HUMPHREY KERR is living the dream after instigating Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds' takeover of Wrexham Football Club.

British comedian and writer Kerr revealed how McElhenney made fun of him for watching football matches on his laptop during breaks when he was working on the actor's hit show Mythic Quest.

McElhenney began to take more of an interest in 'soccer' after being recommended documentaries to watch by Kerr, and the 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' star decided he wanted to buy a football club.

The rest is history with McElhenney and Reynolds becoming new owners at The Racecourse, and Kerr, their 'man on the ground' at The Racecourse has been appointed executive director.

Helping run a football club is a dream come true to Kerr.

"In my capacity as a writer on his show, I would often watch football on my lunch-break and Rob would give me stick about it: 'this is a girls sport, all they do is pass sideways and do nothing'," said Kerr.

"I was a Liverpool fan - now I am Wrexham through and through - and I watched all the Champions League games when Liverpool got to the final in 2019.

"He could see how excited I was, and how much it meant to me, and he started to begrudging go: 'well, there must be something to this.'

"When lockdown started, I sent him a bunch of football documentaries because I realised the way to get him into it was through the narrative; he is a storyteller by trade.

"He loves the story and the things that get us as football fans excited - the redemption, the relegation six-pointer, the 97th minute promotion grabbing goal - those things get him very excited.

"My connection to this came about through being the football whisperer. I was the person who got him excited and it began to take shape.

"It became apparent that I was going to become involved; football has always been my passion and it has led to this.

"To be involved in a football club at all is a dream come true but to be involved with one where what the owners want and what the fans want is so closely aligned is quite strange."

McElhenney approached Reynolds as the venture gathered pace and the duo formed the 'dream team' which ended with them becoming joint owners of Wrexham.

"Rob got this started, there is no two ways about that," said Kerr, who was also charged with selecting a club for the actors to buy.

"Knowing that Ryan is a marketing genius, I think Rob went to Ryan and was like: 'would you be interested in sponsoring the team with one of your companies?'

"They were fans of each others work and met once or twice but had never really been bosom buddies, but Ryan came back and said: 'yes, let's do this. This sounds incredibly fun and exciting, I would like to be a joint owner'.

"I think if it had been a case of we want to buy a football team, try to increase the valuable of the team and sell it, I don't think that would have appealed to him as much.

"I think Rob sold him on the notion of everything around it which is the stuff they seem to be more excited about."