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There's so much going

on at the club at the moment,

especially with the documentary.

It's sort of drawn the attention

of a global audience.

I've traveled 250 miles today to see the glorious Wrexham.

We're here because of-- because of the show, yeah.

What's the overall British sentiment?

It's largely positive, unless you're a football fan

of a rival club.

And then you absolutely hate it.

Home fans to my left.

Away fans to my right, please.

The two sets of fans pretty much at each other,

and it does kind of make you the villain

when you've got more money than everyone else in the league.

The Hollywood owner club.

They're a totally different club,

obviously, to when Ryan and Rob bought them.

It's almost like a--

an element to it where it's not pure.

A lot of jealous people out there.

And we'd be the same.

If one of our rivals-- if this was happening to one

of our rivals, we'd be absolutely--you know,

we'd hate it, we'd be gutted.

There's a bit more of an excitement to it

and I think a bit more of a desire to win.

We're right up there on the pedestal.

Everyone wants to beat us.

Everyone wants to knock us down a bit.

♪ Don't forget where you came from ♪

♪ Don't forget what you're made of ♪

♪ The ones who were there ♪

♪ But no one else will care ♪

♪ And don't be afraid to cry now ♪

♪ Even when the world comes crashing in ♪

♪ And don't forget to sing when you win ♪

♪ Don't forget to sing when you win ♪

I'm Mark Griffiths, and I've been

doing commentary for Wrexham since the late 1980s.

Mullin, right side of the box,

cutting inside, running at his man.

It's a left-hand shot!

There you go!

Mullin finds him. Lee hits him!

Oh, my word, that was good.

Well, I'm from Wrexham.

I'm from Hightown in Wrexham.

Grew up here.

Got into football when I was about nine

from my next-door neighbor coming home,

and I'd be playing in the front garden,

and he would have been to the Wrexham game.

Supporting Wrexham's in the blood.

I started off in hospital radio in the late 1980s.

Now, hospital radio has had a really impressive long history

in Wrexham, the town.

The Wrexham Supporters Association

paid for a physical line to be sent

from the racecourse to the Maelor Hospital in Wrexham

purely for football commentary

for patients within a hospital.

That's lovely work. He's got past his man.

And he drills a shot.

Ah, yes!

It was a honey trap, and I was running hospital radio,

the broadcast section, when I was about 21.

And I just purely worked for the club.

And I've been doing it for the club

for quite a long time now, really,

rather than any sort of outside entity.

If you'd come here five years ago,

you would find a fairly depressed town.

You wouldn't find people bragging about Wrexham.

We've lost most of the markets.

We've lost all those big industries.

We've lost most of the breweries.

We've lost the mines.

We were negative enough to feel like

we weren't allowed to have nice things.

It took people from outside to say, actually,

you've got a lot of value, you've got a lot of worth,

there's amazing things here,

to really stoke that awareness within us.

This whole project has been about community.

This whole thing is about the town, not just the club.

No matter what people say about us,

that's 15 long years at our lowest ebb.

I genuinely believe that we will get promoted,

having seen what Rob and Ryan have done,

because they have been transformative.

After some initial struggles to start the season,

we have really settled in and been playing

some fabulous football.

Got this!

Goal. Yes, here we go.

Good. Better.

We have excelled this season by any normal metric.

We've been brilliant.

Ball comes in to the far post.

Ollie Palmer breaks the deadlock for Wrexham.

Played really well. Brilliantly.

We won seven straight games,

scored lots of goals.

Hayden shot to Paul Mullin.

And shot to the top of the table.

To win it for Wrexham, and he scores!

Who else but Paul Mullin?

Just listen to that noise.

They've done it again, as Phil Parkinson's side

goes top of the league.

Top of the league.

Problem is, there's this other bloody team

in our division who are doing the exact same thing.

Notts County went off like a runaway train.

And Notts County are in front.

They score loads of goals.

They're having their best start to a season

in the history of their da-da-da-da.

Everyone's doing brilliantly. They've recruited brilliantly.

They play brilliant football.

They are in every possible way worthy and noble opponents.

And I wish they'd all fall down a manhole and sod off.

Across from Dean, which we'll go through in a minute.

Langstaff--got to mention him because he's got 14 goals,

and we've got to stop him dictating the game.

We face Notts County for tomorrow's game,

who've have had a fantastic season.

You know, we win. They win.

Very rarely does either team drop points.

Um, and, you know, it's been relentless.

We've got to be alive tonight.

If we're tight all over the pitch,

those balls will be on for the wing backs.

The most important thing is that we prepare the team

properly and we just try and stay very focused

on getting the job done.

There's no medals awarded at this stage of the season of,

oh, we've broke this record or have done that.

That doesn't concern me at all.

The only thing I'm focusing on is,

you know, when the last ball is kicked,

that we're the team lifting the trophy.

OK, thank you very much, lads.

See you down there.

Nope, sorry. I'll tell you when.

Haven't been blocking you perfectly.

If you could just-- Oh, yeah, OK.

OK, I'll sit on the couch if you want.

Yeah, all right.

Three, four.

♪ Influential number ten ♪

♪ Beats his man and scores again ♪

♪ Smashed it to the... ♪

It's a song which is a tribute

to our super number ten, Paul Mullin.

♪ And proper working class ♪

Mainly because we thought we'd write the song

because he's one of us.

He's a working-class lad.

He engages so well with the fans,

and the fans can relate to him.

♪ But we've got Mullin, super Paul Mullin ♪

♪ I just don't think you'll understand ♪

♪ He wears the red and white ♪

♪ He's flipping dynamite ♪

♪ We love super Paul Mullin ♪

He's a decent bloke, you know?

Nothing big-headed about him. Seems nice.

I haven't met him myself, but maybe one day we will.

Fingers crossed.

Until the song comes out, anyway.

Yeah.

How have things changed for you

since "Always Sunny in Wrexham,"

the song, since you released it?

It's just gone mad since the documentary, yeah.

We're getting stopped by--

Yeah.

Everybody, you know, children,

people from America, Canada.

To sit on the ground in a seat,

that same seat we sat in for years and years and years,

and all of a sudden, they're playing your song.

We're getting offered bigger gigs,

and we're getting more money.

That's always-- actually getting money.

Not doing it for free.

♪ He's our super Paul Mullin ♪

Notts County away, it's a big game,

top of the table clash, first v. second.

The big games are always the ones you're excited for.

And if we do want to get promoted,

we've got to go and express ourselves.

Hopefully, tonight we can keep on our winning run.

It'll be a tough game. They're a good team.

Obviously, we lost to Chesterfield,

and it was a disappointing performance.

And we can't let that happen tonight.

We've got to go there. We've got to win these games.

We've got to beat all the teams around us.

We know we can beat the teams, you know, around the middle

and the bottom of the table,

but these are the games that we want to be winning.

♪ Here we go, here we go, here we go ♪

Open the door.

Who are we?

- Who are we? - Red Army!

Red Army!

The interest in Wrexham Football Club has

absolutely exploded exponentially

since the takeover.

♪ Less than a mile from the center of town ♪

♪ A famous old stadium's crumbling down ♪

♪ No one's invested so much as a penny ♪

♪ Bring on the Deadpool ♪

♪ And Rob McElhenney ♪

It's astonishing from the football club's point of view.

I mean, honestly, the supporters

of Wrexham at the away games are phenomenal.

We're going for promotion!

You know, we're talking 5,000 supporters to away games.

We get people driving four hours.

2 1/2 hours to go to Dorking.

We've been driving for over an hour.

Long journey for me. Come from Liverpool.

Back to North Wales tonight.

All the way to Southend tomorrow.

Welcome to Meadow Lane for what

is a highly anticipated clash.

It's a fantastic crowd,

over 2,000 Wrexham fans on a work night

going across country.

Wrexham! Wrexham!

Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!

Away games ten years ago,

when they switched off the music when the players came out,

it just dropped to complete silence.

And I think of the contrast between that

and what's now happening.

Got a minute yet. Just start finishing up.

Yeah, OK, then, boys.

Notts County away-- obviously, they're second.

We've gone top after the win at the weekend.

It's an important game, two big clubs at the level.

You know, we had three games against them last year,

and all were keenly contested, as you can imagine.

And this will be no different tonight.

Their key players. Langstaff's got 14 goals.

Smother the bastard's life out of him.

They have got Macauley Langstaff,

who is just a goal machine.

He's different to Mullin.

Mullin gets involved in all sorts

of different aspects of play.

Macaulay Langstaff plays between the posts.

He's purely obsessed with goals.

OK, let's get ready to rumble, boys.

- Come on then, boys. - Here we go.

- Yes. - Come on, son.

Wrexham!

Both sides will be vying

for those two promotion spots this season.

And Phil Parkinson will be really hoping

his side can unlock the Notts County defense.

Wrexham!

Underway here at Notts County.

It's a highly anticipated clash.

It's first place, second.

An excellent atmosphere.

It's across, floated into the area, and first chance.

And a great save from Howard. Great save off the line.

And it was a big header by dapper Langstaff

and a big save by Mark Howard.

Fucking hell, lads.

And in the end, Ollie Palmer pounces Mullin.

And space on the right if he wants to use it.

Palmer's going alone. Come on, Ollie!

Palmer shoots.

Drags it wide.

On the edge of the box.

It's a key to be organized.

One punt to the edge there, they got runners here,

both forwards, and Palmer squares it.

Must be a goal. It is a goal!

And it's Notts County strike first

in the top of the table clash.

And who else with a goal?

Number 15 for the season, Macaulay Langstaff,

in the right place at the right time, and not the start

that Phil Parkinson's side will have wanted.

Early exchanges-- a bit disappointed.

Notts County started the better team.

Their key player got the opportunity,

and he's taken it.

And now there's a lot of work to be done.

Mullins, to Palmer!

Play in there with Jordan.

Hayden looking forwards.

Mullin off Cameron. He's done well.

He's got passing options coming into the box.

But he goes for it himself, and he misses.

What a chance!

Maybe a bit of frustration there.

Tozer saying he was coming if he just held it up.

And he maybe had a point.

Decision-making not quite there so far for Wrexham.

Can't blame Mullin.

Hasn't had an opportunity all half.

Football is about, you know, when the moments come,

you know, taking the key actions in the game.

And we've got the players can hurt them.

But so far, we just didn't take the chances.

What you think so far of the first half?

Terrible. Really?

- Absolutely terrible. - Absolutely.

Just miles off it.

It's 1-0 to Notts County at the break,

while Wrexham haven't been at their best so far.

Some strained efforts as the players exit the field.

Don't--let's not come off the pitch

and moan about it.

We've got to go up a level.

They got the goal early.

There's no one to blame for that.

And it's important there's a buy-in from the group now.

It's not about individuals.

It's about the team working towards that goal.

Honestly, lads, when we've passed it,

we've got a bit of calmness in our play.

We've looked decent.

When we've forced it, we haven't looked as good.

That's how we're going to play.

When you play the big games, you're fucking at work.

And we will carry you off the pitch.

Let's go up a notch. Come on.

Come on, boys, hey? Come on.

- Come on. - Come on.

Come on. We know what we've got to do.

I don't feel that it knocks them if they miss.

I feel it gives them more resolve

to take the next opportunity.

We go to the end, and we stick together.

We fucking stick together.

Welcome back for the second 45 minutes.

Come on, boys. Come on.

Give us that energy, son.

Back to goal. passes to Jones.

Yes, move!

They're off-fucking-side.

Fucking time you run.

Brilliant football by Wrexham,

but the flag is up.

Wrexham 0, Notts County 1.

Isn't it typical?

We have the most remarkable record-breaking season

in history.

Someone else does as well at the same time as us.

They are remarkable adversaries.

The more successful we are and the more of a threat

we become to other teams and their ambitions, you know,

the more every team we play

puts on their best performance of the season.

I imagine lots of people watching this game

and probably willing us on to fail.

Everybody wants to see Deadpool in the mud.

They want to see Rob McElhenney disappointed.

They want to bloody the nose

of the big fancy Hollywood jerkoffs.

And, you know, that's just an extra

challenge for us to deal with.

Well, Wrexham's hot streak

has suffered a bit of a cool-down

with a defeat against Notts County.

A bit of a tough pill to swallow for the droves of fans

who made the long trip to support the Reds,

but one thing's for sure.

Supporters of other clubs around the National League

are absolutely loving it.

Sports is such a-- is so tribal in nature that

you're going to have supporters of other clubs looking at this

club and wanting to cut us down

at every turn simply in support of their own club.

And they're not necessarily inclined to look

at the situation objectively.

That's the fun of sports.

Then, of course, there's also cynics out there

and people who just hear the story.

And they're just sort of cynical

without really looking into it,

and they can fuck all the way off.

I think it's perfectly acceptable

to root against, say, Rob and I.

Oh, yeah, the Hollywood idiots definitely deserve it.

I'm just going to be really, really truthful about what

I think about AFC Wrexham.

But I don't see how you can root against a town

that has been through so much.

This is a town that have been through quite a lot.

This dream of being back in the Football League,

it's not an entirely greedy dream, is it?

If someone wants to come in, and they want to romanticize

this town and say these positive things

about this town you're so proud of

and put it on the map,

I'm not going to be the one to be bitter and jealous

about that just because I'd be so

desperately wishing it would happen to my football club.

Are Wrexham going up this season?

I don't know how you don't root

for a town like Wrexham.

See, like this is our relationship, writ large.

I'm telling people to fuck off.

And he's saying, well, hold on a second.

Now maybe there's a different way of looking at this.

Maybe if we can welcome more people.

I agree with your assessment too.

I mean, they can fuck right off.

But I--yeah, like, I'm fascinated by how

that sort of conversation happens.

- Yeah, it's interesting. - He's so nice.

- He's so nice. - Not too nice.

- No, not nice--kind. - No, no.

Nice is in the South of France.

Nice. He's very Nice.

He's very Nice.

And you hear people say they've got a lot

of money pumped into the club.

That's a good thing for a lower league, you know?

They're not the big boys. So I think that's a good thing.

Every club at this level needs an advantage.

It's a hard league to be in.

So if you can get out of it, well done.

I mean, yes, they've got a bit of money.

They're using it well.

They're doing what they should do.

Well, obviously, I think everyone would want that sort

of investment in their club.

But, you know, we'll look forward

to building Dagenham in the future as well, so...

You know, I wish I could win the EuroMillions.

Then I'd do the same here.

Taking an honest look at the people of Wrexham

and seeing that they probably look a lot like you,

and they probably live a very similar life to you,

and, yes, sure, on the field may be your adversaries.

But in real life, you're kind of on the same team.

Much respect to Wrexham for being

where they are right now--

exactly the same position as us.

Good luck to them, you know?

Yeah, good luck to them. That's what I say.

Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!

From the top!

I mean, good luck to them. Good luck to them.

♪ We've got Mullin, super Paul Mullin ♪

♪ Just don't think you understand ♪

♪ He wears the red and white ♪

♪ He's freaking dynamite ♪

♪ We love super Paul Mullin ♪

- Thank you. - You like it?

- Well, you're the man. - Like it a lot.

- He hasn't hit us. - He hasn't hit us.

- Thanks, Paul. - Paul, thank you.