Two years later, Wrexham won the National League and returned to the Football League after 15 years owing to its trans-Atlantic celebrity owners’ £10million investment.

Wrexham isn’t the only traditional football club attracting American attention. The Netflix documentary ‘This is Wrexham’ contributed to the club’s recent success and rise in US appeal, and now another famous Hollywood actor wants in.

On Friday, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, the world’s highest-grossing male actor in 2020 and a former WWE champion, expressed interest in utilizing his production firm to film a fly-on-the-wall series about struggling Southend United.