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Washington Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Wrexham falls to West Brom 3-2 at home for back-to-back losses in Championship
WREXHAM, Wales — Wrexham is still searching for its first points in the Championship after a 3-2 loss to West Brom on Saturday. Celebrity co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney were on hand at the Racecourse ground for Wrexham's first home game in the second tier in 43 years.
The Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Sun
Wrexham vs West Brom live stream: How to watch huge Championship clash for FREE
WREXHAM will host West Brom for their first Championship clash back at the Racecourse. Phil Parkinson's side were dealt late heartbreak in their second-tier opener away at Southampton last weekend. 2 2 The Red Dragons were 1-0 up with minutes remaining, but two late Saints goals from Ryan Manning and Jack Stephens saw them leave St Mary's with nothing. Parkinson has bolstered his squad this week with striker Nathan Broadhead arriving from Ipswich for a club-record £10million fee. Wrexham will be looking to get on the board this afternoon, but West Brom will present a difficult test for the newly promoted side. Ryan Mason's Baggies got off the mark on opening weekend, beating Blackburn 1-0 at the Hawthornes. The former Tottenham midfielder will be looking to lead Albion back to the Premier League after a four-year absence from the top flight. This afternoon's clash is one of the standout matches of this weekend's Championship fixtures - and you can catch it all for FREE! How to watch Wrexham vs West Brom FREE Wrexham's Championship clash with West Brom will be broadcast live on ITV1. You can live stream all the action for free via the ITVX app/website. Wrexham vs West Brom will kick off at 12.30pm BST with coverage on ITV beginning at 12pm. The match will also be broadcast live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football. Sky Sports customers can live stream the game on the Sky Sports/ NOW app.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
A missing Kop and a San Siro pitch - changes to Wrexham's home
The club that has spent £20m on players – but has only has three sides to their to more specifically, for some of the former Premier League sides set to make a first trip to north Wales in decades, welcome to the Stok Cae commonly known as the Racecourse, Wrexham's home is arguably Welsh football's spiritual home too and remains the oldest international ground in the world still in having staged Wales matches since 1877, it is now preparing for its first Championship game in 43 just a 10,500 capacity - following the removal of a temporary stand - it will be the smallest stadium in the second tier this unsurprisingly under the ownership of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, there are big just as the team and the club's fortunes have been transformed since the Hollywood takeover, the stadium is the first major steps were taken this summer requiring more than just a lick of new paint - although that has been done too. 'Future proof' plans With Saturday's lunchtime visit of West Bromwich Albion bringing more eyes to the old ground than ever before, the first sight that will strike many is the lack of fans behind one decades, The Kop had been the terrace where the most ardent of Wrexham fans watched their following relegation from the Football League in 2008, it stood empty. Condemned, it was eventually demolished when the new ownership plan was always a new Kop, but amid delays, a temporary one was installed in time to squeeze in an extra 3,000 supporters to witness promotions from Leagues One and there was always going to come a time where that end of the ground would have to be empty once more, in order for work to begin on a new all-seater Kop drawn up by the same architects behind the new Tottenham Hotspur pencilled-in for 5,500 seats with the option to increase capacity, the club revealed in July they had submitted an application for a further 2,250 seats as part of a second a completion date of next summer, it will mean a Cae Ras capacity of around 18,000 - bigger than both Brentford and Bournemouth's homes - with standards compliant with Uefa so Wales qualifying fixtures can while the club were aware it could cost them in terms of numbers, noise and even competitive advantage as they reached the Championship, the new Kop forms a key part of plans to "future proof" the club with new hospitality areas and vital facilities all part of the project. Those tuning in or turning up for the first time, though, will not see steel girders going up just the temporary stand is fully removed and the area cleared for work, there is little other visible difference on first significantly, a vital new building has been erected near the Turf - the pub which backs onto the ground and where the club was discovery underneath the Kop Stand area of a power cable feeding the nearby university halls of residence had previously delayed creation of a new electrical substation has now cleared the way for construction. Once planning, paperwork and other contractual red tape is finally and formally sorted, the club could be looking at breaking ground this without steel in the sky, there are other fresh nods to how the old ground is dressing rooms set to be in the new Kop, the manager's areas have switched sides in Parkinson and his staff now sit on the same flank as the hospitality areas where Reynolds and McElhenney watch where the manager used to cast an eye over his team, the club have established a new hospitality 'Dug Out Club' option for fans. 'Is it made from human hair?' What also grabs the eye is a state of the art new surface, a pristine pitch laid for the new season in a new it may bring a wry smile from Reynolds and McElhenney whose first real glimpse into the perils of ownership was caught on camera when they were told a £100,000 new pitch lain in 2021 needed immediate redoing at twice the years on, Reynolds queried whether the latest pitch proposed was "made of human hair" when he was told their plans for a new pitch would come in at £ Wrexham believe the investment is worth every penny. As well as the new Uefa-standard hybrid pitch - which chief executive Michael Williamson has compared to the one his former club Inter Milan boasted at the San Siro - new irrigation, drainage and undersoil heating systems have also been also provided new sockets for rugby posts to open up the possibility for union and league fixtures returning to the ground which has held internationals in both codes in the race against time to have it bedded in was aided by the side's automatic promotion - an appearance in the play-offs would potentially have delayed the process by six workers were seeding by June, before round the clock stitching through July ensured the deadline was hit and a stunning green carpet will greet the sides this weekend. As well as being slightly raised, the new pitch has also shifted the in with the bigger redevelopment plans, the pitch has moved by around two metres towards the would-be Kop - which has in turn seen a new TV gantry repositioned to keep its place on the half-way line, providing extra space for the added interest as well as the now standard tactical a reverse angle camera gantry has been installed, again to tick boxes not needed when languishing in new ways have been found to insert hundreds of extra seats to try and make the most of every available vantage point. Screens - which will eventually be huge and housed on the new Kop - have been moved to provide clearer are new handrails, new bigger, brighter LED boards (again, meeting Uefa specifications for international games), and more 'fast-flow' beer taps rolled out after a successful of course, there will be a new red shine to the metalwork after the obligatory lick of new paint as one of the game's oldest grounds gets ready for a bright new future.
NZ Herald
07-08-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Horse racing: Stamina the key to West Coast's Grand National four-peat attempt
Mark Oulaghan is hoping the extreme distance of tomorrow's Racecourse Hotel 150th Grand National Steeplechase will play into the hands of West Coast, as his champion jumper attempts to rewrite the history books at Riccarton. The adored 10-year-old has won the last three editions of the National, becoming the second
Leader Live
17-07-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
Former Wrexham and Wales striker Wyn Davies has passed away
Affectionately nicknamed 'Wyn the Leap', Davies' long career took in the 1960s and 1970s, and he was capped 34 times by Wales. Caernarfon-born Davies scored six goals in 34 appearances for his country between 1963 and 1973. He began his professional career at the Racecourse between 1960 and 1962, scoring 21 goals in his 55 appearances. Notably, he was a major part of Wrexham's biggest ever win. Back on March 3, 1962, Davies was one of three hat-trick scorers in the 10-1 thrashing of Hartlepool United, joining Ron Barnes and Roy Ambler in grabbing a treble. He made over 550 appearances in the English Football League after beginning his senior career at Locomotive Llanberis and his hometown club, Caernarfon Town. After departing Wrexham, Davies also played for Manchester United, Manchester City and Newcastle United, where he won the 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - later known as the UEFA Cup. For Wales, Davies made his debut against England at Ninian Park in Cardiff. His first goal came in 1964 against Scotland in a 3-2 victory. A Football Association of Wales statement said: "The thoughts of everyone at the FAW are with the family and friends of Wyn Davies during this difficult time."
