Why Ryan Reynolds takes a piece of Wrexham's turf home whenever he's at a game

Ryan Reynolds has stolen shirts off Wrexham players after games and he's also been seen to pick up bits of turf from the Racecourse Ground, but it's all for a good reason.

Reynolds and co-owner Rob McElhenney have given plenty to Wrexham in the last couple of years since they bought the club for £2 million.

Their desperation to get promoted to League Two this season was because they knew it would cost them another £1 million if they had stayed in the National League.

Instead the club is now worth far more than when they bought it and it's mainly down to the work they've been doing off the pitch.

After securing promotion a few weeks ago, the two Hollywood stars showed how much the club means to them in the emotional celebrations.

Deadwood star Reynolds used the emotion of the day to try and get Ben Foster to agree to stay on next season and then later stole the goalkeeper's shirt from him in the middle of a press conference.

It's not the first time that the Canadian has taken a shirt off a player and he's also been known to pick up bits of turf off the pitch at the end of games.

Speaking to the RobRyanRed - Wrexham AFC podcast, the 46-year-old revealed that it's not for a Wrexham shrine in the house.

"Blake [Lively - his wife] and the girls [their daughters] are the engine for this," the Deadpool actor explained.

"The girls always remind me 'Dad, grab some of the pitch when you walk across it again', but I also recognise that the Racecourse Ground is in certain senses a holy ground.

"So I like to bring a piece of that home every time. I don't think I'm building a man cave at this point, a Wrexham man cave, at this point it's just my house. That stuff is going wherever I am, Wrexham is one of the prides of my life."

Reynolds has an incredible connection with the club. Image: Alamy

Lively has also been in attendance at games for the club but she missed the wild title celebrations and the bus parade around the Welsh city.

It was expected that she missed the latter to attend the famous Met Gala but she missed the event too, as she was actually looking after the pair's newborn child.

There shouldn't be many celebrities, outside of the co-owners, who visit games after Reynolds and McElhenney made a rule to not invite them.

However that has regularly been broken and it seems it's no longer in place, although McElhenney might be reconsidering after his Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-star nearly got arrested at a game.