Wrexham and Paul Mullin dominated in the 2023/24 campaign en route to securing yet another promotion.
The Red Dragons are now plying their trade in League One for the first time since the competition was rebranded in the early 2000s.
Their rise up the EFL ladder is in no small part due to Wrexham owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, as well as the goalscoring prowess of Paul Mullin.
When McElhenney and Reynolds bought the club in 2021, one of the first and perhaps the biggest signings they have made so far was Mullin.
The striker had finished the previous season as the top scorer in League Two with Cambridge United, who won promotion to League One in 2020/21.
Yet the Liverpool-born ace opted to drop down from the third tier and join a Wrexham side playing in the National League.
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Rob McElhenney hilarious response to Paul Mullin hat-trick for Wrexham vs Accrington Stanley
It was a sensational transfer, with the Englishman going on to score over 100 goals to help fire the Welsh outfit out of the fifth tier and up to League One in just a few years.
Mullin has had some brilliant Wrexham moments during his four years at the Racecourse Ground, but one of his best has to be the super showing he put on against Acrington Stanley on March 2nd, 2024.
Phil Parkinson’s side won that match 4-0, with the striker having a hand in all four of the goals scored in the League Two meeting.
Mullin opened the scoring by getting on the end of a Ryan Barnett cross after 17 minutes before adding a second and a third before the 36th minute.
He then set up Elliot Lee, whose strike in the 41st minute killed the game off and handed Wrexham three points as they headed towards a second straight promotion.
Mullin’s hat-trick came not long after the number nine had gone seven games without finding the net in League Two, prompting co-owner McElhenney to put out a hilarious response to the incredible feat on X/Twitter:
Paul Mullin can’t get into Wrexham team now
It’s just over 12 months since Mullin’s first-half hat-trick, but it probably feels like over a decade for the striker.
He missed the start of 2024/25 due to an injury but even after returning, has failed to recapture anywhere close to his top form.
Amid a total of just three League One goals in 2024/25, Mullin has been left out by Parkinson in four of the club’s last five league games and did not get off the bench against Mansfield Town on the one occasion he did make the matchday squad.
There’s still plenty of football to be played this season, however, and fans are no doubt keen to see the talisman return to both the side and form in the near future.