It was proposed that Reynolds and McElhenney might attack the Red Lichties.
Before Ryan Reynolds took control at Wrexham, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds talked about purchasing Arbroath. When the Hollywood celebrities acquired the Welsh team in 2021 with the intention of turning them into a Premier League team, they shocked the football world. Humphrey Ker, the couple’s British business partner, claims that Arbroath might have benefited from their Tinsel Town-tinged wealth. Executive director of Wrexham Ker, in an interview with BBC Scotland’s “Sacked in the Morning” podcast, described how the Lichties were debated and ultimately fired.
“So right off the bat, Rob [McElhenney] said, well, what about a club in Ireland?” the speaker stated. because Scotland, Northern Ireland, or Ireland are the origins of his family. And I have to admit, I was a little bit of a party spoiler since I thought the English game’s ceiling was that much farther away. Because my undergraduate roommate was a Red Lichties supporter, I have to go to Arbroath to support my preferred Scottish football team.
In the end, I stated, “you would face Celtic and Rangers if you went to Arbroath and we injected money and built that team and you got into the Premiership pretty quickly.” Ker claimed that this was what ultimately led Reynolds and McElhenney to choose to purchase their way into the English leagues—albeit through a Welsh club.
“It would be quite quick to go from Arbroath right now to a sort of mid-table Scottish Premiership team,” he continued. And then there would be this issue where the huge dudes there would just keep hitting on you. It would just be challenging. And to use Ireland as an illustration. You would become the League of Ireland’s unbeatable champions fairly fast if you choose Dundalk or someone like. “So what do you do after that? You enter the Champions League and get humiliated by a Greek team, and that is much the same pattern every year.
In the end, we decided that we had to follow the English system or go to England.
