When Wrexham's first Hollywood season ended in final-game tears

Wrexham drew 1-1 at Dagenham on the final day of the 2020-21 season to end their National League play-off hopes. Sub Paul Rutherford was sent off just ten minutes into the second-half [Getty Images] The red carpet was out again for Wrexham in Los Angeles. Celebrity co-chairmen Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac were in the spotlight at the launch of the latest series of the documentary that has put the north Wales club on a global stage.

Of course, with Saturday's decisive day to come, the final episodes are yet to have their ending. A win over Middlesbrough will secure a place in the play-offs. Anything else leaves it up to fate.

This is something Paul Rutherford knows all too well; his tears in a Dagenham dressing room are a reminder that not even a Hollywood-owned club gets to write their own scripts. It was five years ago that the wide midfielder was sent off as Wrexham failed to win on the final day of the season and saw rivals winning elsewhere take their play-off spot by a solitary point. "It felt like my world was imploding, that I'd let a lot of good people down," Rutherford says of the images of him alone in the changing room, first angry and then in anguish, after a straight red for a rash challenge.

The heartbreaking emotion was all captured by the cameras. Wrexham drew 1-1 and would remain exiled from the EFL for another year, this time with the world watching. Ryan Reynolds' amusing gift idea ahead of Welcome to Wrexham fifth season Wrexham season a success regardless of play-off bid - Harvey One of the club's longest-serving players at the time, Rutherford knew it was more than just the ambition of getting out of non-league that had been on the line.