Not exactly boots
Can't find the words to the chant. 😋
Posted on 05/04/2023 2:35:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Dragons' striker has been hitting the back pages all season but his explicit take on politics saw him hit the news headlines as well
Wrexham AFC talisman Paul Mullin has spoken about the backlash following his custom-made boots being made public earlier in the season. The Dragons star posted a picture of his new footwear emblazoned with an anti-Conservative Party slogan back in October and the news hit the headlines across the UK.
Mullin has been one of manager Phil Parkinson's top performers this season as Wrexham secured their place back in the Football League by clinching the National League title. The Liverpool-born forward has built up a superb rapport with the club's fans due to his performances on the pitch and his status as something of a working-class hero.
In an interview with GQ magazine, Mullin admitted to being surprised at the backlash to the boots - as well as the reaction to him and teammates singing along to an anti-Tory chant with fans in Wrexham McDonalds last week.
In the wake of the boots controversy the club said the boots would not be worn "in any other Wrexham AFC fixture".
Mullin explained how they came to be made: "The lad who [designed] the boots for me asked me if I wanted anything done, so the missus said why don’t you get This Place by Jamie Webster and the Liverpool skyline, I thought it was class," he told GQ.
"And then I just thought on the other one, me and me mates are always messing around saying '**** off you Tory' because in Liverpool, that’s genuinely offensive. But obviously at the same time, Boris Johnson was just doing whatever he wanted while people were missing their granddad’s funeral, and heating bills are rising, and kids are eating out of food banks, so I just put that on me boots.
"Didn’t think anything of it. I took a picture and put it on Instagram, and fell asleep. When I woke up it was on every TV channel, I go to the shop and it’s in every paper, back in the car it’s on the radio.
"The bit that really p***** me off is that three words on my boot offended the country a lot more than kids starving. That’s what I can’t get me head around."
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Mullin was also videoed last week following the Dragons' victory over Boreham Wood, securing promotion to the Football League. The 28-year-old striker was shown joining in with an anti-Conservative party chant in Wrexham McDonalds after celebrating with fans at the city's Rockin' Chair venue.
"It was quite mental actually, we walked in and the staff asked us to come behind the counter to get a photo," he recalls. "So we did and then I turn around and all the fans are singing “**** the Tories” to me and I’ve joined in, and then the next day the headline reads in the paper 'Paul Mullin leads fans in singing **** the Tories with two teammates.'
"I’m like, put the teammates' names in for one, and two, get it right! They started I joined in! Then I enjoyed me Maccies – six nugget meal, class. Medium coke."
(That McDonalds Chant)
McDonald’s is your happy place?
Quite happy to suck off the teat of capitalism isn’t he?
Give back the money that comes from Tories and Super Paul Mullin can say what he wants.
(He ain’t loving it.)
Maybe a Happy Meal with toy would help?
This is the team that Ryan Reynolds bought and turned into a docu-series “Welcome to Wrexham”. Hmmm...
I think the McDonald's in the UK serve beer.
Can't find the words to the chant. 😋
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