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To those who say football is only a game, tell them to go to Wrexham.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s an unbelievable place now,” marvels 76-year-old John Evans in his wheelchair outside the town’s historic Racecourse football stadium. A crowd has gathered around a brass band playing Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon and a carnival atmosphere fills the Mold Road.