Arbroath were briefly on the table before Wrexham were identified as the team to throw their Hollywood weight behind.
Wrexham's Hollywood owners briefly considered taking on Celtic and Rangers with ARBROATH – but the massive divide between Glasgow's big two and the rest of Scottish football put them off.
The idea of buying a UK football club was the brainchild of McElhenney, who rose to fame as creator and star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He then pitched it to Deadpool megastar Reynolds who jumped on board to make it happen and both have taken front-and-centre roles as co-chairmen in North Wales. But it might have been different tale had one of McElhenney's initial ideas, which included an SPFL takeover, come to pass.
Ker told BBC Scotland's Sacked in the Morning podcast: "So right at the jump, Rob said, well, what about a club in Ireland? Because his family are from Ireland, or from Northern Ireland, or from Scotland. And I'm afraid to say that I was a bit of a party pooper on that because my feeling was the ceiling in the English game is that much further away.
"When I lived in Edinburgh, I used to go to Hearts games. There was that period where all the Lithuanian players came over and it was like it would be a genuine challenger to that big two in Glasgow.
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