Having finally escaped the National League, the future is bright for Wrexham

While even the most cynical among us genuinely struggle to find anything unpleasant to say about the job Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have done since taking over as Wrexham owners, if we had one bone to pick, Football Daily would suggest that their presence at the Racecourse Ground does tend to distract from the coverage of the actual football being played. While it’s hardly surprising the camera loves them given the success they’ve achieved in their day jobs, those from BT Sport border on harassment in their obsession with cutting away to the duo if Wrexham win so much as a throw-in, let alone promotion back to the Football League after an absence of 15 years.

It’s difficult, then, to imagine either McElhenney or Reynolds getting more screen time across 162 episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and two Deadpool movies, respectively, than they did during BT’s coverage of Wrexham’s win over Boreham Wood on Saturday. And while both celebrity owners were visibly emotional to see the team in which they have invested so much time, money, energy and what appears to be genuine love go up, their delight was nothing compared to that of the long-suffering fans who invaded the pitch at full time, before celebrating long into the night at the nearby boozer, The Turf.

“Everything I own smells like champagne, beer and grass,” hooted Reynolds on Social Media Disgraces in the wake of their promotion as champions, in the kind of message you just don’t expect to see from Joel Glazer, Stan Kroenke or the notoriously abstemious and clean-living Mohammed bin Salman. “I’m still somewhere between giggling and sobbing. This town and this sport is one of the most romantic things on Earth. Thank you, Wrexham AFC.” It is important,