Wrexham Pulled Off an Insane Comeback vs. Swindon
By Liam McKeone

Everybody's favorite FOURTH-tier English Football League team had a match on Saturday and it was an absolute doozy. Wrexham AFC kicked off its season last week and hosted Swindon today as everyone gets warmed up and playing high-level football again. Wrexham went down big early, falling behind 4-1 in the first half. But if Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds' squad has taught us anything, it's that Hollywood endings do actually happen in real life, so it would be silly to count Wrexham out.
Wrexham clawed its way back in the second half and managed to close the deficit to 5-3 after a goal in the 71st minute. But they appeared to run out of gas and entered extra time still down by two scores.
Then that Hollywood magic kicked in and Wrexham somehow scored twice in extra time to tie it all up. The Racecourse fans were rocking by the end. The announcers were in ecstacy. As they say: absolute scenes.
WREXHAM 10 GOAL THRILLER π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ 96' EQUALIZER against Swindon. Entire Racecourse Ground Explodes. Even Ball boy just trying to do his job, but nearly passes out from joy. pic.twitter.com/7bYnld2osk
β Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) August 19, 2023
To illustrate just how ridiculous the whole match was, just look at this tweet listing out the 10 goals scored.
17β Wrexham 0-1 Swindon
β Nathan Salt (@NathSalt1) August 19, 2023
27β Wrexham 0-2 Swindon
29β Wrexham 1-2 Swindon
31β Wrexham 1-3 Swindon
34β Wrexham 1-4 Swindon
51β Wrexham 2-4 Swindon
55β Wrexham 3-4 Swindon
71β Wrexham 3-5 Swindon
90+2β Wrexham 4-5 Swindon
90+6β Wrexham 5-5 Swindon
Long live the EFL. pic.twitter.com/mYnqH5jmAh
Wild stuff. McElhenney was watching along and summed it up pretty neatly.
Never. Ever. Ever. Leave a @Wrexham_AFC game
β Rob McElhenney (@RMcElhenney) August 19, 2023
Season 2 of Welcome To Wrexham should arrive this fall and it seems like Season 3 will get off to a banger start. Can't wait to watch.