Ryan Reynolds: Truro City’s Eric Perez out to match Wrexham owner

“We’re both good Canadian kids, and we do kind of look similar,” jokes Eric Perez when asked about the last Canadian owner of a National League side to win promotion.

Perez, whose consortium has been at the helm at Truro City for a year, hopes to emulate Wrexham owner and Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds and take the Cornish side into the English Football League.

It is a lofty ambition, but one which seems a bit more realistic given Truro’s place at the right end of National League South – the Tinners were top of the table until results went against them on Saturday.

There is no ‘Welcome to Truro’ television series in the pipeline, and Perez – the man who set up the Toronto Wolfpack rugby league side – says they will not try to copy directly what Reynolds and his co-owner Rob McElhenney have done at the Racecourse Ground.

“He’s already a global superstar, so they’re doing it their way and we’re going to do it the Cornish way, which is hard work, a little finesse, flair and I think knowing that Cornish is better,” Perez tells BBC Sport.

“I appreciate what they’ve done in Wrexham. I’ve been following football my whole life so I’ve seen other clubs go from lower divisions into the Football League.

“Even with their tremendous resources, their star power, their television show and everything, they still didn’t get promoted into the Football League the first time around.

“That’s why you play the game and that’s what’s so brilliant about football – it can turn around and bite you in the neck when you think it’s coming in for a kiss.”