Rob McElhenney on Why Wrexham Should be Your Second Club 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 

I would say they compliment each other. Neither of them have the egos that they should have, considering their personal exposure and their work ethic in their field. They're just applying the confidence that they have in what they do, and apply it to a formerly, non-league football club. They both have an emotional intelligence they allows them to write and perform comedy, and they have passed the British "smell test".

It's a North American duo... as a Canadian I can't let Ryan Reynolds be considered an American. It's practically law here hahaha

@@MrSchnuffswhere has he lived the majority of his life?

@@alexanderrose1071 BC lmao

You’re welcome!

"When a football club represents a city" Not sure what this has do with promotion/relegation. It would be nice to get rid of (or at least: greatly reduce) expansion fees in MLS/USL. That's probably the most direct result of pro/rel: you win your way into a league, instead of paying for it. That'd reduce the overhead for creating a team (just start small and work your way up). It'd also remove a lot of incentive to threaten relocation to a team if they aren't gifted massive taxpayer handouts (which, to be fair, is a serious problem in North American major leagues across all sports). So, maybe to the extent that pro/rel can get rid of that sort of Blackmail-by-Franchise-Owner, it might make a team represent its city more. As for the rest... maybe? It's a big deal to get promoted (to a top league, seems like diminishing returns on the excitement for yo-yoing around the various minor levels), but that's a double-edged sword. Teams that get promoted into a top league aren't exactly a big threat, and teams that get relegated are damaged in a way that makes it hard to compete even if they come back up. This is probably why it's so exceedingly rare for pro/rel systems to have any measure of parity. England is probably the most top-to-bottom competitive league in the world (certainly among the top leagues, I'd say it is), and it's a very small group of teams that ever have a chance of actually winning a title there. The only way to break into the top 4/6 is (a) just get a massive influx of likely-questionable-money and buy your way there (see: Man City and we'll see if Newcastle can do it), or (b) a once-in-a-generation overachiever (Leicester, and we've seen how long lasting that was). Turnover in that Big 4 (or 6, depending how you look at it and how generous you want to be) is insanely slow, if it happens at all. The end result is the rich getting richer. I suppose you could hope for FFP (or something akin to MLS's salary cap) to have enough teeth to level the playing field, but failing that: Every single other team in England has about the same chance of being champions of England as my son's U9 team does. A Minnesota United or Charlotte FC fan is pretty much infinitely more likely to see an MLS Cup than a Sheffield United or Fulham fan is likely to ever chase, much less see, a Premier League trophy. And this is the league with the parity. Every other big time league is even worse (Bayern's monopoly in Germany, RM/Barca's duopoly in Spain, etc.).

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@Edgy62, I think most of us in the US know soccer is a British term (as is "rugger" for rugby, btw). It's just that MOST fans in the UK prefer the term football, probably because that's what it's called in the rest of the world.

Don’t over-complicate things for our American friends *lol*

I remember it being called soccer in Ireland when I was younger, 40+ years ago.

I'm from Liverpool, Toxteth specifically and I've never once heard anyone call it Soccer. It was always footy. Anything else and you were in danger of being a wool. I know it was the case back in the old times but no one calls it soccer today. you know what I mean? Southern Americans speak proper British I believe but we don't go around saying "Y'all" anymore. The fact is in this day and age the Americans call it Soccer (probably because of us) but we call it footy or football if you're a shandy drinking Tory from down south.

No one in Europe calls it soccer, we call it football

He was brought in early to help organize and professionalize the entire operation. As he worked for the EFL beforehand, his role was important in helping them understand how they had to operate within the English football world. He even helped visit stadiums when Rob & Ryan were looking to decide what team to buy. So yes, he plays a large role. He probably deals with Humphrey Kerr more than Ryan & Rob, but Humphrey is supposed to be their representative.

Life is too short to go thru that miserable, especially for something we all have no control over (as a sports fan). If your club played 55 matches a year, that is just 110-125 hours of football'ing hope & distraction. Considering we get 8700+ hours a year, I'm sure most people's brain-width and available time can manage a second club. The people who only care for one club are really limiting themselves, don't know what they are missing, and bound to be disappointed.

@jasonmoore5824 What are you taking about? It's not miserable at all. I love one club, watch all their games whether at the stadium or tv and on top of that watch as much football as I wish as there is so much on offer.

@@jasonmoore5824if you’re from the UK it’s the norm to support just one team. You may have a soft spot for one or two other teams but you only support one team. Luckily for me mine is Wrexham, I wouldn’t even entertain the idea of supporting a second club.

@@dewiwilliams4821when he says “second club,” I don’t think he expects fans of other clubs to love Wrexham as much as their first. Just to have a soft spot for them. Watch some of their games when they’re on and available. Things like that.

Agreed. The questions were fine, but the value of interview was diminished by Rog needing to read everything off his crib cards. This is fine in a radio interview if you don’t need to see or be seen by your interviewee.

Personally, I think Rog is one of the best interviewers in all of sports media. He usually gets a lot of personality out of people and is super high energy/entertaining himself. But this was far from his usually high bar. Rob has almost done so many interviews about Wrexham over the last few yrs (and I feel like I've watched them all), I feel like his median energy has lowered a fair bit in things like this (almost like he knows he can best tell the story through the show itself). But felt like Rob came into this one with a renewed excitement, probably because he knows Rog is that good at what he does, that he's that funny/creative. But as it moved along, it felt like Rog zapped Rob of his enthusiasm. I'd had this set aside to watch since it was posted, and i'm sorta bummed how it came out. (Makes me wonder if it was at an ungodly hour or there was an outside reason that this wasn't Rog's best work.) My four cents on it...

Success always brings haters.

@@tony7044 I don’t hate them. I’m pointing out what the constant media attention is causing amongst football fans. It’s becoming tedious.

@@GazEndo68 meh, for some maybe. I'm sure we can sing loud enough to drown them out.

@@gdhaney136 I’m on a lot of football forums and I’d definitely say I see more dislikes than likes. As a Stockport fan I have no issues with the club other than the attention seeking owners desire to make a very historical club into a tedious self indulgent soap opera.

@@GazEndo68 not the owners or players doing that, its the media. and Brits whinge in general, its endemic to British culture to complain

Well Mullin is a scouser anyway so that makes it easier :)