{"id":47774,"date":"2026-03-02T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wrexham-championship-promotion-contenders-coming-into-their-own-before-chelsea-fa-cup-tie\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:54:06","slug":"wrexham-championship-promotion-contenders-coming-into-their-own-before-chelsea-fa-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wrexham-championship-promotion-contenders-coming-into-their-own-before-chelsea-fa-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham: Championship promotion contenders coming into their own before Chelsea FA Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are far from the finished article, but since losing to Swansea in the last weekend before Christmas, Wrexham have taken more points than anyone else in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you look at the group since that Christmas period you can really feel a change in the group,&#8221; added Dobson. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real togetherness, a confidence and there&#8217;s a belief too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to keep that going, try not to look too far ahead and \u2013 after Chelsea \u2013 get back to those last 11 games and see where it takes us. But we&#8217;re in a good place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parkinson had said the weekend win was important to allow his team to enjoy and embrace the Chelsea challenge, not to mention avoid accusations of losing focus on the league and that bid to meet top-flight sides on a more regular basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rathbone almost laughed at the suggestion the players would be allowed to take their eye off the ball because &#8220;it&#8217;s ingrained in us \u2013 the next one is the only one that matters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s just they are mattering a little more with every step towards the Championship climax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham, though, look to be taking it in their stride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5y4q602qwpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are far from the finished article, but since losing to Swansea in the last weekend before Christmas, Wrexham have taken more points than anyone else in the Championship. &#8220;If you look at the group since that Christmas period you can really feel a change in the group,&#8221; added Dobson. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real togetherness, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[5233,1669,3401,6050,805,1348,3194,2082],"class_list":["post-47774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-championship","tag-chelsea","tag-coming","tag-contenders","tag-cup","tag-promotion","tag-tie","tag-wrexham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47776,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions\/47776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}