It's a very low-key ground and to see two Hollywood stars in the stand I was gobsmacked," he said. "Showing up at Maidenhead away isn't the sort of Hollywood entrance you would expect. Wrexham supporter Andy Gilpin told reporters the presence of the stars gave their fans a big boost. "But that's football - it can be a brutal industry." "I'm really disappointed for them," Parkinson said. Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson, who in recent years has managed Sunderland and Bolton Wanderers, was sorry his bosses had to suffer watching a defeat at Maidenhead. They were unlucky in their previous away fixture when leading comfortably 2-0 at Aldershot a heavy rainstorm made the pitch unplayable and the match was abandoned.
The actors were accompanied by a film crew making a documentary, Welcome to Wrexham.Īlthough this was their first visit to an actual game, Reynolds and McElhenney have been following Wrexham's matches streamed live to the US.ĭespite the great expectations, the club hasn't had the best start to the season and are currently 11th in the table. He commented passionately that "football is a staggering, heartbreaking, gorgeous, tommy-gun of soul-deadening evil and beauty and I'm never sleeping again ever, ever." They will have to get used to that sort of thing in the coming months.ĭespite the defeat, Canadian-born Reynolds appeared to enjoy his introduction to the football experience at grassroots level. The two actors also had to put up with cheeky chants from the home crowd of "You bought the wrong club." Wrexham had a player sent off and Maidenhead went on to grab a 3-2 victory. They fought back to make it 2-2, but this was not to be a Hollywood ending. The new owners of the Welsh club saw their team fall 2-0 behind their lowly opponents by half-time. Their initial taste of English football, played in front of 1,600 spectators, saw them experience the full gamut of emotions that go with supporting, let alone owning, a lower league club. It must have felt about as far away from tinsel town as you can possibly get.
Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, owners of National League side Wrexham FC, attended their first match on Tuesday night at the unlikely setting of Maidenhead United's modest York Road ground. Wrexham owners Rob McElhenney, left, and Ryan Reynolds. (Photo: Reuters)
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