Hollywood stars buy lowly Welsh football club – with big dreams

Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have bought one of the world’s oldest football teams and plan to document their first foray into the sport in a fly-on-the-wall TV show.

In a pinch-yourself moment for success-starved fans of Welsh club Wrexham, Reynolds and McElhenney completed a $US2.5 million ($A3.4 million) takeover of a team that plays in the fifth tier of English football.

“This is really happening,” Reynolds, a Canadian-born actor best known for starring in the…