Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney and Wrexham AFC’s group of workers and gamers celebrated the staff’s promotion with an open-top bus parade on Tuesday night.
Thousands of enthusiasts covered up alongside a three.5-mile path within the north Wales town as 3 buses left from the membership’s Racecourse floor wearing the staff that received the National League identify and promotion again to the English Football League after a 15-year absence. The ladies’s aspect additionally clinched promotion to the Genero Adran Premier by way of profitable their playoff ultimate.
The celebrations come after Reynolds and McElhenney, who purchased Wrexham in 2021, instructed Welsh-language broadcaster S4C that it remained their purpose to achieve the Premier League, even supposing it took two decades.
Reynolds mentioned: “Ultimately, like every trade you need it to self-perpetuate and proceed rising. You do not need to lose cash however I do not believe both people are on this to earn money both. So it is with regards to rising the most productive conceivable membership and discovering price in anywhere we will, whether or not that is monetary or emotional: once in a while that is indistinguishable.”
Asked if they still hoped to reach the Premier League, the pair said it was “100%” possible.
Reynolds said: “Of course our goal is to get to the Premier League – why wouldn’t it be, if we can do that? Whether it takes five years, whether it takes 20 years, that’s the goal, that’s the mission.”
McElhenney mentioned media experiences suggesting they’d misplaced £3m since taking up the membership didn’t “take into account so many different things”.
He mentioned: “We don’t respond to it because we know what the truth is, which is that the club is certainly on its way to becoming sustainable and that’s what our goal is.”
Wrexham council’s lead member for the economic system and regeneration, Nigel Williams, mentioned the promotion was once “a fantastic momentous occasion for Wrexham”.
The Wrexham AFC leader government, Fleur Robinson, mentioned the parade was once a possibility to thank the group “for their incredible support”. “We are looking forward to commemorating a truly memorable and record-breaking season together,” she mentioned.
Fans of the staff have change into aware of seeing high-profile folks on the floor because the takeover by way of the Hollywood actors, whose possession of the staff is the topic of the Disney+ docuseries Welcome to Wrexham.
Last month, Paul Rudd cheered at the staff to the victory in opposition to Boreham Wood that secured promotion.
In February, Will Ferrell was once pictured having a pint of beer with soccer enthusiasts on his first discuss with to look at Wrexham in motion.