Wrexham’s celeb house owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have travelled to look at their aspect’s Championship conflict with Wolves lower than a day after saying chief govt Michael Williamson’s shock departure.
Reynolds and McElhenney introduced in a joint assertion on Friday that Williamson was leaving the membership after two years on the Racecourse Floor, with membership director Shaun Harvey set to take the reins as appearing CEO whereas they search a successor.
‘We thank Michael Williamson for his two years at Wrexham and for his work taking the membership from League 1 to the Championship,’ the Hollywood actors’ assertion learn.
‘Since our takeover 5 years in the past, Wrexham have had historic success on the pitch and received hearts all around the globe.
‘We stay centered on our most necessary process: to make the Wrexham neighborhood proud.
‘Shaun Harvey has been an integral a part of this journey from the start, and we all know Shaun will give each assist to (supervisor) Phil Parkinson and the lads on the pitch whereas preserving the broader Wrexham neighborhood roaring us on.’
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds pictured watching Wrexham tackle Wolves on Saturday
The American actor takes photographs with supporters as he arrives on the Racecourse Floor
Williamson arrived at Wrexham in 2024 and oversaw a interval that noticed the membership win promotion from League One to the Championship and consolidate themselves within the second tier, narrowly lacking out on the playoffs with a seventh-place end.
Wrexham’s kind this marketing campaign has been much less fruitful, with simply 4 wins up to now leaving Parkinson’s aspect in seventeenth place heading into Saturday’s conflict with Wolves.
After arriving and assembly followers outdoors the stadium, Reynolds and McElhenney took their place within the Racecourse Floor stands hoping to look at their Wrexham aspect stage an upset.
Wolves, who have been relegated from the Premier League final season, took the lead within the twenty fifth minute earlier than Wrexham’s Lewis O’Brien equalised moments later, to the delight of the celeb house owners.
Whereas watching the match, Reynolds was pictured chatting to former Wrexham star James McClean, who left the Racecourse Floor to affix his hometown group Derry Metropolis in January.
McClean’s look at Wrexham is especially poignant on Remembrance Weekend, given the controversy he courted all through his profession by refusing to put on soccer shirts that includes a poppy.
Reynolds pictured chatting to former Wrexham footballer James McClean within the stands
Wrexham gamers, displaying poppies, observe a minute of silence on Remembrance weekend
Golf equipment throughout English soccer will observe a interval of silence earlier than matches this weekend, with gamers additionally carrying poppy-adorned shirts to honour those that misplaced their lives in battle.
McClean’s objection to carrying a poppy is rooted in his upbringing in Derry, having grown up on the Creggan property, the place six of the 13 civilians shot useless by British troopers on Bloody Sunday in 1972 have been from.
