Wrexham’s star striker Paul Mullin has spilled the beans on the club’s strict fines system under owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. In his new book, he revealed: “Helping to enforce discipline, we have an embedded system of club fines.
“The list is up on the changing-room door: Late for training, the gym, or a meeting £20. Late on matchdays £100. Late for the bus £100. Late for a team night out £100. Not showing up for a team night out £200. Not eating breakfast by 10.10 a.m. £20. Phone going off £10. Not wearing flip-flops in the shower £5. Wearing flip-flops to go to a game £10.”
“Cleaning boots in the shower £10. Giving away a match shirt £50.”
Mullin also shared that there are fines for not following health and fitness rules.
Smaller fines can also lead to a spin of the roulette wheel or a roll of the dice. The guilty party could end up not having to pay the fine or being forced to “start a boy band”.
Mullin confessed that he has often faced the harsher punishments. He said: “Unlucky, and you can end up down Tesco buying everyone a shower gel.
“Then there’s the dice. Each number represents a forfeit, which can be quite excruciating. You might have to do a silent disco in front of the lads or a lap of the pitch in your underpants not too bad in May, but pretty unpleasant in the sideways sleet of January.
“If you’re really unlucky you’ll have to create a boy band for a day with the team-mates either side of you in the squad numbers. In my case, that’s Ollie Palmer and Liam McAlinden and not many people want to hear that!
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“Alternatively, you’ll have to buy those same players dinner. A bit simpler, but no less painful, is the requirement that you sling £50 in the players’ kitty. Sadly, I’ve done most of these, the price of repeatedly forgetting to wear my flip-flops in the shower.
“Before the Christmas do, we all have to spin the roulette wheel regardless of whether we’ve violated a fines rule. Last year I got stung for £50 without even having done anything ‘What? No way! What’s going on here!'”
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