[light music]
♪ ♪
PAUL: They've been brilliant all season, Notts County,
and, um, you can ask the lads,
I'd looked forward to that game for months.
Um, I knew it was gonna be a massive game.
And I knew I had to be right for it.
PERSON: Yeah. No, yeah.
PERSON: No, yeah.
PERSON: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[crowd chanting]
[rock music]
CROWD: [clapping] Wrexham!
THOMAS WYNNE LEWIS: I suppose from quite early on,
uh, I think everyone could see
that Notts County were gonna be serious challengers
to Wrexham this year.
ANNOUNCER 1: They got runners in, has pulled forwards,
and Palmer squares it.
Must be a goal, is a goal.
ANNOUNCER 2: And it's Notts County who strike first.
WYNNE LEWIS: Uh, I didn't expect Notts County
to--to be as--as good as they are.
And how well they've done, just unbelievable, really.
ANNOUNCER: Langstaff!
SINGERS: ♪ So go ahead, make my day ♪
It's a shame we got such a good team
going side by side with us all season
'cause normally, we'd have won
the league comfortably by now.
ANNOUNCER: Mullin!
He's done it again.
He just can't stop scoring goals.
SINGER: ♪ I think it's time to play ♪
We are relentless. We keep picking up points.
It's brilliant.
But also, you've got that you're always
looking over your shoulder and you're checking.
And it's almost deflating sometimes
when you think, yeah, and Wrexham scored again.
And, oh, OK.
And it's--it's still there.
Best season we've had in our history, 100 points.
And we both deserve to go up at this stage.
ANNOUNCER: What a fantastic finish.
Beat Notts County, that's the biggest, uh--
the biggest issue at the moment.
Everybody knows that's a massive game for both teams.
You know, we've probably shown we're
the--the best side in this division
and--and we're a team to beat.
And you can't ask for much more than that.
Well, we'd love to have a win, obviously,
to keep up, uh, the pressure on the--the County.
Putting pressure on Notts County.
Pressure on Notts County.
PERSON 1: Notts County. PERSON 2: Notts County.
PERSON 3: Notts County. PERSON 4: County.
PERSON 5: County. PERSON 6: County.
Notts County, if you're watching, please lose.
[laughs]
SINGER: ♪ Hey, I'm gonna do it my way ♪
♪ I think it's time to play ♪
SINGER: ♪ Don't forget where you came from ♪
♪ Don't forget what you're made of ♪
♪ The ones who were there ♪
♪ When no one else would care ♪
♪ Don't be afraid to cry now ♪
♪ Even when the world comes crashing in ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Don't forget to sing when you win ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Don't forget to sing when you win ♪
[upbeat music]
HUMPHREY: So the season is winding down,
and all eyes are turning
to Wrexham versus Notts County at the Racecourse.
This is a titanic clash.
Whoever wins this game is likely to end up
top of the tree, and that's where we want to be,
because come the end of the season,
we want to be champions rather than going through
the whole rigmarole in the playoffs,
which, as we know,
doesn't always turn out the way you want it to.
Both leagues being on course to break
the National League record for points in a season,
103, held by Fleetwood Town, is crazy.
And the fact there's still a month to play in the season
and we're already on 100 points each is insane.
It's like that saying, you know, you wait, uh, forever
for a bus to come, and then two turn up at the same time.
Except these buses have got
that sort of James Bond type button
in the accelerator wheel
that kind of blows off like a rocket.
But couple of days before that,
we just have the small matter of Halifax away.
Boys, done up some TikToks.
HUMPHREY: And, you know,
Halifax struggled a bit this season.
So, you know, surely this could be an opportunity for us
to just go and have a-- a pretty straightforward
three points there, you know, get things wrapped up
so we can go into Monday
with a little bit less stress, you know?
[laughter]
BAZ: Well, it's Good Friday.
It's 6:30 in the morning, which means only one thing.
Match day, baby.
We traveled to Halifax today, taking 4,000 fans.
Notts County coming to the Racecourse on Easter Monday.
ALL: ♪ Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ♪
Up the Reds.
Let's go.
It's a massive weekend. Two massive, massive fixtures.
Huge games.
I think it's gonna be a 4-nil win.
A Paul Mullin hat trick and a Elliot Lee 4-yard screamer.
PERSON 1: Uh, Wrexham will win today 3-1.
Mullin will probably get 1, get taken off.
Uh, Tozer 2.
PERSON 2: Ooh, Tozer. - Yeah.
3-1 Wrexham. Paul Mullin brace.
3-1 Wrexham.
PERSON: How long have you been a Wrexham supporter, ma'am?
56 years. PERSON: Yeah!
[crowd chanting indistinctly]
♪ ♪
What a day this is, Halifax away,
the next big game that we need to win.
With 4,500 fans traveling, plus the form we're in,
I can't see Halifax getting anything.
Yeah, come at us now!
MARK: So if we can win today
and then win at Notts County on Monday,
we will have virtually won it.
So let's do it.
Come on!
MARK: And away they go.
[Phil shouting indistinctly]
MARK: And he works it over to the right.
Cook now can have a go at Mendy.
He tries to play a cute through-ball.
Mendy read it well, intercepts.
It's lovely to see Mendy playing again.
SHAUN HARVEY: It's been a really difficult season.
We've got a group of players who got injured...
ANNOUNCER: Free header for Tunnicliffe.
Hits the bar.
HARVEY: But are now coming back
at exactly the right time to help us get promoted.
PHIL: Brilliant, Jacob. PERSON: Hey!
JACOB: In the first half of the season,
me getting injured,
it was a really frustrating time for me
because all I wanted when I signed here
was to play and, you know, prove everyone
that I'm good enough to play in this team.
But now I'm back, and I hope
to help the team with my performances.
♪ ♪
MARK: Driving over the top,
asking Dalby to get there.
Defender lets it bounce.
And Dalby tackles him in the box.
Can he use this? He pulls it back to the edge.
Lee takes on and beats his man.
Left-footed shot.
Yes!
Wrexham take the lead.
Elliot Lee,
after some fabulous work by Dalby to win it back.
PHIL: Went a goal ahead going into halftime.
I think there was a feeling the job was done.
CROWD: Wrexham!
PHIL: Was there one eye on--
on Monday's game against Notts County?
We had been on such a good run, 28 games unbeaten.
Maybe there was that little bit of complacency.
And we've got to make sure we keep the lads grounded.
MARK: Wrexham lead at the break 1-nil
through Elliot Lee's superb goal.
Cannon.
Cut out there by Gilmour.
Alli in space.
And he's able to turn.
Milli Alli into the box, hits it.
And it's a great finish again.
And Milli Alli equalizes the count.
Yeah, Wrexham just gave Milli too much time to turn there.
Foster at full crouch.
Couldn't do anything about it that time.
It's all level within two minutes of the restart.
[dramatic music]
Halifax had just qualified for Wembley.
They knew they were safe.
They had, uh, nothing to play for
other than bloodying our noses.
Very dangerous opponent to have.
♪ ♪
Just got their tails up
and just kind of made it difficult for us.
MARK: Mendy wins the header
and nods it into the box.
Held up well by Mullin, who comes out wide
and gives it back to Mendy.
Mendy again to Mullin.
Mullin, lovely change of feet, beats his man.
And a cute ball in the box.
Space now for Lee.
It is blocked.
[crowd groaning]
To be fair, we just need to make sure
we get that second goal pretty quickly here now.
Settle nerves a bit.
MARK: Barnett, who turns and plays a great ball
to the feet of Mullin.
Mullin tried to be cute,
couldn't squeeze between two men, though.
And now here comes Alli again.
He's got an overlap.
But Alli is gonna drive inside again.
And he beats Cannon, gets in the box,
step over, shot, scores!
Oh, Wrexham behind.
[yelling]
PHIL: We didn't start the second half well.
we didn't respond like we norm--normally would.
MARK: And Alli might latch on to this again.
Finds Dieseruvwe.
Fucking hell, Johnson.
MARK: Back to goalie, turns.
Oh, my goodness me.
♪ ♪
Makes it 3-1 for the Town!
Oh, my God! 3-1!
MARK: This is a disastrous second half for Wrexham.
Mistakes there again.
Being penalized.
[whistle blows] That's it.
Absolute disaster for Wrexham.
I don't think I'm overstating that at all.
It's all gone sideways over here.
Even Foster looked poor.
Makes you question whether he's in condition right now
for this grueling league pace.
He was just on the couch a couple of weeks ago.
BEN: When these goals go in, sometimes you think,
can I still do this?
Like, I would have saved that last year.
I know I would have saved that last year.
Can I still do this? Should I still be doing this?
Why don't you just give it up? Just give it up. Just let go.
This is rubbish. You don't need this.
Do you know what I mean?
MARK: Wrexham lose 3-1 at Halifax.
It was a big, big chance for Wrexham
to tee things up beautifully for Easter Monday.
And instead Easter Monday becomes an even bigger game
than we thought it was.
We will go into that match
level on points with Notts County.
I don't--yeah. Yeah.
That was--I did not expect that.
And--and why wouldn't I expect that?
This is fucking football.
We fucking played Oldham last week.
We fucking dominated the game.
ELLIOT: It was probably one of our worst performances
of the season.
I think you get that in--in--in run-ins.
I think you-- there--there's high pressure.
And come in, 5,000 fans is incredible,
but it's also, there-- there is more pressure.
PHIL: That's the first time I've seen us
where we're under a bit of pressure,
I think, hold up, me lads.
Fucking come on.
Fucking 20 fucking record-breaking amount of games
fucking unbeaten by showing fucking courage
and fucking bottle to do the right things,
and all of a sudden, we look like a fucking team
who fucking didn't want to fucking defend.
PERSON: Hey, we're not too disappointed.
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it.
Keep the faith.
PHIL: First of all, for-- for Wrexham supporters--
see, the club's had a-- a history
of not getting over the finishing line
in this division.
And you can imagine, on the way back, it was,
here we go again.
PERSON: How you feeling? - Rubbish.
Rubbish.
BEN: Um, so yeah,
the--the game was an absolute shambles.
Rightly so, came under a bit of criticism.
Probably the worst I've seen.
They need to really pull something out of the bag now
on Monday.
If they don't, playoffs is the best we can hope for.
And we're not good in the playoffs.
Removed social media off my phone
because I was gonna say things I'd live to regret.
You know, fans panic.
Fans--fans get nervous.
But to see some of the absolute nonsense
that people are tweeting and saying, after we'd just gone
28 games unbeaten, I just had to bite my lip
and delete it because that's just the way
the world is at the moment.
Everyone wants a rise.
And they weren't gonna get one that night.
These are the times where you need
to stay away from your social media,
your Twitters and Instagram.
Um, you know, some of the biggest sports outlets
are making, like, pictures and thumbnails of me saying,
it's a disaster that you signed.
Today is a-- is a real reminder for us, um,
that in--in any game of football,
there's no divine right
that you're just gonna turn up and win.
You have to be strong as a team,
um, and you have to be resilient because in any game,
in any game, the opposition are gonna have periods,
um, where they're on top.
And today is a bad day.
Um, but let's see what we're all about on Monday.
PERSON: Cheers, Phil. - Thank you.
[dramatic music]
MARK: Possibly the biggest Easter weekend
in Wrexham AFC history.
It's a--it's a big one, isn't it, Tim?
TIM: Yes. It's seismic.
A lot could hinge on it.
Notts County, Easter Monday, 3:00, sold out.
Exciting times.
MARK: And it's nervous times, I think,
for, uh, every Wrexham fan
who knows, uh, how things have gone for us.
♪ ♪
JULIE: I think we've perhaps been a little bit,
you know, resting on our laurels.
And we can't do that against Notts County.
JACQUI: Not against Notts County.
I mean, you know, they are a brilliant side.
And, you know, the two deserve to go up.
It's just a shame that it's such a competition,
that this, you know-- JULIE: Yeah.
[sighs] So tight.
I've seen this so many times.
JACQUI: I know, Dad.
They're gonna do it, Dad, this time.
For your 99th year, they're gonna do it.
Well--
We don't want to hang on for your 100th.
We want it this year.
We're greedy.
[laughter]
I mean, look at the money it's costing
to stay down in this league.
Yeah, I know.
And--and that's what I worry,
that they'll get fed up of,
you know, investing in the club.
I know they've said they're here for the long term.
Yeah.
But when the bills keep coming in--
you know, we made a loss again this time.
You know, we need to get back in the league
to try and claw some money back.
JACQUI: Mm.
[upbeat percussive music]
ROB: Let's talk about how much money we're losing.
Let's talk about how much money we're losing.
HUMPHREY: So it's loads, isn't it?
RYAN: Yes.
HARVEY: It's expensive. RYAN: Quantify loads for us.
Um, a--uh, very much.
Yeah. Cheers, everyone.
HARVEY: Ultimately, last-- last financial year,
there was a ££4.8 million cash introduction.
That sits on top of the 2 million, obviously,
when you bought-- when you bought the club.
And obviously, you've continued to fund the club
going--since then, you know, to what will be the tune
of another ££4 million this season.
You know, so, you know, it's the big ten.
RYAN: Yeah.
I'm gonna go throw up.
HUMPHREY: Well, thankfully, your money paid
for some real nice, uh, toilets back there
that you can go and throw up in.
RYAN: It did, yeah.
So that's the sort of thing-- that's sort of where--
RYAN: I was gonna use the urinal.
HARVEY: 10 million is the headline figure.
Of course, that's the snapshot in time
of how much it's cost, not how much is it worth.
If you were to sell the club today,
you know, you would get far more than the ££10 million
you ever paid.
So I think that's the actual realistic metric.
Let's just say we're in it for the rest of our lives.
At what point-- at what point do I get paid?
HARVEY: Well, it's the-- it's the--it's the memories.
It's the--the memories are what you get paid.
ROB: The memories. HARVEY: Yeah.
You'll be able to leave it to your children.
RYAN: Just put--just put a dollar figure
on validation, Rob McElhenney.
Do that for me.
I've been trying to do that for--that's my--
my entire career is based on that.
You can't start to make money until you get promoted.
Now, there's lots of owners in League One
and League Two will tell you, you can't
make money there either. RYAN: Yeah.
HARVEY: But the value that's coming
from the global appeal that we've been able to create
is going to offset those additional costs
that we've--that we've created.
The biggest thing that's gonna change on promotion
is not actually we're gonna play in League Two,
which does bring more money,
gets us into the mainstream.
But actually, also, people can see the value
of Welcome to Wrexham.
They can see the value of the profile that's being built.
And that's when the additional sponsorship revenue can be
generated on the back of that, which will give us
what everybody else in the EFL will moan
like buggery about next year, an unfair advantage.
RYAN: Yeah.
And my message to them is, sod 'em.
[laughter] HUMPHREY: Hmm.
I have different words, but I like that.
HARVEY: Yeah. - I like that a lot.
[Bach's Brandenburg Concerto Number 2]
♪ ♪
When do we see the new kits?
HARVEY: About three weeks.
RYAN: Uh, it's obviously red home.
Is it black away or white away?
HARVEY: Red home. White away.
Black third choice. RYAN: Uh-huh.
HARVEY: Now, in the National League,
you can't have a black or a navy shirt,
as things stand. RYAN: Uh-huh.
HARVEY: So we took a bit of a punt on getting promoted.
Let's just say, theoretically, we don't get--
we don't get promoted.
How--how much money do we-- will we have in sunk costs?
HARVEY: We've got about 10,000 black shirts coming.
The black--the black shirts--
I like taking the gamble on the black
because they're cool.
Rob, all you've ever talked to me about
is wanting a black kit.
Yeah. HUMPHREY: Yes.
I--I love the black kit. It's my favorite one I've seen.
HARVEY: Absolutely, I just hope we can bloody wear it now.
We've also proposed a rule change
to the National League... - Right, right.
HARVEY: That, uh, you know, these referees need two
or three different colored shirts.
We could pay for the referees, though, couldn't we?
Pay for the referees' jerseys.
I don't mean buy them off. Can we do that?
ROB: Is that an option?
HARVEY: Not on camera. - OK.
HARVEY: Rob and Ryan are fully committed to making
the business of the club financially sustainable.
But for us to be successful,
we need to get out of the National League.
And as the end of the season closes in
and the pressure begins to grow with, you know,
Notts County's unbelievable form,
that will become even more intense.
I have never in my fucking life
been this wound up for a match.
Leading up to the Notts game,
what happened before with Halifax
created a kind of a--
for me, a kind of vortex vise grip of anxiety and dread.
For all intents and purposes, whoever wins this game
is going to win the league.
Now, there's a mathematical possibility,
regardless of the outcome of today,
that either one of the two teams could win.
But it is highly unlikely.
[sighs] RYAN: Yeah, fuck.
You couldn't have found a better way
to, um, um, increase tension
and agony in my body, at least,
uh, leading up to the biggest--
quite literally, the biggest game
or match for Wrexham in, what, decades?
- Mm-hmm. - I don't know.
Is it too late to actually switch allegiances to--
for our docuseries to just cover Notts?
ROB: It's a pretty good story.
It's an amazing story.
ROB: It's an amazing story.
Macaulay Langstaff, he can fuck off.
RYAN: Yeah. God, that guy's good.
ROB: Handsome too. RYAN: Handsome as fuck.
Looks like he's in Peaky Blinders.
ROB: It's bull-- it's some bullshit.
I'm not going to enjoy watching him play.
Nope.
He's gonna be right there.
[tense music]
[bells tolling]
PERSON: Lord God, we thank you for the city
in which we live and work,
for the diversity of its population,
its visitors, and supporters.
For by their lives, they make Wrexham the place it is
and a good place too.
So the morning of the Notts game,
we were awarded the Freedom of the Borough award
from, uh, Wrexham Council, um, which is quite an honor.
Which, if I'm not mistaken, grants us certain privileges...
It does.
In the town that we have yet to exploit.
Or have we?
We thank you for the opportunity
that the football club brings this city.
Amen. ALL: Amen.
RYAN: I don't think I was actually present
or spiritually in the room.
I was just thinking about Notts County.
[applause]
ROB: Uh, thank you.
Obviously, it's--it's, uh, an incredible honor to be here.
One of the great things about football
is that it's a great unifier.
I've been able to forge these connections
between people who live all the way across the world.
The point is that no matter how different you might feel
than someone else, you know that when you sit
and you watch that game at the Racecourse
that we're all united and we're all together.
And, uh, I'm--I'm truly honored and blessed
to--to have been accepted into this community.
Thank you. This is just an--an incredible honor.
Thank you.
[applause]
The thing that kept me present throughout that experience
was, um, thinking about the bigger picture:
so many people who went through the struggle
to get us to this point that we're at right now.
Rob and I, we don't really look at running this club
as ownership or even as cochairmen.
We believe that we're stewards to this club
and this community.
And we believe that we are stewards to the story.
I heard a woman say, well, why can't it ever be us?
- Yeah. - Why can't we ever win?
And she was talking about the football club,
but she was talking about so much more.
And I don't pretend to believe that just winning
a football game or winning the football league
is going to bring people
everything that they've ever wanted.
But I think if--if-- if it brings them
just at least a feeling of hope and optimism,
then I'm--I'm very proud of that.
In a sense, I'm embarrassed to say
there's a "fake it till you make it" moment there
that suddenly, like in a romantic comedy,
you--you find yourself in the third act going,
but then I actually did fall in love.
[laughter] And--and we did.
We are head over heels.
And I would say that the only real
pain points, uh, for me and, I know, for Rob
are that we feel this whole community
in our hearts and on our shoulders
as we go into games like today.
When--when it doesn't go our way,
it's the community that we worry about.
All I can really say is, I'm just so grateful
to each and every one of you for, uh, this incredible honor,
uh, which I will hold with me for the rest of my days,
uh, but also just for welcoming us into your club,
your community, and this story the way you have.
Um, it's an honor and a privilege to be a part of it.
So thank you very much.
[applause]
[indistinct chatter]
That is--that is the thing.
Even Ben Foster said this is the hardest league.
[light music]
♪ ♪
Oh, you're taking the mick.
PERSON: ♪ We're on our way ♪
♪ We're on our way to the football league ♪
♪ We're on our way ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Goodbye! Goodbye!
[people chanting indistinctly]
♪ ♪
[crowd cheering]
♪ ♪
PERSON: Just a few short days after the devastating loss
to Halifax, Wrexham are at home today
for the biggest match of the season
against fierce rivals Notts County.
ELLIOT: It's not just two teams having a good season.
It's two teams having record-breaking seasons.
And it is a--it is a shame that we both don't go up
automatically in this league.
But, um, yeah, it should-- it should be a great game
and--and victory well earned.
And--and I'm hoping that's for us.
PERSON: Whoever wins today will go on and take the title,
and with a match of such importance,
everyone will be watching.
The Racecourse will be packed,
and the football world will be tuning in
from Wales, the UK, and beyond.
It's the only show in town.
[crowd chanting indistinctly]
The rest of the world has jumped on my train.
They've jumped on the Wrexham Express
And you're about to feel what it's like.
You know, Hollywood watching, ESPN watching,
America, Australia,
everyone around the world who are Reds.
I don't care if you've just been watching
for five minutes; I don't care
if you've been watching all your life.
But we're all in this together, man.
And this whole world
is coming with us on this journey.
[light music]
ROHAN: So I'm out here in Los Angeles,
about to leave for Wrexham to watch the Reds play.
And I'm also gonna see my best friend, Ani, there.
We haven't met in a very long time
because he lives in India and I moved to the U.S.
♪ ♪
But when the documentary came out,
we both started reconnecting
through watching Wrexham games.
And so we made a pact that, all right,
the next time we meet,
it's got to be at the Racecourse
watching the Reds play.
So we went to Expedia, and we booked our trips.
♪ ♪
And hopefully, we're gonna see them make history.
♪ ♪
And we're here.
♪ ♪
Oh, my God.
Dude.
How's it going, man?
ANI: It's been a fucking while, huh?
♪ ♪
WAYNE: One pour in. One pour in. Spirits.
We got a security guard stood over there
where Darren is, so they're--
they're not gonna all crowd upon you.
He'll tell them to wait. You've just got to shout, next.
Any questions? PERSON: No.
WAYNE: After Halifax, we'll tell you,
Wrexham's has had its doubters, still has its doubters.
Um, well, obviously, you will have disappointments
if the worst was to happen.
But I don't really want to give that a thought.
I'm not--not worried in the slightest.
We can't do anything about that game.
I mean, ultimately, we have to move forward as a club.
This journey that the football club is on,
there's nothing like it.
It's literally the beating heartbeat of the town.
It just feels like we've been working towards this season
for 15 seasons.
And I've never been more confident about anything.
We'll--we'll win this league.
Thank you very much.
Good luck.
PERSON: Enjoy your day.
I'm still confident.
End of the day, you know, we've lost, what, 1 in 26?
And I think it's an overreaction.
I think, you know, they're human.
We all--they've lost one game.
[The Declan Swans' "It's Always Sunny in Wrexham" playing]
♪ Less than a mile from the center of town ♪
♪ A famous old stadium's crumbling down ♪
♪ No one's invested so much as a penny ♪
♪ Bring on the Deadpool ♪
♪ And Rob McElhenney ♪
♪ ♪
Thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
CROWD: Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!
I believe in this team. And I always do.
And I'll never stop believing.
And I believe in this manager.
And I believe in everyone around the club.
It's our turn.
15 years.
Now it's our turn.
It's got to be our turn.
It's time to--to believe.
Put Friday--Friday's gone.
It's happened.
Put it behind us.
Move on.
Let's get behind the boys.
ANNOUNCER: The first time in any of the top five divisions
that two teams have reached 100 points in the same season.
County lead the way on goal difference,
which of course makes today's meeting even more crucial
to the outcome of this National League season.
From the final whistle at Halifax, I was excited.
I could not wait. I couldn't sleep.
I had adrenaline coursing through my body
for the full two days beforehand
'cause I could not wait to play that game.
[indistinct chatter] PHIL: Hello.
HUMPHREY: We only had that short turnaround.
I mean, there wasn't time to wallow.
There wasn't time for recriminations.
It was just, right, let's get on with it.
Like, they're so keyed up.
They want to take it out on someone.
The only people they can take it out on
are--are Notts County, really.
We're better than what they fucking are, right?
When we get it, we go for the fucker today, OK?
PERSON: Yeah. BEN: Fuck them, all right?
Make them shit themselves when they got the ball.
PHIL: Going into the game,
there was excitement
because it'd been built up for this game for so long.
And I think everyone was saying
it is the title decider, almost,
of the biggest National League game in--
in the history of--of the division.
OK, boys, just--just a couple of things.
Key points for us today, performance level.
We know kind of the-- the occasion of the day.
Get control of the game.
Can we come out of tight areas?
These aren't like Halifax, where the two number 10s
will drop in and fucking make it tight.
They'll be fucking high, and there'll be space to play.
We've--we've lost an important game.
Um, however, from our point of view
as a staff and the players,
we need to use that game to galvanize us
for--for the last few games of the season.
Sometimes, yeah, things do go against you,
but one thing, you know, we've always done
is--is respond.
You can see the goal, reset.
Bad decision, just reset as a group and get going again.
What we're all about as a team and what we always fucking do.
Remember what I said to you yesterday,
not just the Sheff United game,
but loads of games where we've rattled
fucking teams' cages here, haven't we?
We've fucking upset them
by fucking pure fucking intensity.
Let's fucking do it to these.
Let's fucking be right on it,
full on fucking pressing all over the pitch.
Come on.
[people shouting, applause]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[crowd chanting indistinctly]
CROWD: Wrexham!
ANNOUNCER: So the day has finally come.
Come on, Wrexham!
ANNOUNCER: A key date in a titanic struggle.
A title race for the ages.
And it could hardly be better poised.
100 points each.
They're about to come out of that fucking tunnel.
[dramatic music]
ANNOUNCER: Two outstanding teams
both chasing one precious prize.
Automatic promotion for one,
the peril of the playoffs for the other.
The stakes at this level
don't get any higher than this.
Biggest game of the season.
Come on, Wrexham.
MARK: Never has there been a season
where two teams in the same league
have reached 100 points.
And here we are.
So much in the way of nerves and tension
coming into this match.
Come on, Paul!
ANNOUNCER: And the atmosphere, I have to say,
is absolutely electric, both sets of fans.
Wrexham!
CROWD: Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham! Wrexham!
MARK: This is gonna be 100 miles an hour
as away we go, and Notts County try
a surprise kickoff.
And Ollie Palmer commits an immediate foul.
And that was a very unexpected kickoff.
They just played it square.
Switched play, ball pickup to Mullin, who helps it on.
Palmer is pulled down to the floor.
Is he--no.
Ref says no. Wrexham not happy with that.
PHIL: Hey, fucking hell!
ANNOUNCER: Palmer seeming to be booed out there,
but there's a wag of the finger from the referee.
So they call that on Ollie to begin the game
but not that there.
- What's up, Phil? - It's like they're dumb.
ANNOUNCER: So the first call of the game
goes the way of Notts County.
Ref is tough.
ANNOUNCER: Mendy will get to this.
He's got Mullin arriving in the box.
Jones is in there too.
It's towards Mullin.
PHIL: Hey!
ANNOUNCER: The referee had a very good view of that.
Palmer is leading the protests.
I think that's a penalty.
It's a push.
I do not understand the thinking there.
That's not good enough.
♪ ♪
Throws down the line, Palmer,
having his shirt pulled all over the place, but--
How are they not calling it? I don't understand.
Palmer there had his shirt pulled up so high,
you can see his sports bra.
But nothing given.
And the referee was on the right side
to see it then, so I don't get that.
Right in front of the ref.
It's weird. It's a hard job,
'cause they're not-- they don't get paid well.
No, it's a brutal job.
ROB: I know. RYAN: And thankless.
ANNOUNCER: O'Connell leads it out
as Bostock puts him under pressure.
Lee under pressure again.
Laser off. Mendy great ball now.
Oh, that side. [whistle blows]
PERSON: I'd like to see a replay on that.
MARK: That's--mm, I don't know about that.
To me, yeah, that looks level.
PHIL: Ref!
MARK: The, uh, referee's getting grief.
To be fair, it's a linesman's call, but--
PHIL: Fucking hell.
[crowd booing]
ANNOUNCER: To O'Connell, [indistinct].
Now Palmer does look outside.
He's given off. [whistle blows]
He's on side again there.
PHIL: Oh, what the fuck?
ANNOUNCER: I think the linesman in the middle
is just on autopilot, just sticking his flag up.
PHIL: Can you not see that?
[person speaking indistinctly]
Did you tell him, though? PERSON: Yeah.
ANNOUNCER: I think Phil Parkinson can have
every right to be aggrieved.
We've counted four or five times
that Wrexham players have been onside
and they've been given offside.
PHIL: Mulls, Ollie, stay cool.
Ref!
That was one of the poorest performances I've seen
from the referees for a game of that importance.
The frustration for us, we'd worked on how we felt
we could exploit Notts County.
And the linesman, time after time,
kept getting the decisions wrong.
He's nowhere near offside.
ROB: Is that six? Five or six.
We're not the guys to talk about offside,
all right? - No.
ANNOUNCER: As we move into added time
at the end of this first half,
a minimum of three minutes.
Nemane with a good header.
O'Brien, can he get his pass away?
He did to Rodriguez, who seemed to be clipped there.
[whistles blow]
And Notts County get the free kick in a great position.
ROB: No. No way.
PHIL: No.
Fuck off.
ANNOUNCER: See how much contact Jones gets here.
Almost feels like Rodriguez tripped himself up.
MARK: Rodriguez has lost a tooth here.
And a really good chance here for Notts
right at the end of the half. PHIL: Hey! Ref!
Ref!
Ref, they need fucking shirts.
And this is definitely a shooting position.
♪ ♪
ANNOUNCER: This is a real tester now for Ben Foster
to get his rule right.
He'll certainly be expecting this to go towards his goal.
MARK: Could be a really big moment
in this game and in the season.
Let's see.
Well, fourth minute of added time.
This is--
Please don't let them score.
ANNOUNCER: It's Bostock.
♪ ♪
It's absolutely brilliant.
MARK: Great goal by Bostock.
Tore it into the top right corner.
ANNOUNCER: Sensational strike to give Notts County
the lead in the biggest game of the season.
They are shell-shocked, Wrexham.
And this is a huge, huge goal.
MARK: Notts County take the lead in added time
at the end of the first half.
That's a fucking joke.
ANNOUNCER: Wrexham trail at halftime
of with this massive, massive match.
♪ ♪
Have a seat, boys. Have a seat. Have a seat.
Whether the refs got a few fucking wrong or not,
the pressing's been fucking great.
We've had opportunities.
If we keep going the same way,
there'll be more fucking chances for us.
Just keep doing it.
But make sure--make sure
that goal doesn't fucking knock us.
Make sure it doesn't, because honestly, lads,
you've fucking done well.
You've fucking done well. We look fucking dangerous.
Look like we can fucking get goals here.
Keep resetting as a fucking team.
There's 49 fucking minutes to go, isn't there?
Come on. Let's fucking go. PERSON 1: Come on!
PERSON 2: Come on. PERSON 3: Come on.
Come on, let's go get that next fucking goal.
[crowd chanting indistinctly]
We're gonna do this, Wrexham!
Come on and do this!
ANNOUNCER: Notts County had to be patient for that chance
and opportunity. [whistle blows]
Going to have to really see what Wrexham
are made of in this second half.
MARK: This is Cannon. Mullin's on the move.
Jones.
Jones had continued his run.
He is right to do so.
On Mullin's end.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
And he scores!
[crowd roaring]
What a start in the second half.
There's the Wrexham reaction.
Fuck yeah!
ANNOUNCER: What a start to this second half.
And it's their go-to man for goals,
Paul Mullin.
CROWD: ♪ Super Paul Mullin ♪
♪ I just don't think you understand ♪
♪ He plays in red and white ♪
♪ He's fucking dynamite ♪
♪ We've got super Paul Mullin ♪
That's one.
ANNOUNCER: His 44th goal of the season
in all competitions.
He's even outscored Langstaff.
MARK: And surely, Williams will want to see Langstaff
get much more into the game.
PHIL: Defensively, we know they've got Langstaff.
Very good players for this level.
Um, but I felt we dealt with them incredibly well
and we're back into the game.
MARK: Macaulay Langstaff hasn't touched
the ball yet, Adam.
The ball inside. Barnett sets himself.
Throws it to the far post.
[crowd yells]
Oh, hit the pole. What a strike.
ANNOUNCER: Very nearly scored.
[crowd yells]
O'Connell with a free kick.
Mullin makes a curve draw.
And O'Connell plays it in.
Brilliant Paul Mullin down the right side.
Squares it.
Mendy is there.
[crowd cheering]
There's that Racecourse roar again.
They turned it all around.
Mendy arriving at the back post.
ROB: Mendy, buddy! - Mendy!
[crowd chanting indistinctly]
CROWD: Wrexham!
The euphoria in the ground was--was something else.
Um, but obviously, my mind was thinking, we're not there yet.
We've still got work to do.
MARK: Here's Austin.
Austin weaving his way through.
Austin!
Notts County have reacted well here.
ANNOUNCER: A brilliant save as well as a good reaction save
from Ben Foster.
Oh, corner, corner, right-hand side there.
Look out for the quit.
ANNOUNCER: Thomas pull over.
Cameron!
Notts County have leveled it!
Captain's goal from Cameron.
All square now at the Racecourse.
And this is some game.
MARK: I'm gonna give up guessing now
what's gonna happen because what a second half
we've had, Adam.
BEN: The lads, they are just relentless.
They don't whine. They don't moan.
Um, they just get on with it.
Just keep doing what you're doing.
It's as simple as that.
Just keep doing what you're doing,
like, you know what I mean?
You're gonna get back into this game.
ANNOUNCER: O'Connell now in space at the right.
[indistinct] attacking the far post.
MARK: Oh. It's come here to Mullin.
Oh, it's blocked by Mullin.
Squares it low.
[crowd cheering]
It's Elliot Lee this time.
But Notts County only have themselves to blame.
It's a gift.
ANNOUNCER: Elliot Lee.
Elliot Lee.
MARK: Just when Notts County had got themselves level.
Yes, you do, baby.
MARK: Luke Young is gonna be coming on.
[crowd cheering]
Listen to that cheer for Luke Young.
Wrexham fans delighted to see him back.
He takes the armband from Tozer.
[crowd cheering]
A minimum of six minutes added time.
ROB: Way too much time.
We got to score again.
MARK: The title is very much within Wrexham's grasp,
if they can see this through.
Bajrami. Oh, Mullin's got away.
ANNOUNCER: They can finish it here!
[crowd gasps]
Brilliant save.
He's kept them in the game.
Into a seventh minute of added time.
On what is the biggest day of the season,
is there to be more drama at the Racecourse?
Wrexham under pressure.
It's now or never.
They're appealing Notts County.
He's given a bounty, is he? He's given a bounty.
ROB: That was a penalty shot?
ANNOUNCER: Incredible.
Oh, no.
ANNOUNCER: Such a massive call.
No way.
MARK: I think the fans don't realize
what's going on out there.
ANNOUNCER: Notts County fans have only just realized
that he's given a penalty.
SHAUN WINTER: He's given it.
What?
He--he's given it.
MARK: It seemed to hit a hand, yeah?
It's gonna bounce to Notts County.
ANNOUNCER: He's right to give it.
MARK: That's a good call.
[tense music]
ANNOUNCER: We've seen everything in this game.
It's unbelievable.
Oh, I can't bear this.
Oh, I can't--
ANNOUNCER: What an end to the game.
RYAN: It felt like such a classic Wrexham moment.
Like, let's find some fucking way to extract
the maximum amount of--of terror and anxiety
and edge-of-your-seat shit out of this thing.
MARK: They have been through everything, as fans, Wrexham,
for a long, long time in the National League.
They have suffered their heartache along the way.
This, their 15th season.
There's no side in the division right now
who's been in it longer.
ELLIOT: I thought, surely, not again.
Surely, not again.
MARK: They watch on with hope.
[gasps]
And then all the feelings,
it's all coming back.
Luton away, bit of a comeback, but we still lose.
Wembley, Brett Ormerod missing.
Eastleigh, playoffs, in extra time,
he scores a volley from nowhere.
Grimsby.
Oh, God, it's just-- it's flooding back.
ANNOUNCER: So it's Cedwyn Scott.
♪ ♪
A real pressure penalty.
Can he beat Foster?
♪ ♪
So much tension.
Keep it up, Ben.
Come on, Ben!
ANNOUNCER: Massive moment in the title race.
♪ ♪
Time's gone still.
I've just got my head on the barrier.
Can't watch.
I can't watch.
ANNOUNCER: So now it all comes down to this.
♪ ♪
[crowd cheers] Saved!
Oh!
Oh, my God!
[crowd roaring]
ANNOUNCER: Saved by Foster.
[crowd cheering]
[exciting music]
♪ ♪
ROB: Fucking yes!
ANNOUNCER: Just a brilliant end to this game.
Foster gets the right way.
That is some save.
CROWD: ♪ Super Ben Foster in goal ♪
BEN: That moment there, what--
Feel like I'm getting goose bumps.
Can you see the goose bumps there? Look.
Um, genuinely, one of the best feelings in my career
was that moment.
CROWD: ♪ Super Ben Foster in goal ♪
PERSON: Yes!
Big man just earned his wage.
This is what it fucking means!
Don't you ever question my love of this town!
CROWD: ♪ Super Ben Foster in goal ♪
Yeah!
[crowd cheering]
CROWD: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
♪ ♪
Yeah! Go, Foster!
Wow, you may never ever see him this close to tears.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
One of the greatest moments of my entire life.
I have been characterizing it the exact same way.
Um, aside from my family, which I'm required to say...
- Mm-hmm. - Uh, that was
the greatest moment of my entire life.
Hey, we're the best in the league.
ROB: Sure are.
We're the best in the league.
Now we know. ROB: Now we know.
RYAN: I'm gonna fucking go crazy in that locker room.
I'm gonna kiss Ben Foster on the mouth.
Me too. ROB: On the mouth.
Yeah. Me too.
Let's line it up.
Oh, my God.
PHIL: Listen. Listen in, boys. Listen in. Listen in.
First--first of all, we know we haven't won
anything yet, have we, you know what I'm saying?
We've got to make sure we keep a lid on it
because it's great to win, but we've done fuck all yet.
This is just a step in the right direction.
However, I can't tell you how proud
I am of that performance.
I can't fucking tell you.
You stuck to the game plan brilliantly.
Fucking responded to the defeat at Halifax,
which fucking knocked us.
The way you played was fucking outstanding,
out-fucking-standing.
That's called turning up.
Turning up when the pressure's on.
The biggest non-league game in history.
And you've turned up and fucking produced.
And that fucking means a lot, let me fucking tell you.
PERSON 1: Yeah, well done, boys.
Fucking top drawer.
PERSON 2: Brilliant, boys.
RYAN: Ben Foster, get in my arms now.
Mwah. Mwah. Mwah.
[uplifting music]
Oh, my God.
It don't get better, does it?
You son of a bitch.
[laughter]
What was that about?
You're too old for that.
- I got a cramp when I got up. - I bet you did.
My calf cramped. I said, no, don't do that.
I have so much arthritis medicine up in my bag.
I'm not even kidding. - It will get you through.
It'll be all right. - What the fuck?
That was just bananas. - You couldn't write it.
You can't write that.
You couldn't write it, honestly.
Have a good one.
ROB: I think that's kind of the beauty
of this entire experience is that we don't have
any control over what happens on that pitch.
It just unfolds the way it does.
And you see that the people who are
put in place to thrive in difficult situations
tend to thrive.
CROWD: ♪ Super Ben Foster in goal ♪
HUMPHREY: This win puts us firmly in pole position
to go on and win the league outright
and avoid the nightmare scenario
of going into the playoffs.
But of course, we still have to go and finish the job now.
This is Wrexham.
Nothing ever comes easily.
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
[child giggles, seagull cries]