Wrexham’s A-List owner Ryan Reynolds and Hollywood pal Hugh Jackman celebrate the Welsh soccer team’s ‘HUGE’ FA Cup 1-0 victory to book its place in the third round
Ryan Reynolds hosted a famous guest at his apartment to watch the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.
Reynolds, a part owner of Wrexham AFC, posted a photo of himself with Australian actor Hugh Jackman.
The photo was captioned, ‘Watching @WrexhamAFC in the @EmiratesFACup with Prisoner 24601.’
That last bit there is a reference to when Jackman played Jean Valjean in the 2013 movie adaptation of the musical Les Miserables.
One response to the tweet was from the FA Cup account itself, which said, ‘Thought that was The Greatest Showman?’ – a nod to another one of Jackman’s roles.
Another twitter user replied, ‘Now retired, Deadpool [Reynolds] and Wolverine [Jackman] spend their time in the retirement home doing jigsaw puzzles and reminiscing on the good days.
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Wrexham co-owners react to latest Wrexham FA Cup win
Wrexham played Shrewsbury away in the third FA Cup round this afternoon (January 7) in a tough game which resulted in a 1-0 win – securing their place in the fourth round.
While Ryan attended the League Two Colchester United game last month at the STōK Cae Ras, he watched today’s intense FA Cup game back home overseas.
Thomas O’Connor scored the winning goal in the 72nd minute leaving Red fans on the edge of their seats as Shrewsbury missed two close chances to equalise during the six minutes of added time.
Perhaps Rob and Ryan will be in town for the next game on Saturday, January 13 against AFC Wimbledon at the Racecourse.
