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Jan 18, 2025 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
WITH progress on the new Kop stand made this week, it’s time to dream! The oldest international stadium in the world has a storied history, and is looking forward to an even more remarkable future. Obviously, we have to be realistic. We’re not going to be building our own Emirates Stadium any time soon. However, realism isn’t what it used to be.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
Phil Parkinson (Image: PA) LET'S take some time to salute Phil Parkinson. His feat of 1,000 games in management, brought up last Saturday, is truly remarkable. He’s only the 35th gaffer in history to achieve that number in the English pyramid, and boasts the 16th best win percentage. That’s a superb feat when you’re being compared to managers who have achieved enough sustained success to stay in the game for so long. Of course, he’s been a phenomenal success for us in so many ways.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
LET'S hear it for Ollie Palmer. With all these exciting new signings that have been coming in over the last couple of seasons, it’s good to see that old warhorse is still indispensable. He ended a scoreless run of 13 games last Saturday, which may well have been on his mind: certainly, the chattering classes were fixated on his barren spell. I think that’s missing the point though.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
2 1/1 YOUR fortunes can change quickly in football. Just over a week ago we were preparing for another Arthur Okonkwo clean sheet at Stockport, while Will Boyle and Luke Bolton were looking forward to showing what they could do in our match at Port Vale. Now, all three of them are looking at weeks off the pitch through injury. It’s an indication of the precarious nature of a career in football. Things can change around so quickly.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
Rob McElhenney. Picture: PA JUST when you thought it couldn’t get any more exciting, the crazy ride with Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds gets even more wonderful. No, I’m not talking about the dead rubber fought out last Tuesday by Port Vale reserves and the Wrexham players on the fringe of the first XI! The BBC Stoke commentator behind me summed the occasion up perfectly by describing its conclusion as “a totally pointless penalty shoot-out in front of an empty stand”.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Mark Griffiths
After allegedly sending messages detailing cannibalistic fetishes, Hollywood actor Armie Hammer hopes to relaunch his career with a new podcast and movie. Following the 2021 social media cannibal scandal, Hammer was also accused of rape and abuse by various women, but consistently denied any criminal behaviour and was not charged. Now, it seems, Hammer is laughing off the cannibalism allegations. Speaking to his first podcast guest, Tom Arnold, Hammer says, “I’m not gonna lie.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
WREXHAM, WALES - 3RD NOVEMBER 2024: Wrexham goalkeeper, Liz Craven during the Genero Adran Premier fixture between Wrexham Women and Briton Ferry Llansawel Ladies at The Rock, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham. 3rd of November, Wrexham, Wales (Pic by Nik Mesney/FAW) READING an online season preview of Wrexham’s Women’s team certainly made me raise my eyebrows. It suggested that the Reds hadn’t recruited particularly well in the summer and were in for a campaign of regression.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
A COUPLE of weeks ago the away end at the New York Stadium regularly broke out into a familiar refrain: “You’re only here for the Wrexham”. They had a point. Rotherham wasn’t the only club to draw in a bumper crowd when we came to town. Every away game we’ve played this season has attracted the biggest crowd of the campaign so far for our hosts. It’s a remarkable indication of the pull Wrexham exerts these days. Of course, it’s not just this season that we’ve been packing them in.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Mark Griffiths
After allegedly sending messages detailing cannibalistic fetishes, Hollywood actor Armie Hammer hopes to relaunch his career with a new podcast and movie. Following the 2021 social media cannibal scandal, Hammer was also accused of rape and abuse by various women, but consistently denied any criminal behaviour and was not charged. Now, it seems, Hammer is laughing off the cannibalism allegations. Speaking to his first podcast guest, Tom Arnold, Hammer says, “I’m not gonna lie.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
leaderlive.co.uk | Mark Griffiths
FOR once, I’d give a penny for Rotherham manager Steve Evans’ thoughts. Evans was in the stand on Saturday, serving his second touchline ban of the season for abusing officials. Those of you who have followed Wrexham’s many skirmishes with him, going back to our dramatic last day showdown with his Boston United side in 2007, will suspect he’s watched more games in the crowd than the dugout over the course of his career.
