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If you have been listening to the news (sports' news that is) you will have heard the following football related terms; AFC Wrexham, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in a sentence.  There is a club "take over" in the offing and one of the more well known Welsh football teams is making the headlines. Tonight Wrexham travel across country (Wales) and across country again (England) to Hartlepool where they will indulge in a Conference Premier game kicking off at 7pm. When and how they travel? where they stay? heavens knows. Its a long way to go for a footy match, especially during these days, and it's expensive. Where does the money come from?

Wrexham is the oldest football club in Wales and claims to be the third oldest professional club in the UK, or was it Britain (NO!! It claims to be "in the World"). Their first fixture was against The Prince of Wales Fire Brigade on 22nd October 1864. The two teams varied between 15 a side to 11 and there would have been "local rules". More recently Wrexham fell out of the Football League in 2007-8 and played in the Conference and the National League (lounging at the bottom at the moment) having been in the Play Offs last season.

Looking up "oldest football clubs" you might find Huddersfield on show, but almost certainly this would have been for an early version of  "rugby football" and of course it was "league rules" not "union". Wrexham began as many other clubs, as a cricket club, with the desire to play something in the winter to keep fit. Sheffield FC began that way in 1857, there is Cray, Hallam, Notts County and Nottingham Forest-the oldest known. In Edinburgh there is evidence of football in 1824, with 39 players in their club. The Brewers' Company of London was up to something in 1421, hiring out a "hall" for 20p for "football players". The Gymnastic Society of London in the 1750s pursued football and wrestling, meeting on Kennington Common from 1789. There are plenty of other references. In 1890 the club joined the "Combination League", a league formed from Northern and Midland clubs. There was a period in the Welsh Senior League and then the Birmingham and District League before joining the Football League Div 3 North in 1921.

Wrexham became "Supporter owned" in August 2011 and now the rescue package has been put in place with the investment from Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds and the Wrexham supporters' agreement. See above. The coming together has been done "virtually" and appears to be secured and the aim to produce a "GLOBAL FORCE",

Ryan Reynolds has been in action with a Canadian Soap "Hillside", they appeared in "Two Guys and a Girl" 1998-01, then Deadpool and Superhero stuff. His two wives have been Scarlett Johansson and lately Blake Lively.

Rob McElhenney, is of Irish descent, and married to Kaitlin Olson, actress, comedian and "producer"...they have two children. Rob's mother came out as lesbian when he was 8 and two of his brothers are gay. Sport has never been far away, as a cousin was a cox in the USA eight in the 2008 Olympics and his wife went into labour with their first son while watching a Philadelphia Phillies game! You must see this! Its a message from the chaps and sponsors-not the missus going into labour!

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