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"Welcome to Wrexham," will trace the efforts of
the two actors, both of them novices when it comes to British
soccer, to improve the fortunes of the small club which has
never competed in top-flight English soccer.
Reynolds, the star of superhero comedy movie "Deadpool," and
McElhenney, the creator of TV series "It's Always Sunny in
Philadelphia," bought Wrexham in February from the club's
supporters, who owned it.
The club said the actors had invested some 2 million pounds
($2.76 million) as part of the takeover deal.
"We can never truly ‘own’ the world’s third oldest club. All
(we) can do is try to improve the club for its true and forever
owners – the community of Wrexham," McElhenney tweeted on
Tuesday.
FX said the series would "track Rob and Ryan’s crash course in
football club ownership and the inextricably connected fates of
a team and a town counting on two actors to bring some serious
hope and change to a community that could use it."
FX did not say when the documentary series would air in the
United States, or whether it would be available in Britain.
The actors announced the series with a tongue-in-cheek video on
their social media accounts, featuring a Welsh translator.
"There is no way these two can manage a football club. And the
one with the toupee thinks Wales is in Scotland," the translator
says in Welsh.
Wrexham, known as the Red Dragons, was founded in 1864 and
currently plays in England's fifth-tier soccer league.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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