Ryan Reynolds came out of Sunday with two feelings he couldn’t separate. He didn’t try.
The Deadpool actor and Wrexham AFC co-owner posted on X after the club’s latest match. He addressed supporters directly. He wrote: “I am completely gutted by today’s result but incredibly proud of our season. We’ve come a long way in five years and this was the best result in our 150+ year history. More to do. But for now, we have so much to be proud of, Reds.”
The post drew over 52,000 likes and nearly 3,000 retweets.
I am completely gutted by today’s result but incredibly proud of our season. We’ve come a long way in five years and this was the best result in our 150+ year history. More to do. But for now, we have so much to be proud of, Reds. pic.twitter.com/qPQywrC0mA
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) May 2, 2026
“Completely gutted” and “best result in 150 years” sitting in the same message is the whole story. Wrexham didn’t get the result they wanted on Sunday. But they reached something no version of this club had reached in over a century. Both things are true, and Reynolds wasn’t going to pretend otherwise.
Reynolds and co-owner Rob McElhenney took over Wrexham AFC in 2020. McElhenney is the creator of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” The club was in the National League at the time. That’s English football’s fifth tier. It was a historic name with nothing to show for it in the modern game.
The takeover became a documentary series, “Welcome to Wrexham,” on FX and Hulu. The show followed the ownership through wins and tough stretches. It had real stakes every matchday. People who had never heard of Wrexham started watching. It also made Reynolds and McElhenney publicly accountable. Most celebrity sports owners never face that kind of scrutiny.
That accountability seems to have shaped how Reynolds talks about the club. He doesn’t do corporate spin. Sunday’s post is a good example. It’s honest about the disappointment and honest about the pride. No attempt to make one feeling cancel out the other.
Wrexham supporters, known as the Reds, had every reason to be skeptical five years ago. Celebrity ownership in football has a mixed track record. It often means money and marketing without much actual connection to the club. Reynolds and McElhenney dealt with that skepticism by showing up. They stayed visible through the hard stretches. Supporters notice those things.
Five years in, the results have backed up the talk. The club climbed out of the National League and kept going. That climb has been real and consistent. Sunday’s milestone now sits at the top of 160-plus years of club history. Reynolds acknowledged it without overselling it.
His sign-off to “Reds” is a small detail worth noticing. That’s the Wrexham faithful’s name for themselves. It’s not in any press guide. You learn it from being around the club.
The loudest line in the post is “more to do.” Reynolds didn’t close the season with a bow on it. He flagged it as a step. That language comes from someone already looking at next year. Not back at this one.
Wrexham AFC was founded in 1864. That makes it one of the oldest professional football clubs in the world. For most of those years, the club sat well outside the spotlight of the English game. Sunday’s result changes the ending of that story.
Reynolds hasn’t said publicly what’s coming next. No squad news, no transfer targets, nothing on the club’s direction for next season. That silence is normal at this point in the calendar. But Sunday’s post doesn’t read like someone winding down.
Getting gutted and proud at the same time is a specific sports feeling. It usually means you got further than expected. You just didn’t finish. Reynolds put both things on the record, plainly.
For a celebrity sports owner, that’s a pretty clean statement.
