A satirical book trilogy inspired by Wrexham AFC’s extraordinary rise from non-league football to the brink of the Premier League has been completed – with an award-winning Wrexham production company now developing it for the screen.
North Wales lawyer, columnist and lifelong Wrexham supporter Andrew Foley Jones has published the final two instalments of It’s Always Sunny in Wrexham, bringing to a close the surreal comic story of a devoted fan who wakes from a decade-long coma to discover his struggling hometown club has been transformed into a global football phenomenon.
The first book became an Amazon best-seller, earning praise from BBC presenter Dr Chris Van Tulleken, who described it as “anarchic and hilarious”, while The Athletic/New York Times hailed its “weird and wonderful” vision of Wrexham’s future. The trilogy has also been described as “the perfect accompaniment” to Disney’s Welcome to Wrexham documentary.
For Andrew, fiction and reality have always overlapped.
Before becoming an author, he acted free of charge as solicitor for Wrexham AFC during the club’s fan-owned years and later formed part of the legal team that completed the 2021 takeover by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds. The deal was finalised remotely during the pandemic from his home office – while wearing his Wrexham training kit in the early hours of the morning.
“I’ve had the privilege of seeing Wrexham’s story from a perspective very few people have,” said Andrew.
“I was there when the club had little more than the dedication of volunteers keeping it alive, and then found myself helping complete one of the most remarkable takeovers in modern football. That experience sparked the idea for the books, but from there I simply let my imagination run riot.
“It’s incredible that something which started as a love letter to my football club has found readers around the world, and even more exciting that the story is now taking the next step with a screen adaptation.”
The adaptation is being developed by Minera Studios Cymru, the Wrexham-based production company founded by Ruby Snape, Dean Fagan and actor, writer and BAFTA-nominated director Ian Puleston-Davies. The studio has quickly built a reputation for championing Welsh storytelling, with its acclaimed short film Box of Frogs, starring Mathew Horne and Mark Lewis Jones, winning Best Welsh Short Film at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival before screening at the Manchester Film Festival and FOCUS Wales.
Andrew will also travel to the United States during Wrexham AFC’s 2026 pre-season tour to promote the trilogy as the club faces Leeds United, Liverpool and Sunderland, introducing the books to American supporters following the club’s remarkable global rise.
