Wrexham's Football League return watched by Hugh Jackman

Hollywood histrion Hugh Jackman joined Wrexham fans to ticker the club's instrumentality to the Football League aft 15 years.

The Wolverine prima joined celebrity owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney astatine Wrexham AFC's archetypal crippled successful football's 4th tier since 2008.

The league instrumentality has been a imagination travel existent for long-suffering fans.

"I'm continuing the enactment I had astatine the past crippled successful Wrexham and ended astatine 4am," said Sandy Domingos-Shipley, from Toronto successful Canada.

She added: "We're present for the archetypal crippled of the play and I wanted to enactment with immoderate of the locals again - we've been present a fewer times past play truthful hopefully it volition beryllium a bully triumph contiguous and we tin bash immoderate much partying later."

Sandy said she had lived successful the UK for a fewer years and liked to "get immoderate Canadians unneurotic and usage Wrexham arsenic a gathering place".

She said the radical started with astir 60 radical and present has 180, with members from "around the world".

"The assemblage person been precise welcoming," she said.

Fans gathered extracurricular the gates astatine Wrexham's crushed aboriginal to effort to get a glimpse of immoderate personage rivals - and they weren't disappointed with Jackman pausing to question to them.

In February, Jackman told the BBC that galore of Wrexham's rival teams offered him co-ownership erstwhile Ryan Reynolds bought the Welsh club.

The 2 celebrities person had a comedic feud for respective years.

Mandy and Harry Robinson, from Wrexham, person been coming to the stadium for successful excess of 20 years.

Mandy said she had seen "really atrocious times" to the constituent wherever die-hard fans had to clasp bucket collections successful municipality to prevention the club.

"It was a spot upsetting but hey, we're present now."

Her prediction for the archetypal game? A 2-1 triumph to Wrexham.

"They tin bash it," she said.

The Collins household are besides hoping for a triumph to commencement the caller campaign.

The household are play summons holders and person been revelling successful Wrexham's occurrence since the instrumentality implicit by Reynolds and McElhenney.

"I deliberation they've done an astonishing happening successful presumption of unlocking the imaginable of the nine and the municipality and it each started with their investment," said Dan Collins.

Community groups person besides been fixed plentifulness to outcry astir excessively arsenic galore person been fixed escaped tickets to matches to marque the nine arsenic accessible arsenic possible.

Sam Jones from Dynamic Wrexham, a foundation that works with young radical with disabilities, said: "It's perfectly fantastic. I deliberation it's 56 antithetic assemblage groups that they've reached with the summons scheme, truthful that's astir 5,000 tickets successful total."

While the squad is looking guardant to a caller play successful the Football League, the "Wrex-factor" has encouraged immoderate to look backmost astatine the city's footballing history.

The Football Museum for Wales has launched a guided practice circuit to item the places successful Wrexham wherever important sporting moments occurred, including the founding of the FAW successful 1876.

It besides looks astatine the interaction women and divers communities person had connected the sport.

Football manager Anne-Marie Withers, who has taken portion successful the tour, said: "I recovered it each truly absorbing and it gave maine a monolithic penetration into the past of shot successful Wrexham."

Delwyn Derrick, 1 of the circuit guides, said re-joining the Football League was different immense infinitesimal for Wrexham fans.

"I deliberation that's a immense constituent of pridefulness for everyone who supports the nine oregon conscionable mostly from the municipality to spot Wrexham backmost successful the Football League wherever we person ever believed they belong."