'F*ck them' - Rob McElhenney reveals who he has least sympathy for during football's toughest moments as Wrexham co-owner hails unwavering support of fans

During a Hot Ones appearance, McElhenney explained that he will typically gravitate towards the side of workers over management, even though he himself is the latter when it comes to both Wrexham and long-running hit show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

McElhenney, who created Always Sunny in 2005, hails from Philadelphia, known as a working class city. It was his upbringing that originally drew him to the idea of buying Wrexham in 2020 and might explain why he lacks sympathy for the ruling class, even though he is now among them.

"Teams are going to go up and down...but you have these organisations that even when they go down, they only go down for a couple years, and then they come back up," McElhenney said.

"Then you have other organisations that are middling for so long, or maybe always at the bottom. I always feel so bad for the fanbase more than anything else, because they deserve something better. It has to come from the top at a certain point.

"I'm always straddling, and I have been since the beginning of Always Sunny, being management and in the workforce. I'm in charge of the budget, but I'm also negotiating against myself when we're putting together lighting packages and things like that.

"No matter what, I will always tilt towards labour or artists. It's hard to feel sorry for the owners, because f*ck them. I feel bad for the fanbase as number one, and then I will always tilt towards the players more than the owners."

A third successive promotion is still on the cards for Wrexham, but they may have to settle for one of Legaue One's play-off berths given that leaders Birmingham City are pulling clear and there is also a gap to Wycombe Wanderers in the second automatic place. It could all change in even just a couple of games, though, for better or worse. Perennial and equally ambitious rivals Stockport County are nipping at their heels too, although they have just lost influential goalkeeper Ben Hinchliffe through injury for most of the rest of the season. Louie Barry also deprted in January.