FIFA 23 Easter egg includes Wrexham’s Ryan Reynolds announcing a Liverpool game

Three months later, FIFA 23 The commentary is amusing and includes Easter eggs from Ryan Reynolds (the celebrity owner of Wrexham AFC) as well as Rob McElhenny.

Wrexham may be the third-oldest professional soccer team in the world, but in real life they compete in English football’s National League, which is five rungs down from the top dogs in the Premier League.

Reynolds’ and McElhenney acquired Wrexham as of February 2021, and that made the club fodder for the 2022 docuseries Wrexham, welcomeThe premiered on FX August 22nd. FIFA 22 (the 2021 game) included Wrexham AFC in its “Rest of World” menagerie as a nod to pop culture’s larger interest in the smaller side. Normally, EA Sports’ flagship soccer franchise does not include any out-of-league (i.e., not fully professional) clubs.

FIFA 23 brought the Dragons back — along with some in-booth commentary from Reynolds and McElhenny, apparently. Over the holidays, fans began noticing that if you match Wrexham with Liverpool (any mode, any location), you get Ryan & Rob in the booth with a suspender-popping, shade-throwing intro. You can take a look at the video:

We can only assume that no one noticed this because either a) none have cared to play Wales’ 1-star (65 attacking, 62 midfield, 62 defense) Wrexham versus Merseyside’s 5-star (84-82-85) Reds. Even if they had, they ignored Stewart Robson’s pre-game comments and got on to the beating.

Someone else over the weekend noticed that if Wrexham play Stockport County — a Wrexham rival promoted to the EFL’s League Two — R&R show up with this table-setter:

We reached out to EA Sports to ask if fans could expect additional commentary Easter eggs from Rob McElhenny and Ryan Reynolds, but we didn’t hear back this afternoon. Kids, keep plugging. It is doubtful they were able to get this pair of talkatives in the booth with just two lines.

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