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Thore Haugstad

How Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney Launched the Rise of Wrexham

Few fans would have thought four years ago that a tiny Welsh team from the fifth tier would now find itself in the Championship. | Kya Banasko/Getty Images

On a September evening in 2020, Rich Fay walked out of a vegan restaurant called Shrub, having had a mushroom kebab with his future wife. He switched his phone back on and saw that he’d missed a text from a friend. 

Then another text.

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