{"id":48538,"date":"2023-10-25T03:59:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/rob-mcelhenney-ryan-reynolds-will-honor-wrexham-history-with-stadium\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T03:59:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:59:44","slug":"rob-mcelhenney-ryan-reynolds-will-honor-wrexham-history-with-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/rob-mcelhenney-ryan-reynolds-will-honor-wrexham-history-with-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds Will Honor Wrexham History With Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rob McElhenney<\/strong><\/a> and Ryan Reynolds<\/strong><\/a> are putting Wrexham\u2019s coal mining industry at the forefront when designing a new stadium for the Wrexham football club.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always in the plans when we were working with the local architects and engineers about the design of the new cop (stadium),\u201d McElhenney, 46, shared during the Tuesday, October 14, episode of Welcome to Wrexham<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe wanted to make sure we were honoring the coal mining industry in any way that we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWe wanted to find ways in which we could just be pretty overt with our respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tenth episode of Welcome to Wrexham season 2 introduced viewers to the 1934 Gresford Colliery Disaster, where an underground explosion killed 266 miners.<\/p>\n

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Located near the Wrexham AFC racecourse is Wrexham\u2019s Miners Rescue Station, which is home to the memorial for all the lives lost in the disaster. During the episode, McElhenney took his father to see the memorial, which was built in 1982.<\/p>\n

One part of the memorial that McElhenney and Reynolds hope to incorporate into Wrexham\u2019s new stadium is an abandoned colliery wheel.<\/p>\n

Earlier in Welcome to Wrexham\u2019s second season, McElhenney and Reynolds revealed their plans to expand the football stadium. In the premiere episode<\/a>, which aired last month, the duo said they needed \u00a320 million (which converts to $25.5 million) in order to complete the new racecourse.<\/p>\n

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Humphrey Ker<\/strong>, the executive director of Wrexham AFC, previously explained that the stadium project is the \u201cbiggest and most expensive piece\u201d<\/a> of owning a football team. However, as McElhenney and Reynolds are hoping that Wrexham gets promoted to the English Football League, they are in need \u201cmore seats to get a stadium international standard to bring Welsh football back to the racecourse,\u201d Ker explained.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert \u2014 for the first time in 15 years, Wrexham was promoted to the English Football League<\/a> this past April. The events are set to be showcased as Welcome to Wrexham season 2 comes to an end.<\/p>\n

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While the first of two episodes released on Tuesday focused on the history of Wrexham\u2019s mining industry, the second followed the Wrexham Women\u2019s Football Club<\/a> as they made history.<\/p>\n

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The women\u2019s team was granted a Tier 1 license in March in hopes of being promoted to a semi-professional team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to thank and congratulate our Head of Women\u2019s Football, Gemma Owen<\/strong>, and colleagues [for] their hard work in ensuring we were granted a Tier 1 license,\u201d Wrexham CEO Fleur Robinson<\/strong> shared at the time<\/a>. \u201cWe 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\u2019s play-off match against Briton Ferry Llansawel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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