It seems like Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have a (not-so-friendly) rivalry on their hands with Tom Brady in Welcome to Wrexham season 4.
In the trailer for the fourth season of Welcome to Wrexham, Reynolds, aged 48, humorously mentioned Bermingham FC and their player Tom Brady, expressing relief that Brady isn’t playing. He also questioned if Brady is even allowed to participate in the match.
Reynolds and McElhenney, also 48, jointly acquired ownership of Wrexham football club in Wales in 2020, while Brady, aged 47, later joined as a minority owner of the Birmingham team in 2023.
Brady acknowledged in the trailer that there is a competitive dynamic at play between them, hinting at a not-so-friendly rivalry. It appears that Brady will have a showdown with McElhenney at some point during the upcoming season.
One clip from the trailer showed Brady reacting to a joke McElhenney made in season 1 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
“Maybe break his arm,” McElhenney says as Mac in the show. Costar Kaitlin Olson as Dee responds, “You can’t break Tom Brady’s arm.”
McElhenney was all smiles while looking back at the scene but Brady, maybe, didn’t find it too funny. (McElhenney is famously a Philadelphia Eagles fan while Brady played for the New England Patriots for nearly 20 years.)
“What’s wrong with you?” the former football star asked.
Celebrity rivalry aside, Welcome to Wrexham season 4 will follow the Wrexham football club as they play in League One — and attempt to get promoted for the third year in a row.
Spoiler alert, the team was promoted from League One to the Sky Bet Championship League for the first time in 40 years on Saturday, April 26.
“We’ve been with Wrexham for what seems like the blink of an eye, but so much has happened,” Reynolds captioned an Instagram post on Saturday. “I remember the first press conference, we were asked what our goals were … and I think Rob jumped in with, ‘The Premiere League.’ People laughed. They had every right to. It seemed insane… But we weren’t kidding.”
The Premiere League is the highest level of professional football in the U.K. — and Wrexham is now only one promotion away.
“We made history. We’ve been promoted for a record third time in a row,” Reynolds continued, in part. “The Stadium feels like a church. I know so many of you now. Since February 2021, I’ve watched babies become regulars. And some regulars depart us for good. We’ve had the honor to scatter ashes of loved ones across that field. I’ve even watched every available hand shovel snow off the pitch to keep a match from cancellation.”
He concluded: “Somebody said the Welsh have the ‘heart of a poet and the fist of a fighter.’ That’s what I love about this place.”
