Richard Sutcliffe
Wrexham Writer at The Athletic
Wrexham writer for @TheAthleticFC Views are my own.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe
Wrexham have signed forward Ryan Hardie from Plymouth Argyle. Phil Parkinson's side are preparing for their first season in the Championship for 43 years with Hardie the first arrival of the window. The 28-year-old has signed a three-year deal after an undisclosed fee was agreed between the clubs. Hardie leaves Plymouth after five years, during which the former Scotland youth international scored 74 goals in 248 games.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe
The titles were often gloriously creative and diverse, some paying homage to terrace anthems, others making a clever play on words. Sales were decent, too, with more than one million copies shifted per year at the height of what quickly became a phenomenon. We’re talking about the rise of football fanzines in the 1980s. Those purveyors of insight and irreverence who arrived on the scene when the game was on its knees in a troubled decade and helped spark a revival.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe
When one opposition manager referred to Wrexham as the "Harlem Globetrotters" early last season, the inference seemed clear. That, like the iconic basketball outfit from the U.S., they are an exhibition team; put together as much to entertain with trick shots and fancy, even comic, routines as to win games. The reality, of course, was rather different.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe
Welcome to Wrexham, the documentary charting the ownership of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, has been renewed for a fifth series. Broadcast in the U.S. on FX and on Disney+ in the UK, the show has proved a huge hit since first airing in 2022. A fourth series is currently midway through it's run, charting the 2024-25 EFL League One season that ends in Wrexham clinching an unprecedented third consecutive promotion.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe
After making just one loan signing for their first team in four years as Wrexham manager, Phil Parkinson has already begun exploring that market to improve his squad for the 2025-26 Championship. A run of three successive promotions under celebrity owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney means Wrexham are looking forward to their first season in the second tier of the English football pyramid for 43 years.
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RT @RSooty73: How fanzines helped change football culture, just when the game needed a helping hand. @TheAthleticFC looks back to a time…
RT @RSooty73: Football fanzines have been with us for more than 40 years. Selling more than 1 million copies a year at their peak and givi…
How fanzines helped change football culture, just when the game needed a helping hand. @TheAthleticFC looks back to a time when a combined 1 million copies were sold per year and fans finally had a voice. ⬇️ https://t.co/HmR5Nz2up1
