The man of the hour is none other than Rob Lainton, Wrexham‘s goalkeeper since 2022. 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 FC 25 Coins 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 creator with the band getting tons of attention after this episode‘s premiere. It‘s impossible to know at which point during the seasons these interviews are filmed, but the creative and editing staff behind Welcome to Wrexham has done a great job at tying them together with the team‘s pivotal moments.

More than anything, by putting Wrexham‘s youngest fans, volunteers and community in the spotlight, this episode acts as the perfect preamble to “Hamilton” (no, not that Hamilton). The latter takes a small detour from today‘s affairs to look back at the club‘s tougher times, when Alex Hamilton‘s ownership almost destroyed the historied football team.

At the heart of it all is the club‘s stadium, the Racecourse Ground, the oldest international football arena in the world and part of what makes Wrexham AFC special, because let‘s not forget Reynolds and McElhenney purchased one of the sport‘s oldest professional teams. British stadiums are different to most buy FC 25 Coins football pitches in the world, because they are exclusively used for football, a trait that allowed architects to bring crowds right next to the players and that is often used in some of Welcome to Wrexham‘s shots to capture the excitement that brings.