- Like Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham success, an American couple from Georgia are buying into British soccer. Bryan and Shannon Miles sold their staffing company for $126 million and now co-own U.K. team Walsall F.C. and Irish club Drogheda United F.C., stocking stadiums with their very own beer brand NoFo Brew Co.
Many Americans romanticize the U.K.’s football or “soccer” culture, living vicariously through Ted Lasso and the famously Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney–owned Wrexham club. But for Bryan and his wife, Shannon Miles, co-owning soccer clubs is their reality.
