The Club Rob & Ryan Almost Bought Instead of Wrexham!

🤯 Wrexham wasn’t the first choice?! Humphrey Ker reveals that Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney had their eyes on another club before making history at the Racecourse Ground!

Which team almost got the Hollywood treatment? And why did Wrexham come out on top? Find out in this clip!

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just want to let you lot know that if you’re watching this clip on the fcast youtube channel the full episode is now available to watch exclusively on spotify and it’s free come on four and a half years nearly four and a half years since the uh the the famous takeover in your wildest dream hunt humphrey would you have ever believed that we would be where we are today with rexom no genuinely i mean i i think um my journey into this kind of whole thing was was one of steadily increasing disbelief that it was really it was really happening you know it started out as a kind of crazy lockdown thing your slightly eccentric boss is like “let’s buy we should buy a football team what should i never had a boss that has said that to me ever before?” i just put out this he’s the first one that’s ever done it done it for me and i presume the last it’s going to be weird if what if i’m the reason people buy football clubs but yeah he he um you know he said it start lockdown we were like h you know sure sounds fun we’ll talk about this it’s better than learning how to cook you know sourdough bread or whatever it is or yeah or the lockowning german wix every time yes yeah yeah yeah it was joe wixs would buy a football team and i was like “suck it joe i’m buying a football team.” um and uh uh yeah you know but but each stage you’re like well but yeah at some stage she’s going to lose interest or someone’s going to come along be like well not you no no where the football police are here and we’re we’re stopping you from doing this and um yeah lo and behold it just at each like hurdle where i was like well this is where this whole thing falls apart we’ve cleared it you know and and as of touchwood as of right now you know we’re we’re on course to get promoted out of league one four years later and into the championship and all the craziness that that entails okay two questions then first of all why rexom so genuinely i can i give you the the the comprehensive answer on this was kind of there’s three reasons really one i had a a vhs tape of 101 great fa cup goals when i was a kid and mickey thomas’s freak against arsenal was on that and i always had a sort of fondness for rexom off the back of that i watched that video over and over again he said at the start quite rightly i’d never kicked a ball in anger in my life but i’ve always loved football and just in i was always oh yeah rexom rexom quite like rexom and when i play um championship manager and then football manager and i’d always pick rexom you know it’s like a yeah why not like they they were always a league 2 team whatever it may be so when rob said “right which team are we going to buy?” that was my job to start off with like i was in charge of identifying a club and yeah mickey thomas’s goal then knowing kind of having a background in working in tv and storytelling and like the narrative around rexon was perfect it’s like you know historic club fallen hard times owned by the fans surviving by the skin of its teeth um but but this incredibly strong sense of itself that welsh identity the fact that every single game we play is like a crossborder derby you’re you you know it doesn’t matter if you’re playing or if you’re playing qpr or if you’re playing you know basically anyone other than swansea cardiff and and uh newport county there’s a little bit of needle there’s a bit of extra something about w boys are in town yes yes yes and then you know the third reason was as i started like looking into it and again looking into it through wikipedia and football manager i mean like the the data on football manager is so good i was looking like what’s what’s rexim’s training ground i went on their website can’t find it wikipedia didn’t say what it was was a bit confusing they didn’t really have a training ground at that stage but went on championship manager and they’re like oh it’s called collier’s park so then you google collier’s park is like well yeah we’re an faw training center but we sort of sometimes have rexom here as well and you’re like oh that’s how you that was my detective work so big thanks to rob and of collier or whatever their names are the guys that invented football manager it’s a massive part of this whole thing and um you once i started doing the investigation and and put together this like dossier of we looked at uh aldershot because they were they were alphabetically the first team in the national league and rob i told him about the national league was like “what is this alder shot?” uh or whatever it’s a very bad impression of rob um and so i was like “well all right we’ll look into alderot.” we looked at um heart lipool i think lots of people know that carl united um trying to think was there any rogue ones was there any was it always going to be a similar ilk of team size of team no this is a really good question because i don’t think i’ve ever ever brought this up before it initially he wanted to do it in ireland or scotland cuz he’s from ireland so he’s like “what about shamrock rovers?” and i was like “look you know league of great clubs historic clubs it would be brilliant in many ways but you it’d be like throwing a brick into a pond if you put if you put your time and energy and resources into a league of ireland club you win the league of ireland instantaneously and no one comes close to you and there’s no drama there.” scotland’s interesting like oh it could you know you could start with like an ro or or a you know um queen of the south or something like that they’re like down near the bottom there and build them up but then you’re always going to get this thing where okay you probably get them into premiership but you’re going to run into you know hearts hibs abedine and then obviously celtic and rangers and and then you know we’ll get hammered every time we play them we might beat other people it’s going to be a bit strange the the thing with the longest room for growth i think is english football so yeah i think the you know i think no offense all the shot all the shots bit of a rogue rogue shout um i think and also really sorry alshot he was like what is alashshot i was like well it’s where the i think the sas no sas is based in heraford so the parachute regiment is based mostly soldiers and prostitutes is my understanding of of the shot that that’s before i looked that doesn’t say that on football manager just to be clear that was my that’s my analysis analysis related to that i like both of those things but um we’ll look somewhere else so so uh yeah rexom ended up being the choice okay then second question why you um yeah great question great great questions so uh that was because so i was working as a writer on rob’s show mythic quest um and during lockdown we we all went home for like two weeks like “oh you know they’ll sort this out in a couple of weeks we’ve all got two weeks paid leave this is brilliant.” and everyone was going “oh you should watch this tv show or you should listen to this album or read this book or we’ve all got this free time.” we had a big group chat and robert always made fun of me for watching football in the writer room um uh cuz i watched that was the sort of year that liverpool went to the uh madrid european cup final he had the barcelona uh reverse at anfield the kind of the miracle of anfield or whatever it is and uh he would sort of he was kind of peering over my should i would watch it sometimes on our lunch breaks because it’s like we take our lunch at 12:00 p.m which on the west coast is 8:00 p.m in the uk so he he sort of was like “okay i’m just vaguely starting to understand why you’re into this sport.” because he’d always been very like “oh there’s too much flopping and there’s too much i don’t get it they only score like one goal it’s all like one nil it’s so boring.” and then i i said to him “you should watch this documentary sunderland till i die because that’s going to make you see how it is that the way we interact with our football clubs is totally different the way americans interact with their sports franchises as they call them here so often.” because i was like you know rob loves the eagles he loves the phillies he loves the flyers he loves the 76ers but basically you’ve got four big sports teams to follow all year and you get they get about a quarter of your attention yeah because you’re like “ah eagles eagles eagles eagles and then they win the super bowl as it did this year.” and like great okay switching over to the 76ers like and 76 76 76ers and and we’ve only got one team all year round you know maybe you might like cricket a bit or you might like rugby a little bit but no one has that that same dedication to their rugby or cricket team as it did to football i was like watch this sunday diagram that’ll show you why it’s like a religion to us and why it means so much and why there’s something dare i say it’s a bit richer i think about being a being a football fan or being a one sport person you know i don’t want to say there are i mean there are people who are obsessed obsessed with their foot their football teams over here and their basketball teams and they paint their whole bodies and go to every game and they go to every spring training game but i was like that’s all sort of all of us all the time you know it’s just you football season ends immediately it’s like well who’s where who are we going to sign who we going to sign what’s happening what’s this who’s where’s that player going to end up and it’s steeped in history as well it’s and yeah your granddad probably took you or your or your uh or your your dad or if you’re very posh like me then no one in your family is ever interested in football and they’re like “no no you go fishing don’t you isn’t that what you do on saturdays?” um and but i didn’t like that i like football um but yeah it is it is i mean that’s what’s so amazing about i think one of the things that and and it’s true for all the clubs i’ve mentioned thus far and so many clubs in the uk but i think the thing that’s resonates so strongly with so many of our like new north american and international fans is they’re like “wait a second this this club was has been playing in this stadium since like the middle of the american civil war like that that’s it’s the same year as the battle of gettysburg or something i think or like the year before it or something and you know here even if you’re i absolutely love the cleveland browns it’s like they only formed in 1947 or something and it doesn’t mean it’s there’s anything less of it but you just it comes with that history and that sense of like belonging to something thanks everybody for watching we hope you enjoyed this clip of the foscast if you would like to watch the full episode it is now available exclusively on spotify for free [Music]