I know it doesn’t seem like it because I’ve spent quite a lot of time talking about Wrexham AFC, but I’m not a big football fan. It’s not a sport that particularly grabs me and although I can admire the set pieces that deliver incredible goals, they are so few and far between that it’s not always an entertaining ninety minutes for me.

What I do like about all sports, and therefore football as well, is the stories. When I spent a decade following Formula One, it was the stories rather than the races that kept me hooked - who was doing well, who was doing badly, who wanted it more, what adversity had they overcome, what ups and downs had they lived through in the rollercoaster that is professional sport?

That’s why the Wrexham show appeals to me, and so many other people, because it’s not just about two Hollywood faces coming in, it’s about turning the fortunes of a team and a town around and living through the fight to climb back up the ranks. Hooray!

And talking of the climb, with Wrexham currently in League One and looking to take another step as soon as possible, I figured I wanted to keep an eye on what was going on with the team at a slightly more timely interval than waiting for season four to arrive on Disney+. I did some googling and learned a few facts here and there, and even knew when the 2024/25 season started. I draw the line at paying exhorbitant prices to watch a sport I don’t like, if you even can watch Wrexham matches at this level, but I may have found the next best thing.

Via the Wrexham website and iFollow streaming, I can listen to an audio commentary of the beautiful game as it unfolds, meaning I don’t have to watch anything and can multi-task my way to knowing what’s happening each week: listening to the stories of who’s on and who’s off, the stakes at play against whichever opponent is up next, and ultimately the score that the team come away with. It’s less than a fiver a month for an audio pass to listen to the matches and commentary is led by that great voice of Mark Griffiths that you’ll recognise from the TV show.

I’ll confess that there have been problems over the first few weeks. The audio has had issues - sometimes dipping in and out, sometimes just leaving the ambient sounds of the crowd and the tannoy, it can be frustrating. But when it works, it’s brilliant. I’ve listened to all five matches so far this season and plan to keep doing so for now… but that doesn’t make me a football fan, okay? It’s not like I’ve started referring to the team as ‘we’ when talking about them, although that may just be a matter of time.