'Bladdered!' - Paul Mullin recalls embarrassing moment he arrived late - and drunk - to specially-arranged meal by Rob McElhenney & his wife Kaitlin Olson

The striker and team-mates had been living things up on their four-day jaunt to Las Vegas, a reward from co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney for clinching Wrexham's historic promotion to League Two after 15 years in the National League. But as many can testify, it's not easy to keep track of time amid the bright lights and the distractions of Sin City.

Wrexham's talismanic forward, confessed all in his new autobiography, My Wrexham Story.

"Me and Liam [McAlinden] wanted to watch the UFC. We were just about to walk into a hotel with a TV when a security guard stopped us. ‘Private bar,’ he told us, ‘three hundred dollars minimum spend.’ Another reminder that we weren’t in Wrexham now. ‘Watch this,’ I told Liam. I got $40 out and placed it in the bloke’s hand. And so there we were, sat in this high-rollers hang-out.

"The other punters pretty quickly twigged us as being off Welcome to Wrexham and we were having a very nice time, chatting away in our swim shorts, when suddenly we remembered – ‘Shit! We’re meant to be having dinner with Rob and Kaitlin!'"

"We rushed back to the hotel and got changed pronto. But when we walked into the restaurant, nothing could disguise a very obvious fact: we were bladdered and very late. I’ve little memory of that meal – who knows what we ate? – but somehow I still made it to another nightclub, this time where they’d made big cakes in the shape of the National League trophy."

Elsewhere in his book, Mullin revealed he isn't the biggest fan of alcohol and has developed a healthy attitude to drinking and also suggested that the drinking culture that was prominent in British football for many previous decades is on the decline. But if there's ever a time to let your hair down, a four-day promotion party in the Nevada desert is not a bad place to do it.

There certainly won't be much opportunity for a Christmas beverage for Wrexham's squad with a relentless schedule featuring four games in ten days starting with tomorrow's Welsh derby against Newport County.