Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are developing a new stadium for the Wrexham football club with the coal mining industry at its forefront. The 46-year-old McElhenney said, “It was always in the plans when we were working with the local architects and engineers about the design of the new cop (stadium),” on Tuesday, October 14. “We wanted to make sure we were honoring the coal mining industry in any way that we could.” He said, “We wanted to find ways in which we could just be pretty overt with our respect.”
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In the eleventh episode of season two of Welcome to Wrexham, viewers were first exposed to the 1934 Gresford Colliery Disaster, in which 266 miners perished in an underground explosion.
The memorial for all the victims of the disaster is housed in Wrexham’s Miners Rescue Station, which is next to the Wrexham AFC racecourse. Constructed in 1982, McElhenney showed his father the memorial during the episode. An abandoned colliery wheel is one element of the memorial that McElhenney and Reynolds intend to include in Wrexham’s new stadium.
Earlier in the second season of Welcome to Wrexham, McElhenney and Reynolds disclosed their intentions to enlarge the football stadium. The pair stated in the first episode, which aired last month, that they would require £20 million, or $25.5 million, to finish the new racecourse.
The “biggest and most expensive piece” of owning a football team is the stadium project, according to Humphrey Ker, executive director of Wrexham AFC. McElhenney and Reynolds, however, are in need of “more seats to get a stadium international standard to bring Welsh football back to the racecourse,” Ker clarified, as they hope that Wrexham is promoted to the English Football League. Warning: this April saw Wrexham promoted to the English Football League for the first time in fifteen years. As Welcome to Wrexham season 2 draws to a close, the events are scheduled to be highlighted.
The history of Wrexham’s mining sector was the subject of the first of two episodes that were released on Tuesday; the second part followed the Wrexham Women’s Football Club as they achieved historic status.
In March, the women’s squad received a Tier 1 license with the intention of moving up to a semi-professional division.
Wrexham CEO Fleur Robinson said at the time, “I would like to thank and congratulate our Head of Women’s Football, Gemma Owen, and colleagues [for] their hard work in ensuring we were granted a Tier 1 license.” “We know we still have one very big game to go in our ambition to be a Genero Adran Premier team, and we are all eagerly looking forward to next month’s play-off match against Briton Ferry Llansawel.” In April, the women’s squad defeated the Ferry Llansawel team from Britain 1 to 0, earning them a promotion to the Genero Adran Premier League. They are presently regarded as a team that is semi-professional.
