The popular business lifelong Wrexham supporter Steve Tapp had built up over the previous decade or so was in ruins following a burglary and there seemed no way back.
“I was ready to pack it all in,” says the owner of Wrexham Trainer Revival about the October 28 break-in last year that saw £8,000 ($10,200) worth of stock stolen. “The shop had been ransacked and I went home that night to tell my wife that was it. I’d have to close, sell what was left on eBay and look for another job. I was devastated.”
Unbeknown to Tapp, an American couple who had befriended him on a transatlantic visit to see where the award-winning Welcome to Wrexham documentary was filmed had decided to help.
A GoFundMe page was immediately set up by Kirsten and Ray Webb and donations soon flooded in.
“I’d been blown away by the messages on social media,” he says. “But then this lovely couple I’d only met once before in person set up the GoFundMe. Suddenly, all these people were throwing money in. For that to happen in a working-class town, where there isn’t a lot of money around, was incredible. It was really emotional, watching the total go up.”
Ray Webb helped start the GoFundMe (Ray Webb)
Then came the moment that left Tapp genuinely speechless, as Ryan Reynolds and Rob…
