Here’s Deano to light up your Thursday. His vision of Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham is quite remarkable…
Recap of Ryan’s rules and milestones:
- Only 1 player, per nationality in the squad
- All 7 continents & USA represented in starting XI (Chile represents Antarctica)
- £20m bank balance at end of season 1 – complete
- £30m bank balance at end of season 2 – complete
- Win Premier League within 4 seasons – complete
- Good Champions League Run
- Bonus – Win FA Cup
- Bonus – Win League Cup
We’ve made slight tactical switch moving our Influential Saudi into the holding position and Andre Cruz as the attacking left-central midfielder. It starts to pay dividends. Attacking centre backs are the way forward if you ask me.
We didn’t get off to the best of starts in our Champions League campaign. Realistically we need to win our remaining games if we are to qualify from the group.
The 2nd round of group fixtures sees us travel to Hajduk-who on this management simulation game just so happen to be-Shit.

And Shit they are. 1-4. Easy street.
Amazingly, Celtic beat Inter in the other group game.
The Bhoys were roared on to a famous win at Celtic Park. It’s all too much for Rod Stewart.
This has blown the group wide open.
Next up are Celtic. We score all 3 goals and Rod is crying again for all the wrong reasons. Rangers fans celebrated Brian Laudrup’s winner.
Unfortunately, no favour from Haddock Split vs Inter. So, it’s going down to the last game.
We travel to the San Siro. It’s a daunting task. Ivan Zamorano is suspended & back up Ivo Basay is cup tied. So the Antarctican slot is filled by third-choice, transfer-listed, FR Rodrigo Ruiz. Ruiz hasn’t featured for Wrexham for over a year.
And wouldn’t you just know it, he scores the only goal in a game of few chances. Hero. Antarctica rejoices.
We’re into the Quarter Finals!
Where we will play…
Ajax of Amsterdam! How ironic. Anyone who has been following Nick Rowe’s Champions League Manager may know I’ve got a little bit of history with Ajax. Well, their 1995 team anyway.
I know the way they play and they don’t scare me. Bunch of Fancy-Dans.
But just to be sure – let’s see engage in some fuckery!
Remember all that money we made in the early seasons? Well what better time to use it. Player search: ‘Ajax’ – Interested Foreign Based – Excluding Unavailable; reveals these three:
Apart from Jari Litmanen, this is pretty much Ajax’s entire forward line. I’ve got no Portugeezers, Czechs or Belgians in my squad so it’s fair game.
Bish.
Bash.
Bosh.
I even move on Oliveira shortly after in a part exchange. It’s not like I need him for my own team.
Shithousery; Ryan loves it.
Ajax don’t have the services of Seedorf either – we do. And Clarence knows his way around the Amsterdam Arena.
Unfortunately, we’re dumped out the FA Cup by Derby County by the same score line in our very next match. If there’s one regret about my time at Wrexham it’s been our domestic cup form. I haven’t even made a semi-final. Our only trips to Wembley have been the Charity Shield and the time we beat Luton Town in the Windscreen Shield final all those years ago.
But we have one foot in the semi of the Champions League. And Wrexonian fans grow a physical semi as we pound Amsterdam in the second leg at the Racecourse Ground.
Poor Ajax. If only they had more firepower.
The semi-final draw is made, and we must lock horns with Inter once again.
I try to sabotage their team. Give them the Ajax treatment. But they aint having any of it. No players interested in Wrexham that would weaken them, so we’ll have to rely on good old-fashioned Direct football. Direct football, an Antarctican and a marauding attacking centre-back.
Like Clarence Seedorf, Zamorano also knows his way around his former club. Ronaldo’s 90th min consolation was just that. We smashed them in the stats.
Zamorano and Andre are the scorers again in the second leg as we Cruz into the final.
Where we will play…
Barcelona!!
You’ll have to tune in next week for the Final and the concluding episode of Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham. The series finale will hopefully end better than Game of Thrones. That’s not hard obviously. What a pile of shit that was.
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