As Covid slows movie making in Hollywood to a crawl, perhaps other actors will look to branch out to keep their star alive
As the third oldest professional football team in the world, Wrexham AFC drags the weight of history behind it. There were the early days, where the team would field 17 players at a time. The war years, when Sir Stanley Matthews briefly became part of the squad. The start of the century, when the chairman attempted to evict the club from its own grounds. And now, perhaps, the strangest. Because Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are the club’s new owners.
Now, clearly Reynolds and McElhenney are not the first celebrities to take over a sports team. Elton John was chairman of Watford for almost three decades, Russell Crowe purchased a stake in the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby team in 2006 and Jay-Z briefly owned a percentage of the Brooklyn Nets.