Excited for this as well

It's a real story about their investment in the club, but its aim is to be funny and entertain while documenting the experience.

I follow Rob on Twitter, so I was seeing his tweets about the season last year. At first it seemed like it was a joke, or he was just becoming a fan. Pretty cool idea that they actually bought in, but it now makes sense that they have this docuseries created off of it. Good way to generate some revenue to offset investment, plus all these sports docuseries the last 5 years are amazing.

I have zero interest in professional sports at any level but I am probably going to watch this. Sweet Dee's husband does some good work

Both guys have been on the Smartless podcast in the last year, Rob talked about it a lot. I think he and RR tried to have their own faces on the doc as little as possible, although the commercials seem to say otherwise.

I've got very little interest in soccer, but I really enjoyed the first two episodes. Definitely will continue to watch.

Enjoyed the first 2 episodes as well. Similar to Sunderland Til I Die on Netflix

Spending 14 years in the 5th tier has to be the very definition of the abyss of professional football

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As a longtime Always Sunny and soccer fan, its cool to see Rob is a genuinely good guy.

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It is pretty obvious from sunny that they are pretty good people. Ironically, You can't write "terrible human" characters that well when you are a terrible human.

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RichardSplet said:

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As a longtime Always Sunny and soccer fan, its cool to see Rob is a genuinely good guy.

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It is pretty obvious from sunny that they are pretty good people. Ironically, You can't write "terrible human" characters that well when you are a terrible human.

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Although I half expected someone to kick the ball straight into Sweet Dee's face in the backyard soccer game.

Spoilers

What they did at the end of Ep.2 was smart. The club was too used to losing. They needed to clean house and start over with hungry players and coaches.

This story fascinates me. If I knew you could buy a soccer club in Wales for less than 3 million, I might have tried to string that together.

Between Merch sales and the FX Show, they've likely already gotten their investment back. Not to mention when the fans can attend again and they start getting gate $$. Seems like a really good/easy investment, that they can cash in on due to their celebrity. If they can get the team promoted, they might make some really good money.

Looking forward to the rest of the season.

Only (dad) complaint: I wish they didn't cuss so much. I'd like to watch this with my boys, but they drop so many dang F-bombs. Without that, it's a perfect family show.

I just followed the club on Twitter. They are up to 145k followers and appear to have a new kit sponsor. Goodbye horse trailers, hello American gin movie star money!

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Goodbye horse trailers, hello American gin movie star money!

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well played

They illustrated that your average EPL player makes 100X what an average player in the national league makes. If this kind of thing interests you watch Take Us Home: Leeds United on Amazon. They are bought by an Italian guy when they're in The Championship, the step below the EPL. The difference in revenue between those two leagues is $100MM annually. Wrexham is just trying to get out of the basement.

I wish there was a documentary about Leeds these past couple of seasons too...would have been a great story to follow.

Going to check that out. Thanks for the recommendation.

This show keeps getting better and better. The all about wales episode is brilliant

All in on this show. Great documentary. Loved the song.

Would love to have a beer with Deadpool and McElhenney

The latest episode about Hooligans is pretty good.

For those more in the know, does that sub-culture show up in all professional soccer, or is it more of a UK/Irish thing?

It's definitely present in other nations. Eastern European fans can be particularly nasty.

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It's definitely present in other nations. Eastern European fans can be particularly nasty.

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Interesting. I've always wondered why, for as competitive as Americans are, we don't seem to have the same kind of violence. Maybe I'm just being biased. If I had to select the most violent fanbase in the US, I would say it was the Raiders when they were in Oakland. I remember stories about NFL players telling family members to avoid going to those games, but do you think the hooligans f up people more than those fans used to?

There is a thread on the NFL board devoted to showing fights at football games.

https://texags.com/forums/23/topics/3309325

No idea how this compares to European soccer, but we definitely have our fair share of drunk idiots at sporting events.

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jeffk said:

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It's definitely present in other nations. Eastern European fans can be particularly nasty.

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Interesting. I've always wondered why, for as competitive as Americans are, we don't seem to have the same kind of violence. Maybe I'm just being biased. If I had to select the most violent fanbase in the US, I would say it was the Raiders when they were in Oakland. I remember stories about NFL players telling family members to avoid going to those games, but do you think the hooligans f up people more than those fans used to?

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I think our sports-related violence is generally a bit more spur of the moment drunkenness and general criminality, with maybe some gang stuff thrown in. My guess is that European football clubs are a lot more entwined with local or national political and/or religious issues. For example, Rangers in the Scottish Premier League is typically thought of as the Protestant club in Glasgow, whereas Celtic is the Catholic club. Consequently, it's not just a battle of cross-town rivals; it's damn near a holy war. Similarly, you'll see fan groups across Europe that intermix their fandom with political ideologies, including neo-Nazi-ism.

On the soccer board

https://texags.com/forums/51/topics/3310461/1

The last episode of season 4 was fantastic. Anyone else watch?

It was good, I do wish they would go back to what they did the first couple of season though with more focus on the fans and what it means to the town, because that's the real story. This season we had the women's team, youth academy, Humprhey's marathon, and only a couple of passing stories on the fans. Almost nothing at the end on what the promotion means to Wrexham.
Was still good, but seems to be phoning it in a bit now. Jmo.