Welcome To Wrexham: Episodes 5-6 Review
As the season progresses, Welcome to Wrexham sees Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney give their club perhaps their greatest gift yet, one which goes a long way towards ensuring the club’s history remains intact.
However, the two episodes delivered this week are not just about sports, nor how the two men managed to use their influence to get the club inFIFA 23, instead, the docuseries turns its focus again on the people that inhabit this small town, as well as one very special player. “Fearless” is the title for the fifth episode, which perfectly handles the juxtaposed images of the on-field battles with a fan’s plight to defeat cancer.
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The man of the hour is none other than Rob Lainton, Wrexham’s goalkeeper since 2018, so anyone paying attention to the series will know that is quite the rare feat at these lower levels of football, even for a goalie. Lainton’s profile is also used so that viewers can become familiar with the intricacies of his position, one where just a single mistake can be the difference between wins or losses, promotion or salvation, and a player’s stellar performance being completely forgotten by fans.
Goalkeeper is also one of the most dangerous positions in football, given the number of aerial challenges they have to engage in, a topic that doesn’t slide past Laiton who’s shown to have suffered health-threatening concussions recently. Fearlessness is something every keeper needs to command his area, and the same goes for Michael Hett, the frontman for the Declan Swans, the local band that penned the club’s new anthem “Always Sunny in Wrexham.”
In case anyone’s wondering Hett is alive and well, and the cancer survivor is still an active content
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