#Wrexham - English

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Go on Levi 😂💪🏼

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Ryan Reynolds to feature Wrexham players (and Hugh Jackman) in latest Deadpool movie

Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds is reportedly contemplating giving cameo roles to Wrexham’s high scorer, Paul Mullin, and goalkeeper, Ben Foster, in his latest Deadpool movie, which is being filmed in the UK and due out subsequent 12 months. Reynolds, who is thought for integrating totally different features of his life and profession into his tasks, has already worn a Wrexham baseball cap in a…

[showoftheyear]

Personal Opinion on Screen OD’s List

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORN5I2oJe4

First proper list of the year, although it’s from a source I’ve never heard of! Let’s get into it.

First up we have Rings of Power. I didn’t hate Rings of Power, but I feel like watching it in any proximity to the films reveals that it’s pretty shallow. I enjoyed it the way I would enjoy a CW Superhero show, I don’t think it belongs on a best of list but what can you do.

Next up is The English, an Amazon western show starring Emily Blunt. I haven’t gotten around to it yet, it has relatively positive reviews and just came out super recently. I’ve seen some people think it has awards potential, probably because Emily Blunt is such a big name, plus it’s run by Hugo Blick, whose show The Honourable Woman got nominated almost a decade ago. Have you seen The English? Let me know if it’s worth watching!

Prehistoric Planet is yet another David Attenborough nature documentary, I don’t see a lot of these on year end lists but they do really well in IMDB audience rankings. If you like this kind of show, it’s probably great!

Next up is Pachinko, an amazing show, I’m kind of surprised it’s so low here. I really hope it does better on other lists. This show was really artful, amazing performances, and some really creative episodes.

The Sandman! I loved The Sandman, although I haven’t read the comics. I’m really glad to see it here, one of my favourite shows of the year. I’m glad it was updated to have more racial diversity and more queer characters, and I think the show just really sucks you in, I couldn’t stop watching. So excited for Season 2.

WeCrashed is a show I didn’t get to watch, and it got pretty negative reviews so I’m surprised to see it here. Let me know if you liked it and if you think it’s worth watching.

The Gilded Age is very, very similar to Downton Abbey. I wasn’t a huge fan, but I would probably watch anything with Audra McDonald, Christine Baranski, and Carrie Coon.

Night Sky is a sci-fi drama on Amazon, I don’t know anything about it beyond that it stars JK Simmons, who is always amazing. Let me know your thoughts if you’ve seen it!

Heartstopper is here at number 14! I’m so so happy to see it, it’s a show and comic that are very special to me. I’ve never felt catharsis the way I did getting to see the love story between Nick and Charlie blossom, and I’m so happy it’s getting so much critical attention. This is the gay romance I’ve been waiting my whole life for.

The Bear is a phenomenon and honestly has one of the best episodes of the year with Episode 7, a tight, 20 minutes in real time look into the chaos of the kitchen.  Jeremy Allan White and Ayo Edebiri have such intense coworker chemistry that it’s always electrifying to watch them.

Very surprised to see Doctor Who here, but pleasantly surprised as I heard the regeneration special was fantastic. I’m way behind on the Whittaker/Chibnall era of the show, but this makes me excited to catch up.

Better Call Saul is, for me, the best show of the entire year, and putting it all the way down at number 11 is a bit criminal. The final season was so innovative, and the way it intertwines itself with Breaking Bad is like nothing else I’ve seen on TV. Like every other season, Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn hold the show together with they’re heart pumping romance, but Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando and Tony Dalton make the other side of the show just as intense. Heartbroken that this is over, I really hope it gets the recognition it deserves.

House of the Dragon is number ten and I know it’s going to do really well here but it’s not a show I’m very fond of. I’m a bit tired of the Game of Thrones “fantasy must be historically accurate but only when it comes to misogyny/racism/homophobia” model and this show hasn’t done much to assuage that. This article does a better job of explaining it than I could, but often HotD and GoT both go out of their way to make things even more misogynistic. This show is going to do amazingly at awards shows and on the year end lists, but I’m tired of it already.

Stranger Things is here at number 9, I was a bit mixed on it but I loved the use of Running Up That Hill, one of my favourite songs, and I thought the plot twist was pretty effective.

This is Going to Hurt is a show I keep meaning to watch, it’s an adaptation of a book about a doctor struggling to work with the underfunding of the NHS, the United Kingdom’s public health care system. Even though I haven’t watched this yet, I’m cheering for this show, both because the lead character is gay and because I like to see shows produced outside the US get recognition.

Julia is an HBO comedy covering the start of Julia Child’s cooking program. I didn’t know much about Julia Child before watching the show, but this show is a really excellent one to put on, relax, and have fun watching. It’s really comfy, and I think Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce are fantastic and fun actors. Lancashire really gets Julia’s mannerisms and accents. A really fun show.

The Dropout is about Elizabeth Holmes, who scammed her way into making Theranos, a biotech company. This show keeps growing and growing in my esteem as the year goes on, and I think the tension it captures is fantastic. Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews are also fantastic in it, Seyfried’s Emmy was well deserved. I expect The Dropout to be a huge success in year end lists.

Welcome to Wrexham is a documentary about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a soccer team in Britain. I really don’t know anything about this one, let me know if you’ve seen it what you think!

The White Lotus’s second season is here in fourth place, and I think it’s well deserved. I prefer it to the first season, and I really love this year’s cast, particularly Aubrey Plaza. The way the whole cast bounces off each other is magnetic, I can’t recommend it enough. Hopefully it sticks the landing in its last few episodes.

In third place is Bad Sisters, a show by Sharon Horgan who created Catastrophe. In Bad Sisters, the sisters of a woman with an abusive husband get together to plot how to murder him and rescue her. It’s really interesting so far, but I’m only on episode 2. I’ve heard a lot of good things and I expect it to do really well with British critics.

Second place is my biggest and most major disagreement with this list, Ozark. I feel like Julia Garner basically robbed everyone else at the emmys (most notably Jung Ho-yeon, Sarah Snook, Patricia Arquette and Rhea Seehorn, who all had amazing performances). I’ve never really liked Ozark, it feels like a cheap imitation of Breaking Bad, but even people who liked Ozark felt that the last season was pretty awful (and I agree). Screen OD assures us that the show isn’t “one of those shows with an unsatisfactory ending”, but I’d strongly disagree. Oh well. Every list is going to have one off choice, but I really really think Ozark and Better Call Saul should be swapped, especially because Better Call Saul feels like it’s pretty much just a much better version of Ozark.

However, I cannot have any complaint about the show in first place, Severance. Severance is a fascinating look at how capitalism makes life into a living nightmare for everyone, while also just being a fantastic and compelling piece of science fiction. Every character is fantastic and so is every actor. This deserves first place for the fantastic romance between Burt and Irving all on its own. If you haven’t watched it yet, get going! Or don’t, it’s a long wait until season 2, but I have a feeling this is going to be known as one of the best tv shows of the 20s when all is said and done.

[leclercari]

Wrexham AFC is promoted to the English Football League after a 3-1 victory against Boreham Wood in front of club owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney

[isay]

My Brighton and Hove Albion women’s team walked the English Women’s Super League and now I need a new team to take on in FIFA23.

My Wrexham team destroyed everyone in Division One of the Football League but I feel it may be time for another overseas jaunt, the question is where?

Any ideas peeps?

I’ve won Serie A with Bologna and Pisa, the Danish Superliga with Aarhus, and the Swedish league with Malmo. Is it time to take on the MLS? And if so, who as?

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Wrexham FC co-owner Ryan Reynolds part of 170m celebrity buy-in at Alpine | 2023 F1 season

The Alpine F1 team has received a €200 million (£170m) boost from an investment group including Wrexham FC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. The Enstone-based F1 team, run by Renault under their Alpine brand, announced it has sold shares amounting to a 24% equity stake of Alpine Racing Ltd. The group of investors consists of Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners – which holds a large stake in Fenway Sports Group, owners of English Premier League football club Liverpool – and Maximum Effort Investments, led by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds along with fellow actor and Wrexham FC owner Rob McElhenney. Another celebrity, ‘Black Panther’ star Michael B Jordan, has joined as a co-investor. The share purchase values Alpine’s F1 team at $900m (£700m). The buy-in only involves Alpine’s F1 team and does not include Renault’s power unit factory at Viry-Chatillon in France, which remains owned by Renault. Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi said the investment would enhance the team’s performance “at all levels.” Rossi said the investors would “bring their recognised expertise to boost our media and marketing strategy, essential to support our sporting performance over the long term. “Second,” Rossi continued, “the incremental revenue generated will in turn be reinvested in the team, in order to further accelerate our ‘Mountain Climber’ plan, aimed at catching up with top teams in terms of state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.” James Toney, co-founder of Maximum Effort Investments, said that there was “tremendous untapped potential” in the Alpine F1 team. “We are eager to help shine a light on this incredible team,” Toney said. “We’re thankful to our partners at Otro Capital and RedBird Capital Partners and look forward to diving in with them, as well as our co-investors Michael B. Jordan and Rob McElhenney.” Alpine finished fourth in last year’s constructors’ championship after beating rivals McLaren to the ‘best of the rest’ position behind last year’s three strongest teams. The team currently sit in fifth place on 44 points after eight rounds. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2023 F1 season Browse all 2023 F1 season articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

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“Am I the only one who thinks it's weird for the King to meet with a Hollywood celeb on the heels of his son releasing a Hollywood documentary that the nation is upset about?”

Reynolds bought Wrexham in 2020. Via Sporting life:

“Reynolds and McElhenney intend on using their own money to invest in the club, expected to amount to £2 million, outlining their goals of injecting cash to allow Wrexham a chance of hitting the heights of the top of the English football pyramid.

“Our goal is to grow the team, return it to the English Football League in front of increased attendances at an improved stadium while making a positive difference to the wider community in Wrexham,” they explained in the call.”

What I find odd is that he’s meeting the King and not the POW given Wales and that he’s head of the FA.

Thank you. I am already well aware of the back story with Ryan and the team.

Interesting point about him meeting with Charles and not William. I am glad it wasn't William.

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Yma O Hyd

by pvrkxrs

Colin wants to celebrate Wrexham's promotion.

Words: 1438, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Colin Hughes, Isaac McAdoo, Jamie Tartt, Sam Obisanya, Jan Maas, AFC Richmond Players (Ted Lasso)

Relationships: Colin Hughes & Isaac McAdoo, Colin Hughes & Jamie Tartt, Colin Hughes & the Greyhounds, AFC Richmond Players - Relationship

Additional Tags: wrexham in the league inspired this, Colin Hughes-centric, jamie/colin if you squint, afc richmond players as a family, isaac mcadoo is a good friend, LOTS of welsh, Wrexham AFC, colin loves wales

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46697173

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soccer aid always a delight. geriatric paul scholes scores a goal and is immediately injured. stormzy is doing southgate cosplay. poch once again the most fuckable manager in english football. usain bolt has his world record time as a shirt number. ben foster plays for the rest of the world despite having been a literal england goalkeeper bc he's become a wrexham meme instead of just a youtuber meme. robbie keane has done a forward roll after scoring. mel c has incredible hair. tom hiddleston does not.

[emmashouldbewriting]

can you take a look at the Quote tweets for the Wrexham tweet and explain why some people are saying "I always liked H&M anyways" and others are saying "I'm a monarchist now" ?

I tried but it gave me a headache

It's probably a mix of satire, Wrexham fans deciding they don't mind that the Prince of Wales is English today, Notts County fans feeling hard done by, and a bunch of idiots

[muppetjackrackham]

36, 38

legally sanctioned nosiness

36: Where I would like to live

hMMMM this one is interesting because like. i like the idea of living somewhere else, but i don't know that there's really anywhere else i would want to live than where i'm currently living here in my hometown. there's a lot of shit about it that really, truly, genuinely sucks, but it's also where my family and some of my closest friends are, and i can't imagine really wanted to live too far away from them. i guess if i really had to pick......i'd love to have a little cottage in the english/european countryside, still within driving distance of a bigger city, but far enough away that i have some peace and quiet. or maybe somewhere like bristol or wrexham.

38: My childhood career choice

the first thing i ever remember wanting to be was a paleontologist at roughly three or four years old because of dinousaurs and jurassic park (there were two computer games i was obsessed with as a little kid and one of them was where's the blanket charlie brown and the other one was jurassic park park III: danger zone). by the time i was in middle school i wanted to be a forensic scientist (especially in seventh grade when we did a crime scene investigation unit in my science class and i was REALLY into the show castle at the time) and then i wanted to be an author but ultimately i will always have that same childhood love and a passion for things like dinosaurs and paleontology/archaeology

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Welcome to Wrexham Season 2: Release date, how to watch and everything you need to know

A TV show that really captured the imagination of both football fans and non-football fans last year was the first season of Welcome to Wrexham. The show chronicled Wrexham AFC‘s season with new owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the TV and movie stars from Canada and America. The show was a particular hit in the United States of America and Canada, meaning fans have been desperate to know…

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✨get to know me better✨

tagged by the fab @cinematicnomad 3 ships: i’m really not in any fandom atm :( . instead of listing the usual ships that have been around forever here are some ships I’ve enjoyed this year: louis/lestat (iwtv), eli/cornelia (the english), charlie/nick (heartstopper). first ever ship: i can’t remember lol. probably tom/b’elanna from star trek voyager or mulder/scully from the x files. i think they were around the same time...? last song: itunes is currently playing i don’t care by ricky martin. the lost song i downloaded was the mitch tambo version of you’re the voice. last movie: i rewatched avatar last night, in anticipation of maybe watching the sequel this week. currently reading: just rereading an old sterek fic as i await a book i ordered at the library to become available. currently watching: finally started watching welcome to wrexham. i’m enjoying it. currently consuming: i have been making my way pretty quickly though all the christmas leftovers lol. currently craving: nothing - see above answer lol.

i tag: @crazyassmurdererwall . @machtaholic . @soseverus . @midnightstreet . @emisfritish . @crashlaanding . @webbgirl34 . and anyone else who wants to.

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The End of the Commonwealth 1659-60: ‘according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this kingdom, the Government is, and ought to be, by Kings, Lords and Commons’

George Monck Makes His Move

General George Monck Entering London with His Troops. Source: Mary Evans Picture Library website

THE FINAL days of the Commonwealth were filled with the very unresolved issues that had dogged the English republican experiment from its start - the question of legitimacy, the unsettled balance of power between the various postwar factions and the yearning of the populace for stable government. However, England’s civil wars had one last drama to play out before the Commonwealth’s denouement.

The Royalist plotters of the Sealed Knot, observing the crisis of the post-Protectorate regime, thought their time had come at last to seize the initiative by force. In July 1659, a series of uprisings across northern England was planned to overthrow the Rump and invite Charles II to assume the throne. As with other of the Sealed Knot’s schemes, this was plot was also uncovered and then called off by its instigators, but not before Sir Thomas Myddleton had declared for the King in Wrexham and the Earl of Derby had entered England from the Isle of Man to try to incite Lancashire to rise. Neither succeeded in attracting much support, but Sir George Booth, a local landowner, mayor of Chester, and, significantly a former Parliamentarian, raised an army of 4,000 and proclaimed his support, less for a restored monarchy and more for a fresh Parliament, legitimised by new elections. This call for full Parliamentary representation became the increasing slogan of the growing opposition to the Army and England’s republic. Booth may have anticipated a coming public mood, but that mood was universal yet. With no other anti-Rump force in the field, Booth headed to Manchester, pursued by a small Parliamentary force under the command of John Lambert. On 18th August the two armies clashed at Hartford Beech in Cheshire. The experienced Parliamentary force soon had the better of what turned out to be a set of running skirmishes until the Royalists finally routed as they attempted to cross Winnington Bridge. Both Myddleton and, eventually, Booth, were captured and the defeated Royalist soldiery were allowed to return to their homes. So ended the last set piece battle of the English civil wars.

Any Parliamentary solidarity that may have been engendered by this brief renewal of fighting in England, did not last long. Lambert, newly emboldened, was determined this time to secure the supreme leadership role he had denied himself after Cromwell’s death out of loyalty to his former commander. His opportunity came when his regiments, based in Derby, issued a proclamation to the Rump, requiring the granting of all the Army’s demands concerning pay, indemnity, religious toleration, the maintenance of republican government and the purging of “delinquent” MPs opposed to the military. Included in the demands was Lambert’s own elevation to second-in-command of the Army under General Charles Fleetwood. Naturally the Rump could not agree to what became termed the “Derby Petition” and retaliated by ordering Fleetwood to arrest Lambert in early October and issued an ordnance overturning all legislation passed during the Protectorate and requiring its validation by the House of Commons. In addition, under the lead of Arthur Heselrige, the Rump passed a further ordnance that reserved all tax-raising powers to the House of Commons and set about establishing a committee to take the control of the Army, ordering the London regiments to rally to defend Parliament. In the event, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the Army that won this stand-off: Fleetwood refused to move against Lambert who called on the same London regiments to muster and protect the Commonwealth. This they did, leading to the dissolution of the Rump Parliament yet again by military coup, and the establishment of a Committee of Safety to run the country by the Army’s Council of Officers.

Fleetwood and Lambert were in charge, but they had no practical plan as to what to do next. Lambert favoured restoration of the Protectorate, with himself as Lord Protector, but there was little appetite for this, even within the Army. The Committee of Safety could keep order, but in the absence of Parliament or constitution, it could neither raise taxes nor legitimise its role. It was a stop-gap, and the supporters of the Parliamentary cause saw no alternative to elections to a new and representative lower House. What was new however, was that in their determination to oppose both military rule and, as they saw it, the barely controlled radicalism on the part of the common soldiers, these former enemies of Charles I began to see the restoration of the monarchy as the only way out of this impasse, much to the surprise and delight of the exiled Stuart Court.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, General George Monck observed events south of the border enigmatically. He possessed the only military force of sufficient size and experience capable of challenging Fleetwood and Lambert, but his intentions were far from clear. Although Monck had sent sympathetic messages to Heselrige, he made no move to support the Rump or prevent its dissolution. Charles’ emissaries had contacted him offering the general vast rewards if he would defect to the Royalist side, but Monck had rebuffed their advances. Equally, he had not declared support for Committee of Safety either. The former Royalist turned Cromwellian loyalist was however about the enter the fray of Commonwealth politics decisively.

On 20th October, Monck declared his hand. He stated that he supported Parliamentary government and demanded the Council of Officers recall Parliament, threatening to bring his army into England in order to enforce this if necessary. Lambert and Fleetwood did not react well to this interference from their brother officer and prepared to resist any such incursion from Scotland. Lambert headed north to Newcastle, to rally the New Model forces there, but found to his consternation that the northern army was filled with dissent, infuriated at lack of pay and promised pensions, and that the soldiers too had joined the calls for new elections. Lambert succeeded in calming some of the agitation and he and Monck faced each other warily across the Scottish border. The issue was forced in November when in the south and in Ireland, the troops rebelled and demanded the recall of Parliament. When the fleet revolted too, threatening to blockade the Thames until the House of Commons sat again, Lambert, with his forces of questionable loyalty, knew his game was up. This was confirmed when the aged Sir Thomas Fairfax emerged from retirement to call for the restoration of Parliamentary rule. The northern armies deserted to the much-loved former commander en masse, leaving Lambert with no army and no options.

In December, military rule effectively fell apart, driven as much by the Council of Officers’ inability to pay the men as by the simultaneous and insistent, calls for the restoration of Parliamentary rule. On 26th December, Fleetwood and Lambert were forced to recall the Rump whose first action was to place the Army under Parliamentary control. Lambert, trapped between Monck’s forces and Fairfax’s new volunteer army of deserters, could not prevent this. On New Year’s Day 1660, Monck’s army crossed the Tweed and proceeded south, meeting no resistance. In fact, the Rump had told Monck that with the collapse of the coup, they no longer needed his presence in London, but the general proceeded to the capital anyway. The restoration of the Rump was only the first step in the ever-mysterious Monck’s probable plan.

As for Lambert, he submitted to the authority of the Rump and was immediately arrested and confined in the Tower of London. He would remain a prisoner for the rest of his days, finally dying, almost certainly suffering from dementia, in 1684. It was a sad end to one of the Commonwealth’s most capable politicians and soldiers. If, as he had wished, and others had urged, Cromwell had nominated Lambert as his successor and not his ineffective son, Lambert may have made a success both of the Protectorate and the English republic. Lambert in power would certainly have introduced a written constitution to England, with the formal checks and balances the British system of government lacks to this day. With Lambet leading the country in the late 1650s, the path to the Stuart restoration may have been blocked forever.

Once he reached London, Monck’s alliance of convenience with the Rump swiftly came to an end. It became clear that Heselrige and his allies were intent on calling highly restrictive elections that would ensure that only MPs who supported the Rump’s quasi-republican agenda would be able to serve. When in February, the Rump fell into dispute with the City of London council over increased raising of taxes and ordered Monck to suppress the Council, the general refused. Instead he gave the Rump seven days to dissolve itself and arrange full, unrestricted national elections. Given the impossibility of this deadline, a compromise was reached through an agreement to the restitution of the previous Parliament - the so-called Long Parliament, originally summoned by Charles I in November 1640, and forcibly dissolved in Pride’s Purge. The purged MPs returned to Westminster in triumph, escorted by Monck’s soldiers. The Long Parliament’s sole items of business were to confirm Monck as commander-in-chief of the Army, and to agree a date for its own dissolution and the calling of new elections. This it did on 16th March 1660.

Monck’s ultimate desire to see Charles II restored to his throne slowly became plain. As arrangements for elections were put into place, the general at last openly communicated with the Stuart court, which had transferred its location to Breda in Holland. But the enigma of Monck persisted: he was no political Royalist. He informed Charles’ emissaries that the King’s return to England would not be without conditions. There would be an amnesty for all who fought against the Crown in the civil wars; all sales of Royalist lands would remain in place; a degree of religious tolerance would be afforded, and the King would rule jointly with his Parliament. As the path for the unlikely restoration of a somewhat altered monarchy was cleared, John Pym would probably have approved.

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Ryan Reynolds Michael B. Jordan Rob McElhenney Buy 24% Stake in Alpine F1 for $218M

Matthew Ashton - AMA/Getty Images Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are widening their sporting footprint after joining an investor group that purchased a 24 percent stake in Formula One team Alpine Racing. Fellow actor Michael B. Jordan is involved in the venture as well. Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners and Maximum Effort Investments partnered to pay €200 million ($218M) for the ownership stake in the team "Formula 1 and Alpine are strategic assets for Renault Group," said Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. "Over the past two years, we have re-ignited Alpine, capitalizing on its iconic A110 sports coupé, boosting it by entering Formula 1, where it aims to become a championship contender. This partnership will accelerate Alpine F1 development by diversifying revenue drivers and increasing brand value." Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly are driving under the Alpine banner for the 2023 F1 season. They sit ninth and 10th respectively in the driver standings. For Reynolds and McElhenney, this comes after they've seen their investment in Wrexham A.F.C. already start to pay significant dividends. The club is the subject of the Welcome to Wrexham docuseries and secured promotion into the English Football League this season. Reynolds expressed interest in obtaining an ownership stake in the NHL's Ottawa Senators but saw his ownership group back out in May. A deal to sell the Senators to Michael Andlauer was agreed upon in June. via Bleacher Report - Formula 1 https://bleacherreport.com