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Film stars bring glamour to Welsh football outpost

Wrexham has surprising new owners and while most fans in Britain dread Americans taking over their clubs, so far at Wrexham the signs are good

PARIS – Wrexham will bring a rare sprinkling of stardust to the fifth tier of English football when they belatedly kick off their National League campaign at Solihull Moors on Saturday.

The club from the market town and former mining hub in northeast Wales only missed the promotion playoffs for a place in the Football League by one point last season, but that is not the reason for the upsurge in optimism.

Wrexham has surprising new owners and while most fans in Britain dread Americans taking over their clubs, so far at Wrexham the signs are good. One of them is also very big.

Last weekend, huge white letters imitating the famous Hollywood sign but spelling out…

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