Outside the Racecourse Ground, the crowd scene before a Wrexham FC home game in the National League is out of the ordinary. There are many more cameras than is normal for a non-league game, but the supporters are different too: as the documentary Welcome to Wrexham returns to Disney+ for season two, we see red and white replica shirts being worn by fans from the US, Portugal, Australia and Thailand.
Wrexham FC had no such international following before 2020, when it was, bewilderingly, bought by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Investing an initial £2m, the friends promised to do two things: revamp the ailing Wrexham FC, perhaps even turn it into a Premier League club; and make a documentary about the journey.
