Notts County have praised Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham despite their Welsh rivals pipping them to the National League title in an epic season-long battle.
County have amassed over 100 points this season - a remarkable feat that would normally see them sweep to the title and a Football League return.
But the Wrexham powerhouse, funded by Hollywood stars Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, has simply been too much for them.
You can get hold of a special 48-page souvenir celebrating the achievement here.
The Magpies can no longer win the National League after Wrexham sealed top spot with a 3-1 victory over Boreham Wood last weekend. Notts, who face York City in their final league game of the season on Saturday evening, will now enter the play-offs with a hope and expectation to join Wrexham in League Two. The Magpies are currently on 106 points and they, alongside Wrexham (110), are statistically the best two teams in the division's history.
Wrexham beat Notts in a 3-2 thriller at the Racecourse Ground earlier this month - a result which ultimately sealed the deal.
However, rather than heaping praise on his own side, Wrexham co-owner Reynolds has gone out of his way several times to praise the "special" Magpies after the title race, calling for two sides to be automatically promoted in future rather than just one.
"What makes it so special is how powerful, how special, how unique Notts County is," Reynolds told BT Sport after the game. "They're the real story here. What they've done this season: losing their CEO Jason Turner, who as I've grown to know and learn was utterly beloved not just in Notts but here as well.
"I have such enormous respect for everything they’ve built and everything that they’ve done and it's just insane for me that only one goes up automatically.
"If it were different - and I think it should be - both of these clubs would be celebrating together right now. Because what they've done is not only created drama greater than anything you’d see in a damn movie, but just something I think people will be talking about for ages.
"The fact this much attention has come upon the National League in this way I think is incredibly special and immensely worthy of not only Wrexham but Notts County as well. What they’ve done is so special, so unique."
Notts captain Kyle Cameron has now praised Wrexham for their achievement after the club previously congratulated their Welsh rivals on "an outstanding season".
He told Mirror Football : "If you look at seasons in the past, 106 points would win every single season this league has seen, apart from this one. It's a little bit tough, we would have loved to win the league, but you have got to give some credit to Wrexham about what they have done this season.
"It has been incredible, so big congratulations to them. We're just hoping, fingers crossed, that we can get it over the line in the play-offs."
"It's one people are going to talk about, two teams on opposite ends of the spectrum, but on the same spectrum of winning games for the majority of the season," Cameron added.
"They have done amazing, they are sitting on 110 points at the moment and they could get 113 on Saturday. It has been neck-and-neck and back-and-forth all season and it's been a really good one to be involved in because it's going to go down in the history books for many years."
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