SOCIAL media reports that a crew of more than 100 Wrexham fans “hammered” a right wing group in Manchester have helped net the club nearly £5,000 in a day.
Right wing groups gathered in London and some other English cities on Saturday claiming they were defending statues and war memorials due to a Black Lives Matter march in London which was brought forward, by organisers, to Friday to avoid potential disturbances.
In London, groups including the Football Lads Alliance, were involved and there was violent disorder.
But videos posted to Twitter showed a group of men, describing those they were with as “football lads”, complaining some of them had been “hammered” by “over a hundred Wrexham lads…they won that” in an apparent fight in Manchester.
One voice says on the video: “Wrexham, they’ve got links with Celtic that’s why”. The main narrator, in another video, says: “Got a phone call saying it’s all kicking off, some people turned up, masked up, battering everyone, turns out it’s Wrexham fans for some reason.
“What the fuck is that about? Apparently they’ve got links with the IRA and obviously we’re at a war memorial so it could be summat to do with that? But who’d have fucking thought it, eh? Out of all the people that’d come and attack us it would be another firm of football lot, mental. We seen a load of lads running up, football lads, young youth running up bleeding and said it’s going off.”
In another video the narrator whinged: “Wrexham youth turned up, start battering people absolute scum, treacherous scum. I don’t know if it’s football rivalry or because we’re at a cenotaph and they’ve got links with the IRA.”
Videos had been posted by left wing and Wrexham supporting Twitter accounts but it’s not clear where they originated from.
While there appears to be little official confirmation of any disturbance, either near Manchester’s Piccadilly train station, or elsewhere in the city, there was a gathering of around 150 “including ex-servicemen” in St Peter’s Square on Saturday afternoon. According to the Manchester Evening News they had attended at the cenotaph to “protect it from desecration”. The newspaper reported the event passed off peacefully.
But the video of the men, with northern English accents, was shared across Twitter and resulted in Wrexham trending on Saturday night.
Yesterday Wrexham’s official website confirmed its ongoing fundraising appeal, to help Wales’ oldest professional football club through the coronavirus crisis, had hit the £15,000 mark just a day after the appeal, that opened at the end of May, had passed £10,0000.
The club website stated: “Following an influx of donations from Wrexham supporters and football fans across the UK and overseas, we’re delighted to announce that we have now reached the £15,000 milestone, less than 24 hours after surpassing £10,000.”
Among those commenting was former Tottenham and Nottingham Forest player, and Ireland International, Andy Reid who, in a since deleted tweet, wrote that Wrexham had “done well” on Saturday, though like all clubs in the National League their season had finished weeks ago.
The claims about Wrexham’s links with Celtic and the IRA also hadn’t gone unnoticed on Twitter.
Irish folk group Lankum also promised free entry to their shows for Wrexham fans.
The Dublin band weren’t the only musical group impressed with the north east club.
With thousands of tweets sent about Wrexham there was plenty of admiration for the club and its fans, prompting appeals to support the 156-year-old club financially.
Wrexham has said 5% of the appeal total will be donated to Nightingale House Hospice and the Awyr Las NHS chairty.
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