Richard Sutcliffe

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Wrexham Writer at The Athletic

Wrexham writer for @TheAthleticFC Views are my own.

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Will Wrexham's Hollywood backers spend big this summer to try to reach the Premier League?

3 days 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.
Welcome to Wrexham documentary series renewed for fifth season

1 week 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.
Wrexham are looking to Premier League players to get them fourth promotion in a row

1 week 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.
Director/PDMR Shareholding

1 week ago | sharesmagazine.co.uk | Paul Hayes |Richard Sutcliffe

RNS Number : 3008K Howden Joinery Group PLC 27 May 2025 27 May 2025 HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC (the "Company") NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTION IN SHARES BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES The Company has been notified that, following the payment of the Company's 2024 final dividend on 23 May 2025, the Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") listed below purchased Dividend Shares through the Howden Joinery Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") and/or ordinary shares in the...
Steven Fletcher announces Wrexham departure

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe

Former Scotland international Steven Fletcher is leaving Wrexham after two years at what he has described as "the most magical club I have ever played at". The 38-year-old revealed the decision to call time on his spell at the SToK Cae Ras is "not by choice" as the Welsh side prepare for life in the Championship. Fletcher played a big part in Wrexham's two most recent promotions, particularly their most recent success when clinching runners-up spot behind League One champions Birmingham City.
Why Wrexham will head to Australia and New Zealand rather than the U.S. in pre-season

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe

Wrexham will head Down Under for the first time in pre-season as the club owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney play three games in Australia and New Zealand. After touring the USA and Canada in the previous two summers, Phil Parkinson's promotion winners will visit Melbourne, Sydney and Wellington in July as part of their preparations for the step up to the Championship.
Birmingham rivalry, potty mouths and things get serious

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe

Keeping a long-running TV show fresh is not easy. Far too many series start brightly only to then fizzle out and lose the viewer long before the studios decide to cancel. Only those able to maintain a strong story-telling narrative and characters the audience care about will survive and thrive. Which brings us to Welcome to Wrexham, the documentary charting Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's ownership of a British football club.
How the club, the city and football responded

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe

Forty years ago this weekend, 56 supporters died and more than 200 were injured in the Bradford City fire disaster. In the concluding part of our look-back at the afternoon when triumph turned to tragedy, we outline football's response along with that of the city. Part one can be found here. Only the concrete corner block housing the dressing rooms remains today from the Valley Parade where tragedy struck in 1985.
Who should stay and who should go ahead of Championship season?

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe

Wrexham and their Hollywood owners are about to sail into relatively uncharted waters. Not just as a club, with their last match in the second tier having been a little under 43 years ago, but also in terms of personnel, with no less than nine of a 22-man squad registered for the second half of the 2024-25 campaign yet to kick a ball in the Championship.
'I can still hear the crackling of the timber burning'

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Richard Sutcliffe

Forty years ago this weekend, 56 supporters died and over 200 were injured in the Bradford fire as a discarded cigarette or match sparked what became, at the time, the worst stadium disaster in English football. In the first of a two-part feature, The Athletic speaks to those at Bradford City's Valley Parade on an afternoon when triumph turned to tragedy.