Rob McElhenney asks if Celtic are protestant or catholic when donning retro kit
The Always Sunny in Phildelaphia star has been celebrating along with fellow Hollywood A-lister Ryan Reynolds after the Welsh club secured a second successive promotion by beating Charlton at the weekend and are now potentially one season away from the Premier League.
Wrexham will now play in the Championship next season, leaving the mega stars potentially just one campaign away from realising their English Premier League dream.
But as McElhenney browsed the classic shirts at AwayDays, he picked out the Hoops home shirt from the infamous 2004/05 season - the one they wore on Helicopter Sunday when a last day defeat to Motherwell handed the Premiership title to Rangers.
Martin O'Neill went on to lift the Scottish Cup the following week, but it's events at Fir Park which still linger in the collective Old Firm memories.
Of course, McElhenney would hardly be aware of the last day title drama in Scotland 20 years ago, saying: "Oh gosh! I might go with this, just because it's Celtic and it's got Irish links. It's just cool. Carling."
McElhenney then tries it on before asking the big questions: "Celtic, who are their main rivals? Rangers? Is it like Ireland where one is Catholic and one is Protestant? And which one is this?"
When the AwayDays rep tells him he's wearing the 'Catholic one', a relieved McElhenney replies: "I'm good."
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