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Wrexham’s fine list revealed as Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney firm

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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