It’s Always Sunny in Wrexham, by Andrew Foley Jones, Price: £5.99
AFTER all that’s happened at Wrexham over the last few years, it’s not surprising that someone would use it as the inspiration to write a book.
Not that Andrew Foley Jones has gone for the tried and tested chronological tale of what’s happened on and off the pitch.
A director of Mackenzie Jones Solicitors, who represented the previously fan-owned club for a number of years pre-takeover and was on the legal team when the acquisition by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney took place in 2021, Foley Jones has put an entirely different twist on things. It’s Always Sunny in Wrexham tells the crazy tale of a fanatical fan who wakes from a ten-year coma to find the Red Dragons are now under the stewardship of two A-list superstars.
“The concept of a man who woke up in 2030 from a coma without any memory of his life beforehand was based on an idea I was previously writing about, and it became the engine for a flurry of weird and wonderful ideas which I managed to weave into something tangible,” he said.
“This isn’t a textbook about life, or football or even Wrexham AFC. There are plenty of publications out there which tell such stories much better than I ever could. This is my personal version, reflection, anecdote, memory, history, and ultimately a prediction of the future.
“The rest is fiction, and there’s some surreal stuff in there, stuff to do with politics, popular culture, how society might change over the coming years, alien invasions, Joe Wicks becoming Prime Minister, assassinations, world wars, but then it’s set in the future so given the unreal, impossible series of events which has taken place since Ryan and Rob arrived at the Racecourse it might not be too far away from reality.”
Wrexham fans, in particular, will love this book as it weaves some of the past with the present and future. It is a bit weird and wacky, but doing something different is to be applauded. Foley Jones is in talks about turning the novel into a screenplay so there could yet be, fittingly, a Hollywood ending.
Rating out of 10: 7
