Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Sheep know more about football...
Ryan & Rob’s new Wrexham AFC video
HOLLYWOOD stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney have poked fun at themselves once more in a new comedy Wrexham AFC video.
It again stars the Welsh translator who appeared in a previous clip pouring scorn on the Hollywood duo, who bought the club in 2020.
This time the pair promote a range of club Christmas cards and gifts adorned with Welsh phrases disparaging the actor-owners.
A print of a sheep has a caption translating as: “This sheep knows more about football than Rob and Ryan.”
A mug is captioned: “Break this over your head if Rob and Ryan start discussing football”, and a pillow has the message: “We wish you a Merry Christmas free from Ryan’s jokes.”
And two Christmas cards translate as: “Merry Christmas from two incompetent idiots,” and “Let the owners be eaten by dragons.”
Journalist Maxine Hughes played a translator in the earlier promo for their Welcome to Wrexham series on Disney+ which tells the story of
their takeover. In it she said in Welsh of the unsuspecting pair: “There’s no way these two can manage a football club.” And she continues the running joke in the new footage as Deadpool star Ryan, 46, says in a voiceover: “This year, the world got to know our team Wrexham AFC.”
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Rob, 45, adds: “And now, we’re bringing that same Welsh spirit to your holiday gifts with the subtitle collection.”
Ryan says: “Designed by us and translated by our Welsh friend, Maxine. I love how these turned out. “And Maxine, you’ve checked that the translations will go over OK?” Maxine tells him: “I think they’ll go over more than OK.” The gifts are available from the Wrexham AFC website with proceeds going to the Ty Pawb Community Centre.
Welcome to Wrexham has been such a hit that global sales of club merchandise have soared from £59,000 last year to over £360,000. paul.byrne@mirror.co.uk @Paulbyrnemirror
Let the Wrexham owners be eaten by dragons CHRISTMAS CARD FROM WREXHAM AFC