Is it good to mix business and leisure interests?

Many will be aware of the huge increase in Wrexham AFC's international profile since the take-over of the football club by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in 2021.

The club's profile has particularly rocketed since the release of multiple seasons of the Welcome To Wrexham documentary.

Well, like several of the CreativeJigsaw team, I've been a Wrexham FC supporter for a long long time before then (in fact I find I'm possibly quite rare, in that I don't also have a Premier League team like so many do, meaning I get puzzled looks when people ask "Yeah, but who's your team in the Prem?" and I tell them I'm not bothered about any other teams).

So I remember well a player by the name of Neil Roberts (someone who has featured in Welcome To Wrexham), who played for Wrexham in the mid-to-late 1990s, before he left to play in the Championship, and eventually came back to Wrexham in the mid-2000s.

Which means the filming of an interview with Neil this week, in his bar Vault 33 on Wrexham's High Street, had a little extra appeal.

It was a pleasure to meet Neil, who's a genuinely nice bloke, and was very interesting to listen to. Sometimes business can pay in more than monetary terms.

Interviewing Neil was Carl Roberts, of the Welsh Beast YouTube channel.

Written in March 2025 by CreativeJigsaw business owner Nigel Edwards

We used a 3 camera set-up with the third camera mounted on an automatic motorised slider, to provide a motion shot including both interviewer and interviewee. Video lights were a necessity as the room has only mood lighting. Dual wireless microphones captured the audio.