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New director Kaleen Allyn and father Eric Allyn – whose entrepreneurial family sold the Welch Allyn medical diagnostic business for more than $2bn in 2015 – were among those celebrating at the Stok Cae Ras on Saturday and are excited for the club's future having become minority shareholders with a stake thought to be between 10-15%.

Wrexham's attendances will be the lowest in the Championship next season, with the Stok Cae Ras' capacity reduced to below 10,000 as work begins on a new Kop.

Rob McElhenney had been asked to sum up events at the Stok Cae Ras on Saturday as the north Wales club celebrated reaching the second tier of English football for only the second time in their history.

And yet, the Stok Cae Ras seemed set for this from the moment Reynolds and co-chairman Rob McElhenney entered the ground almost five hours before their decider with a London side still harbouring their own promotion ambitions.

"I'm not sure I can believe it," said Wrexham hero Thomas, who admits his time working with former club Manchester United sees people stop him and ask questions, not of events at Old Trafford but at the Cae Ras.