Founded in 1864, just one year after the Football Association first met and the Laws of the Game were first written, Wrexham is the third oldest professional football club in the world.

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Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney Have Polyps Removed After Colonoscopies

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Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who together in November 2020 bought the Welsh soccer club Wrexham AFC, released a video on September 13 documenting colonoscopies they underwent, during which cancer-causing polyps were found and removed. The video begins with the two Americans saying they filmed the procedures after Reynolds made a bet with McElhenney that he couldn’t learn how to speak Welsh. McElhenney then switches from English to Welsh, demonstrating that Reynolds had lost the bet, and explains that Reynolds “was so sure” he would win that he agreed to broadcast his own colonoscopy to the public if he lost. However, cameras also filmed McElhenney as he went for a screening. Reynolds, speaking in English, says both he and McElhenney had recently turned 45 — the age at which the CDC says people should begin regular screenings for polyps, which are abnormal clumps of tissue that grow on the lining of the colon and which can later develop into colon cancer. Reynolds received his colonoscopy at NYU La

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