mullin.

Sellout crowd again today for Eastleigh,

which is just phenomenal.

Play with physicality, intensity,

and fucking aggression.

The ball goes in the box,

we're fucking aggressive.

Challenges all over the pitch.

We are fucking aggressive.

And when we fucking go, we fucking go together.

Let's go, then! Come on, now, let's go!

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Wrexham.

We've got to do it this year. This year is the year.

Ooh, start of the season!

Getting that tingle. Yes, everyone!

Ooh, it's exciting. It's exciting.

It's odd. I was saying beforehand

that every other season I've watched Wrexham,

I just have a feeling

somewhere between hope and fear.

Yeah.

Now for the first time ever,

I actually feel expectation.

I expect us to win this league.

Finally, we get going.

The ball's laid back to Ben Tozer.

Palmer is after it.

Floated in to the near post. Howard comes!

And he drops it!

And it's 1-nil to Eastleigh!

He's furious. He thinks he's been fouled.

It looked to me like

he just got underneath the ball, to be honest.

He did, yeah. Back to the ball.

And then he pawed at it with one hand.

Feeding it back, first time cross by McFadzean.

Oh! Looking for Forde!

Defender heads it! Oh, no! And it's headed over the bar.

Another incredibly close escape.

It's swung in towards the near post.

Palmer! Just wide. Ooh.

Oh, he got up so well there,

but tried to put it inside the far post.

Young seeks the near post, Palmer flicks it on!

Oh! Just wide.

Oh, that was so close.

The ref, he blows his whistle.

And the fans boo, but I think it's fair to say

the booing is reserved for the official

and the opponents. Yes.

Wrexham trailing 1-nil up against Eastleigh.

51st minute.

Elliot Lee on for his debut

to provide a bit more attacking threat for Wrexham.

Palmer is taking on his man.

Got the stepovers. That's nice.

Backheels it, Lee hits it!

Yeah!

Yeah! What a goal!

Mullin helps it in. Lee, six yards out.

Heads it! Yeah!

What a player! What a player!

So that's it!

We starts as we mean to go on--

with a win.

Elliot Lee, absolutely immense.

Second half, Elliot Lee changed the game.

What a signing. What a player.

What a fucking player.

Elliot Lee, yeah.

Is this the first time

you've actually been trained in etiquette?

This is the--well, I did read--breezy read...

Okay. - But I read

"Tiffany's Table Manners for Teens" when I was young.

[laughing] Okay. Uh, yeah,

Yeah. Okay, all right.

So I think we should start with the beginning.

We went to monarchy boot camp.

ROB McELHENNEY: Mm-hmm.

It's like the military,

except your pinky's always up.

Everything begins with the first impression.

So what do you think people notice

that exudes something special about you?

Smell. He smells. Exudes confidence.

He smells great.

Well, before they can smell you,

they notice something physically.

Oh. What do you think it is?

- Posture. - Posture.

There we go.

Okay, so let's stand up for a moment.

Let's not. If we may.

Let's not, 'cause--but we've established we're both tall.

Yeah, so Rob and Ryan are very excited

about the King coming.

Giddy, you might say.

And, you know, I think they recognize,

you know, the significance of having the monarch

visiting Wrexham.

We are trying to get

£20 million worth of Kop funding

out of the UK government.

18 months, two years.

A lot of work has gone into

lining up all the pieces of the puzzle

to try and get this funding,

and that will give us an extra 5,500 seats.

It'll also give us a stadium

that is deemed to be of international standards

so we can bring Welsh football back to the Racecourse.

It's the biggest

and most expensive piece of the endeavor.

When you sit down, do not flop.

And when you place your hands, you are going to literally

just place them right here on your knees.

Okay? And that's it.

But I just want to see it.

And by the way, was I leaning back in the chair?

No, I was sitting up with good posture.

Are you ready? I think so.

Okay. Just casually walking. Chin up.

- Good. Yeah, there we go. - Mm.

Okay. Turn around. - Oh, that's a nice chair.

You know where the chair is.

Good.

Nice. The control.

I feel like the thigh muscles were working, right?

I feel like a serial killer.

ROB McELHENNEY: Yeah, you look like you're ready to pounce.

Yeah.

UK government and the monarchy

are closely aligned in many respects,

and so getting support from the King is critical

for the Kop stand as well as our future goals and plans.

ROB McELHENNEY: Yeah. that's so good. That's great.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Nice spine distance.

Okay, beautiful. Okay. Lovely.

And now, you may--

ROB McELHENNEY: I don't stand, I rise.

Exactly.

Now, I don't need to teach you gentlemen

how to curtsy because you're men.

However, about the bow. Mm-hmm.

So it is a certain inclination of the head.

It's literally from the neck down.

ROB McELHENNEY: Mm-hmm.

Let's just see what that looks like.

Okay. Okay, good.

- I'm having--I--I-- - How you feel?

Yeah, I think I am gonna have a hard time with this.

Okay. - Yeah, yeah.

I can see the structure is hurt--is bothering you.

It's not the structure.

It's the idea of bowing to somebody.

It triggers something.

- I want you to-- - Hi!

I want you to feel that rage...

- Oh, hello. Welcome, welcome. - Coming in the wrong way.

- No, that's okay. - When we're working.

- Hello. How are you? - Welcome, welcome.

Let me see, though, the two pumps and release.

Oh, by the way, also, gentlemen...

Two pumps and release.

Should we also at the same time get--

It doesn't have to be in unison.

- Yeah. Say it. Yeah. - Two...

Two pumps. - ROB McELHENNEY: Release.

That was an exchange.

Oh, wait, let me see the-- with the inclination.

How do you do?

Jolly good.

You know, I'm very impressed by their diligence

in going to see an etiquette coach before meeting the King.

Um, no one asked me if I needed to see an etiquette coach.

So I hope I don't blow it.

Do you remember the phrase, gentlemen?

Your majesty, may I present?

No. When you actually meet,

there's that other formal phrase

that I taught you that we're forgetting.

You get a little petit four-- extra one if you get it right.

ROB McELHENNEY: A petite what?

Come over here so we can see it.

We can see it there. Have a seat.

So what is this?

So this is one of the shirts from our time.

Seven season, we were sponsors, uh,

for back of shirt, as they called it.

We carried that on for seven seasons.

And then, obviously, the last season that we were sponsors

was the first season of the takeover.

Felt as if we were doing something right,

that we were helping the club, and I always said

that when we had this on the back of the shirt,

that was--you know, I never got to play for them,

but to, uh--to have that on there, you know,

as our company was brilliant.

Getting emotional now.

My name's Phil Salmon. I'm 64 years of age now.

Been supporting Wrexham AFC

since probably about the age of seven.

This is one of the original Kop barriers

from, obviously, the Racecourse Ground,

the oldest international stadium in the world.

They were taken down when the Kop was no longer in use.

So the Kop used to be standing only.

That was the reason for these barriers,

to stop any sort of crush

if fans move forward too quickly or whatever.

And so fans that used to stand on the Kop

were given the opportunity to purchase them.

And the money was used for charities.

And--'cause we were doing 'em on a voluntary basis,

we'd normally do them at night,

you know, after we'd finished work.

So I'd, say, spend an hour on each barrier.

I very luckily met Phil through Dixie.

And Phil mentioned that he might have a barrier

from the old Kop at Wrexham Football Club

that he may be able to donate to Nightingale House Hospice

to see whether we could raise vital money for the hospice.

This is where people stood behind

watching the football matches in the '70s and '80s

and gave you lots of abuse if you missed a goal.

Don't put that in. Don't put that in. No.

So please keep your eyes peeled,

because this is coming on the market,

and it will be sold to the highest bidder.

Brilliant. - Amazing.

If it wasn't for the likes of Phil,

we wouldn't be able to have the opportunity

to raise the valuable money that we need.

I've always thought that, you know,

if you can do something nice,

it gives a lot of people a lot of pleasure, you know?

And I would like to think that

if I was in somebody else's shoes,

that I would look forward to somebody doing that for me.

So yeah, just loads of history.

So to be involved with the club

and see where it is now is just phenomenal.

ROB McELHENNEY: Lovely.

So as I was saying, the line--

the line's here-- the line's here.

So once you're at the line,

you and Rob are gonna go

that way with the Queen Consort.

Yeah.

Yes.

Your Majesty.

I am-- no, I'm from Philadelphia,

but I live in Los Angeles.

So it's actually quite warm.

This is Rob, our goalkeeper.

What about you? This is Rosie.

I live quite close.

I didn't, but I moved closer just to be with Wrexham.

So Kyle travels.

Moments of great import are happening.

At the same time, you know, this week,

we've obviously got a massive game against a big rival, um,

and, you know, the other thing for us this week is obviously,

you know, we're looking forward to getting, uh,

some kind of decision about

the Levelling Up Fund, hopefully, which is, you know,

the money from the UK government

that we're hoping to help use to pay for the Kop.

The Kop is still there. Mm-hmm.

We were supposed to have knocked it down months ago.

And we keep getting emails and updates saying,

"Well, it'll be next week.

Maybe the week after, the week after."

Where are we with the Levelling Up Fund?

Let's talk about that. Mm-hmm.

The Levelling Up Fund, we are told

that the decision is next week.

Now--

We have been told the decision is next week...

Twice. - Twice.

Yeah.

Over many, many, many months, let alone weeks.

Absolutely. - Okay.

The club has an application

into the Levelling Up Fund,

which is operated by UK government.

We're asking them to contribute, via the council,

£20 million to actually build a new stand.

Mr. Speaker, if you live in North Wales

and want to watch international sport,

you'll have to travel four hours to Cardiff or Swansea.

Shocking.

The Wrexham Racecourse with its historic Kop stand

offers an excellent opportunity to level up access to sport.

Hear, hear!

Well, there could be no better campaigner

for the interests of Wrexham sport.

I will do what I can, Mrs. Speaker,

but I'm sure that Wrexham has every chance

of success in the future.

ROB McELHENNEY: The truth of the matter is,

if we don't get that funding, we can't build the Kop.

If we don't get the Levelling Up Fund,

we have to go and find a public sector contribution

from somewhere else.

Nowhere near as attractive or quick.

Okay. Oh, this is quick?

Thus far, we've been moving-- this is quick?

Trust me. This is efficient. Not wrong.

Ugh.

I feel like after the show's aired--

in the UK, I notice that people were laughing

about how much I was whinging.

Whinging is my favorite British term now.

That I was whinging about how slow everything is,

because I guess they're just so used to it

from a bureaucratic standpoint.

But good Lord.

When the stand is built, the level of craftsmanship,

the quality, the work that's gone into it

means that it should work and operate

and it'll go the way it should do

and none of the door handles should fall off

like everything does in my house in LA, because--

ROB McELHENNEY: So what you're suggesting to me

is that because of this level of bureaucracy,

that there's a certain level of care and craftsmanship

that goes into it that just doesn't exist

in the United States of America.

- Yes. - I reject that wholesale

on behalf of the American people.

Well, congratulations.

However, this is happening in Wales,

so you've got no choice.

- Yeah. - Okay.

All right, so we'll know next week.

We'll know next week.

The delays in funding put us at risk

of falling behind schedule,

so we need to have the new Kop built

for the 2024-2025 season.

So we decided to pay for the demolition

of the old Kop ourselves and began tearing it down.

Oh, very fond memories, you know?

My folks moved across the road when I was 11,

and I was told then strictly not to cross the road.

But as an eagle-eyed 11-year-old,

the floodlights were on.

I remember the game well. I think it was Blackpool.

And we scored a last-minute winner to win 4-3.

And between the lights and the last-minute euphoria,

I was absolutely hooked from that minute on.

And that was in the Kop, so yeah,

just very fond memories.

Um, mixed emotions, really.

One of excitement for the future.

But obviously, there's a little bit of, um--

a little bit of sadness,

you know, mixed in there because not only I,

thousands of people, you know,

people that are no longer with us as well

have got memories, you know, in that stand.

I think the Kop was obviously iconic.

And it's, like, a little bit like the Turf.

It's just sort of the fabric of the football club,

in many ways, that--

obviously, friends have come together

and I've stood on there as a youngster.

But then as a player,

to look out onto a full Kop was pretty special.

Neil Roberts equalized

from the penalty spot.

You know, that's something nice

that I'll always have to keep hold of

and, you know, that--

that moment becomes even more special

now it's no longer there.

Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!

Well, out of the ashes, you know, will, yeah,

arise a new Kop.

Goodbye, old friend, as Rob said.

Yes, yeah. Goodbye, old friend.

Start of the season, there's a few teams

you expect to be up there.

And Chesterfield, Notts County, Boreham Wood,

you know, you look at those teams,

and they've been building squads for a while

to make challenges to get out this league

and, like ourselves, haven't found it easy.

You'd expect them to challenge again.

You know, there's absolutely no doubt

Chesterfield were going to be

one of the contenders for promotion.

And obviously, going there so early

was always going to be a challenge.

It's an early season test,

and we'll know more about the team

when we come out of the game.

Let's get on to predictions.

I'm gonna go for a nervy 1-niller 'cause I just love

shoving it up those Derbyshire fellows.

I'm gonna go for 2-nil.

I'm gonna go same as last year.

Brilliant. So we're gonna be

top of the league by the end of this.

You heard it here first.

Arrived in Chesterfield. Massive game.

Need to be taking points off people like this.

Up the town. Come on, boys!

Hold onto your hats for the start.

Quite the power from the adrenaline-fueled

atmosphere we got anyway.

I mean, I hope you can hear us

in this massive early season match.

If you're gonna win the title,

you've gotta take points off your rivals.

Chesterfield are serious rivals.

It's the first time I've gone into a season

actually expecting success.

♪ Yeah, I'm like a stampede ♪

♪ Man, I come through like a banshee ♪

♪ And there's only one thing that I can't see ♪

♪ That's a plan B

♪ 'Cause I got tunnel vision

♪ I won't never give in, yeah

♪ And I ain't playin' with 'em, nah ♪

♪ I'm just tryna win it all, yeah ♪

♪ They broke the mold when they made me ♪

♪ So cold, man, I can't freeze it ♪

♪ I'm the Loch Ness, I'm a monster ♪

♪ I'm the one that they ain't believe ♪

♪ I'm the one that you can't see ♪

♪ Whoo, yeah

♪ Try to hold me down but I break free ♪

♪ You can't stop me now

Lee on the left-hand side

scurries forward as well.

Nice ball to Mullin, heads behind and turns,

heads it just wide.

♪ You can't take me down

♪ I'm on another level

Banks switches beautifully to King

on the right-hand side halfway line.

Palmer gets across quickly. It's pinged inside.

And the return pass is a good one.

King hits the goal line, puts it inside Palmer.

Gets to the 6-yard box.

It's goal! Chesterfield take the lead!

Wow!

Chesterfield score in the tenth minute.

King with a superb run.

And now it's the Chesterfield fans making all the noise.

Goalkeepers make mistakes all the time.

It's just that we get punished for it,

and it normally leads to a goal.

I think it's one of them things that, with the weather,

we just didn't start that game well enough.

Lays it out to McFadzean.

Early cross, easy for the keeper.

Wrexham haven't quite got their rhythm back

since going behind.

Asante's free on the left-hand side

as Wrexham try and recover. Tozer.

Wrexham are really, really pinned back here.

Living up towards Bellinger's.

King gets it back, turns it over the top

and Tozer will have to chase this one.

He'll--

vey coolly plays to Howard,

who's under pressure, and he's lost the ball!

He's outside the box. The shot comes in!

2-nil! Oh, dear me.

That got us.

I don't think that was a wise place to play a back pass.

How on Earth have Wrexham managed to go two down?

I mean, that's a disaster.

I think I wasn't--ah.

It was tough because of--

it was the pressure from the year before.

We needed to start off the season so well.

Obviously, I tried to take a back pass in

and then just took a bad touch.

That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

We came up against a team who started

very quickly on the night,

and when you can see two poor goals--

and it always gives any team a lift.

And yeah, we gave ourselves a mountain to climb.

Wrexham really needs

to push on in this second half now.

Chesterfield outperforming the Red Dragons

on their trip over here to Derbyshire.

Phil Parkinson's side just couldn't get

into their rhythm or their groove.

That's the full time whistle that's blown.

This was a frustrating day for Wrexham

who, in front of a superb following,

have not been able to come out with a result at all.

It's a real disappointment

early in the season when we were arriving,

full of optimism, thinking,

this is where we make a statement.

You know, we knew we'd put a squad together

that was good enough to get promotion.

Us knowing it and them doing it

are two vastly different things.

Yeah, unfortunately, I can't work out

how to do it on my phone, which is a bit of a blow.

If you can pin yourself, Ryan,

and then record your screen.

Uh, does anyone know--sorry-- how to record my screen?

I'm not quite sure.

Yeah, it should be down below in the center.

If you just click on--

there's a little record button.

Oh, yeah, I think it's recording.

It says you're recording. You're good.

Okay, great.

Okay, cool.

So I just got a message from--

well, regrettably, a media outlet

that's heard the news

that the Levelling Up Fund bid application

from the council has been unsuccessful.

So the Levelling Up Fund bid's not been accepted.

18 months worth of work

trying to get the funding for the Kop

has just gone up in smoke.

Great.

We can't grow the club

unless we can get more people into the stadium.

We've got a three-sided ground now

with a Kop that's nearly on the floor.

Yeah.

Is this, like, a political thing?

Probably the Conservative government don't believe

they'll hold the Wrexham seat this time at the next election,

regardless of how much money they put

into the local football club.

Still, it's a huge problem.

I mean, this is a cornerstone of our long-term Wrexham plans.

I mean, this is huge.

We've taken a blow, but we're gonna get back up again.

And we're not out with this fight yet.

I don't have £20 million lying around.

I don't--I don't know if Ryan does,

but I don't think so.

He might say he does, but I would talk to Blake,

'cause I bet you he fucking doesn't.

Uh, what is it that we can do to help see this through?

Just the three of you promise me this, okay?

I'm low at the moment. Let just me be the lowest.

We'll find a--

We'll find a-- we'll find a solution

because we are gonna need to think outside the box

and do things differently, so...

Uh, I'll sell one of my children.

Oh, well, you've got so many of them.

Yeah, you got a bunch of 'em now.

I have four.

I mean, I don't even know their names.

You can't possibly--you can't possibly need all of them.

Oh, you've brightened my day.

You've brightened my day up, you three.

Good. Um, okay--

Is there anything else we need to discuss

besides the fact that the sky is falling?

Is there anything-- is there anything else?

All right. Bye, guys.

Cheers. Talk to you later, mate.