Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds celebrated their club's dramatic win over Notts County in style – by sticking Paul Mullin's shirt down his trousers.
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Famous win gave Dragons crucial promotion lead
Jubilant Reynolds hid memento in trousers
Both teams ended up getting promoted Getty ImagesWHAT HAPPENED?
The showdown at The Racecourse Ground in April saw Wrexham come from behind with three second-half goals to steal a crucial advantage in the promotion race late in the season. The combination of ecstasy and relief after the victory proved to be a heady combination for Reynolds and fans as Mullin reveals.
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Mullin detailed the scenes after the final whistle in his autobiography "Afterwards, Ryan asked for my shirt. I gave it to him and he immediately stuck it down his trousers, possibly for safekeeping, possibly to ensure I’d never want it back.
"The club hasn’t always been keen on us giving shirts away – originally they were concerned about the cost and set a limit on how many we could hand over – but it’s not easy to refuse the owner of the club.
"I sometimes wonder what happened to that shirt. Maybe some old film poster was shoved out of the way to make room on his living-room wall. Who wants Deadpool when you could have Paul Mullin’s Wrexham shirt?
"Ryan does have a bit of form when it comes to shirt pinching. A couple of weeks later he’d burst into Fozzie’s post-match press conference to demand his shirt. ‘He’s so hungry for the shirt!’ Fozzie joked."
Getty ImagesWHAT MULLIN SAID ABOUT THE SCENES AFTER THE GAME
"It was carnage afterwards," Mullin continued. "I came out of the ground and there was a sea of people waiting. It took me twenty minutes just to get to my car. I loved that.
"The club was being successful and people just wanted to say well done and be a part of it. The only thing that bothered me a bit was that people were celebrating as if we’d won the league. To be fair to them, the game had definitely been billed as a winner-takes-all encounter – whoever secures those three points will go up. I never felt like that. The title was miles away. While we were now three points ahead of Notts County with a game in hand, anything could happen."
GettyTHE BIGGER PICTURE
Wrexham's promotion battle with Notts County was a duel for the ages, with both sides breaking the 100-point barrier in pursuit of the solitary automatic promotion spot. There was plenty of mutual respect too, with Reynolds slamming the league's format and declaring he wanted to see Notts promoted too.
Reynolds got his wish, when the Magpies clinched promotion after a heart-stopping penalty shoot-out win at Wembley.
