{"id":21865,"date":"2025-10-04T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21865"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:04:15","slug":"wrexham-held-by-birmingham-in-battle-of-star-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21865","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham held by Birmingham in battle of star owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hollywood-backed Wrexham and NFL legend Tom Brady&#8217;s Birmingham shared the points as a 1-1 draw on Friday did little for either side&#8217;s dreams of promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham, co-owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, have enjoyed a meteoric rise with three consecutive promotions to reach the second tier of English football.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time Super Bowl winner Brady owns a minority stake in Birmingham, who beat Wrexham to win the League One title last season.<\/p>\n<p>However, both teams are finding the step up to the Championship tough.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham sit 11th after just one win in six league games but are still two points better off than Wrexham in 14th.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues bounced back to salvage a point after falling behind to George Dobson&#8217;s header from a Wrexham corner.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham levelled just 25 seconds into the second period when Patrick Roberts latched onto Jay Stansfield&#8217;s pass to fire into the far corner.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood-backed Wrexham and NFL legend Tom Brady&#8217;s Birmingham shared the points as a 1-1 draw on Friday did little for either side&#8217;s dreams of promotion to the Premier League. Wrexham, co-owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, have enjoyed a meteoric rise with three consecutive promotions to reach the second tier of English football. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}