Revealed: Wrexham's Paul Mullin needed an IV drip & came within seconds of being sick on final day of boozy Las Vegas trip

The Liverpudlian has previously detailed his intense dislike of hangovers and his ambivalent attitude to alcohol in general but let his hair down when co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney funded a post-season trip to Sin City for Wrexham's promotion-winning squad.

Payback, though, was brutal after three days of non-stop partying on the Las Vegas strip.

Wrexham's talismanic striker takes up the story in his recently released book My Wrexham Story.

"By 2am, I was done. Finally, after three solid days, I’d hit the wall. I was put in a car, taken to the hotel and put in the lift, and once I’d found my room I fell into bed. I woke up the next day in an absolute state. I hoped a dip in the hotel pool might ease me back into the land of the living. A few splashes later I realised that really wasn’t going to work. Instead, I went off to find an IV drip. I was clearly massively dehydrated and needed sorting out.

"Sadly that didn’t do the job either, and on the bus to that last day’s pool party, at the Tao Beach, a Venetian-style hotel and casino, I really did think I was going to throw up. We were literally about to park outside when a load of tourists started idling across the road. This really wasn’t what I needed. A delay could be catastrophic, both for me and the bus’s upholstery. ‘Get out of the way! Get out of the way!’ I was going to erupt at any moment. Thankfully for all concerned, the road cleared and I was able to leap from the doors and gulp in several big lungfuls of fresh air."

'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas' goes the old saying. Luckily, when it comes to Wrexham's famous trip to Nevada we've been treated to several of the highlights in the pages of Mullin's autobiography. From being stitched up by paparazzi to drunkenly turning up late for dinner with Hollywood stars it seems the squad had a trip to remember. One they will be hoping to repeat if they can win a consecutive promotion this season.

The Wrexham squad are unlikely to come anywhere near a hangover in the foreseeable future with a stacked festive fixture list kicking of with an eagerly-awaited Welsh derby against Newport at the newly-expanded Racecourse Ground on Saturday.

Buy your copy of Paul Mullin's brilliant new autobiography My Wrexham Story on Amazon.