{"id":773943,"date":"2026-09-17T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773943\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:06:10","slug":"wrexham-owners-ryan-reynolds-and-rob-mac-aim-spygate-dig-at-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773943\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac aim Spygate dig at Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wrexham<\/a> co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac have taken a light-hearted jab at this weekend’s opponents Southampton<\/a> by referencing the Spygate<\/a> saga in a cheeky social media post.<\/p>\n

The Saints visit their Championship rivals at the Racecourse Ground on Saturday (15:00 BST) and the Hollywood duo did not miss their chance to make light of last season’s play-off drama.<\/p>\n

Southampton<\/a> were kicked out of the play-off final and docked four points after an intern was found observing semi-final opponents Middlesbrough in training, with similar incidents later found to have taken place at Oxford United and Ipswich Town earlier in the campaign.<\/p>\n

Wrexham’s A-list duo appeared in a video on Wrexham’s X account, which started with Reynolds emerging from behind a tree.<\/p>\n

In a skit nominally aimed at promoting shirt sponsor Firefox, Deadpool star Reynolds says: “Today, for no particular reason, we want to talk about the importance of privacy.”<\/p>\n

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Mac adds: “Specifically, how to prevent spies from seeing what you’re doing.”<\/p>\n

While the English Football League has declined to comment on the video, BBC Sport has been told that senior EFL figures feel the video is in poor taste. <\/p>\n

Discussing internet safety, Reynolds jokes about searching for “how to run a football club” before the pair declare privacy is “important to people everywhere”, specifically name-checking Middlesbrough, Oxford and Ipswich.<\/p>\n

Reynolds concludes by saying: “Refreshing, huh? An organisation that actually respects your privacy.” <\/p>\n

The 59-second clip ends with the pair looking at a mobile phone, purportedly showing a Southampton<\/a> pickleball team in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac have taken a light-hearted jab at this weekend’s opponents Southampton by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}