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The Wrexham owner has admitted in an interview that he wouldn't have been able to handle the job had he been any younger.

Wrexham co-owner, Ryan Reynolds, has stated that he's glad that he undertook the job of running the club when he did because "I don’t think this is something I would have been able to handle any younger".

In an interview with the Fearless in Devotion podcast, Reynolds stated that: "I’m glad it happened when we are at the age I’m at. Because I don’t think this is something I would have been able to handle any younger. I wouldn’t change anything about my time here. I don’t know how you get bored with something like this. I love this sport so much now that now I hate it too – I really feel that in my cells."

Reynolds' unprecedented success with Wrexham

Ryan Reynolds certainly has good cause to be happy at the moment after Wrexham earned their third successive promotion and got the club back into the second tier of the game for the first time in more than forty years.

Since they took ownership of the club in 2021, the Red Dragons have been promoted three successive times, the first time that this has ever been done from the National League to the Championship.

Their first season at Wrexham ended in double heartbreak; not only were they beaten in the play-off semi-finals by Grimsby Town after finishing second in the League to Stockport County, but they also lost the FA Trophy final to Bromley at Wembley.

The history of young owners in the EFL is not particularly good

Ryan Reynolds is 48 years old, but the youngest ever owner of a League club in England played a crucial part in its eventual closure.

19-year-old property developer Spencer Trethewy 'rescued' Aldershot FC from a winding up in 1990 with an affidavit to pay £200,000, but he was only on the board of directors of the club for three months before the other directors established that he had borrowed money via a series of loans and had no way of paying them back or further financing the club.

These further debts only exacerbated the club's financial crisis and Aldershot FC folded in March 1992. Trethewy was convicted of obtaining services and property by deception and obtaining credit while bankrupt in 1994 and sentenced to two years in prison, reduced on appeal to eleven months.

Reynolds and McElhenney seem to be the real deal

Four years in, it's clear that Reynolds and co-owner Rob McElhenney are no snake-oil salesmen and that their passion for Wrexham is real.

Their reactions to goals have flashed around the world. Promotion to the Championship is the latest chapter in a story which really does have a hint of the Hollywood fairytale about it.

But in the same interview, he stated that "At this season's first home match, [club director] Shaun Harvey came running over to Rob and I to tell us to stop wishing the away team good luck."

For all their success over the last three years, it seems that there are still some things that he has to learn.