Wrexham footballers Paul Mullin and James McClean share tasteless photo while partying with Hollywood owner Rob McElhenney in Vegas

• Wrexham’s squad are celebrating their League One promotion in Las Vegas
• Mullin and McClean have a historical past of anti-Tory and anti-monarchy remarks

Wrexham stars Paul Mullin and James McClean have made a sick jibe about cancer-stricken King Charles as they celebration with their membership’s owner in Las Vegas.

The footballers, who noticed their crew promoted to League One final month, posed for a photo which Mullin then posted on Instagram with the caption ‘And we hate the f***ing King!’

This was then re-posted by Irish winger McClean, who added the phrases ‘We serve no king or kaiser however Ireland! Sue me’. Both pictures have since been deleted.

The remark was made simply days after the King returned to public duties for the primary time since he began present process remedy for most cancers in February.

It additionally comes simply weeks after Prince William visited the membership’s Racecourse floor – with Charles himself assembly homeowners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in 2022.

Mullin and McClean are at the moment in Las Vegas with McElhenney and their teammates as they rejoice their promotion, though the remarks will convey recent eyes to a duo who’ve a historical past of controversial feedback.

Mullin, 29, who has turn into a public determine and is idolised by younger followers of Disney docu-series ‘Welcome to Wrexham’, beforehand landed himself in scorching water after main followers in chanting ‘f*** the Tories’ in a McDonald’s after the membership’s promotion from non-league. He has additionally had his boots embroidered with the identical phrases.

McClean, 35, has an extended and well-publicised dislike of the monarchy, having turned his again on the English nationwide anthem while enjoying for the Republic of Ireland and refusing to put on a poppy throughout video games performed throughout Remembrance weekend. 

The feedback made on Instagram seem to have been a reference to an anti-monarchy chant which McClean admitted to singing after his facet secured promotion final month.

A video emerged of McClean being serenaded by supporters by a track which options the road ‘he hates the f***ing King’, referencing his Republican stance. McClean himself joined in and seemed to be urging the gang on.

Sharing a screenshot of Mail Sport’s story on social media, McClean commented: ‘Is this appropriate? Absolutely and I additionally sang on the high of my lungs.’

He added: ‘Do I make any apologies for doing so? Absolutely not.’

Wrexham declined to remark when contacted by Mail Sport.

It comes only a few weeks after Prince William visited Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground to fulfill employees and gamers and hear concerning the membership’s staggering rise into the EFL.

The Prince of Wales additionally poured a pint and downed a whisky with McElhenney at The Turf pub subsequent to Wrexham’s floor.

Speaking at Wrexham, William stated: ‘It’s an awesome success story you are constructing right here, the whole lot you’ve got began and achieved it is incredible, so onwards and upwards – it is thrilling.

‘And anybody who’s a real soccer fan needs to see you do nicely.’

King Charles met the Hollywood duo on his personal go to to Wrexham in December 2022, while Prince William met McElhenney, supervisor Phil Parkinson, plus gamers Ben Tozer and Luke Young on St David’s Day final month.

However, that go to didn’t go down nicely with Mullin, who’s Wrexham’s star striker having scored 88 targets in 122 video games for the membership and hails from Merseyside.

Writing in his autobiography, ‘My Wrexham Story’, Mullin complained how the King’s go to to the membership had disrupted preparations forward of an enormous sport.

He then wrote: ‘I’ll be straight: This go to may need been billed as a historic day for Wrexham, nevertheless it wasn’t for me. I’ve no curiosity in royalty.

‘I do not see why anybody ought to have the God-given proper to be born into such wealth, and then for us to pay for them as nicely. It simply comes right down to primary equity.’

Mullin has made his political allegiances clear in the previous, with the Sefton-born striker main an X-rated chant concerning the Conservative Party after Wrexham’s promotion to League Two final 12 months.

A video clip emerged of Mullin in a McDonald’s in Wrexham alongside with a few of his team-mates singing ‘F***’ the Tories’. 

Earlier in the season he shared pictures earlier this season with made-to-order boots that had the identical message stitched onto them.

The photos had been taken at Wrexham’s stadium, The Racecourse Ground, leaving the membership sad, and they acted swiftly by ordering Mullin to delete them and retake them at a plain setting.

Boot designers CustomsZebra had been then requested by the participant to delete their submit of the unique photographs earlier than later reposting with a brand new, plain background.

This was because of the membership’s coverage of taking a ‘impartial place’ on the subject of political issues.

Wrexham additionally insisted Mullin wouldn’t be allowed to put on the boots with the controversial message on them transferring ahead.

Mullin has beforehand opened up about his want to be an excellent guardian to his son, who has autism, revealing in an interview earlier this 12 months he ‘struggled with the considered not being adequate as a dad’.

But in the identical interview with ITV he admitted he did not remorse posting the controversial picture of his anti-Tory soccer boots.

‘I do not remorse them in any respect, no. If folks can kick off on the radio or the TV in the headlines about three phrases on the facet of my boots, possibly they need to use that vitality to focus on the truth that there’s a variety of little one poverty in the nation and a variety of different larger issues than a set of soccer boots,’ he stated. 

He added that the incident made him realise ‘folks do care what I’ve to say’, and this impressed him to make boots concerning the matter of autism.

‘So then I used it for a higher level and one thing that I used to be much more enthusiastic about personally as a result of it is received a private contact to it about my son,’ Mullin stated.

‘I made some soccer boots revolving round autism and attempting to focus on consciousness for that.

‘And, you already know, that’s one thing that I’m actually enthusiastic about and I discuss on a regular basis. Politics is not my sport, I do not actually wish to get into that. It’s simply not for me.’

McClean, who’s out of contract with Wrexham however has been supplied a brand new deal by the membership, has confirmed a extra divisive determine in British soccer, with his anti-royal stance simply certainly one of many issues that has sparked debate.

Whilst enjoying for Wigan Athletic, McClean known as out the English FA for his or her failure to deal with anti-Irish abuse in the sport after an incident at Blackpool.

The FA beforehand investigated followers singing anti-Pope and anti-IRA songs in the direction of McClean on a lot of events.

In September 2023, McClean admitted regrets about posting a controversial image of himself in lockdown ‘jokingly’ residence education his youngsters in a balaclava, which was interpreted as a reference to the IRA.

For the submit, which was subsequently eliminated, McClean was fined two weeks of wages by Stoke City – his membership on the time in March 2020.

McClean got here below hearth for turning his again while the nationwide anthem performed earlier than a pleasant in opposition to West Brom in 2015.

The participant has said this is because of his affinity with Derry, and the function of the British Army in the Troubles and Bloody Sunday.

He has additionally been criticised for refusing to put on a poppy throughout video games performed throughout Remembrance weekend, a private choice he made in 2012, however a stance which noticed him booed for it a decade later.

He refuses to put on the poppy as a result of the image commemorates army personnel who’ve died in battle – and not simply troopers who misplaced their lives in the First and Second World Wars.

The pair and their teammates had been joined in Las Vegas by their membership’s co-owner McElhenney as they held wild promotion celebrations. 

The crew had been handled to a lavish vacation in Sin City, Nevada, for the second season working by Hollywood superstars Ryan Reynolds and McElhenney.

The Welsh outfit sealed their spot in the third tier of English soccer for the primary time in 19 years after ending second – however agonisingly missed out on the title. 

Shortly after the third season of the hit docuseries ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ dropped on streaming platforms, McElhenney and Reynolds once more ensured their victorious gamers had been handled like VIPs throughout their greatest celebration but.

McElhenney himself entered the festivities with the ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ creator posing alongside McClean and George Evans for a photo.

Wasting little time after the top of the common League Two season, Wrexham touched down in Vegas on Thursday and have been profiting from the journey.

Shortly after touchdown, winger Ryan Barnett posted an image at TAO Asian Bistro while McClean documented a lot of the primary day on his Instagram tales. 

They then made a return to the long-lasting Hakkasan nightclub, the scene of final 12 months’s boozy celebration following their historic promotion again to the Football League. A montage of highlights from this season performed on the large display in the venue.

American rapper Lil Jon carried out on the evening and Wrexham’s gamers had been even afforded their very own VIP space after being handled to a heroes’ welcome.