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Arms spread wide, milking the acclaim like a dairy maid, Paul Mullin looked like Freddie Mercur at Live Aid.y

Perched on the shelf of the main stand, with his flock going Radio Ga-Ga on the pitch after a second successive promotion, Mullin re-enacted a scene he had played out 12 months earlier. On the night Wrexham returned to the Football League with a 3-1 win against Boreham Wood, he had stood on the same spot, conducting the fans’ celebrations.

Now thousands of adoring fans were singing his praises again in an action replay of euphoria after a 6-0 drubbing of Forest Green Rovers sealed their place in League One. And for once even his Hollywood paymasters, club owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, agreed the sequel was just as good as the original. The picture is so good it’s on the front cover of Mullin’s book. Deadpool star Reynolds was so impressed by his prolific striker’s tale, My Wrexham Story, that he called it “the best book I’ve ever read. This guy is a hero.”

That’s quite a tribute from a Tinseltown idol whose movies have basically become licences to print dollar bills and whose Welcome to Wrexham documentary changed a whole town’s outlook. Mullin, 30, has loved the sprinkling of Hollywood stardust and that documentary spreading the Wrexham gospel across the Big Pond.

“It’s been a whirlwind – at first it seemed quite dumb for people to focus on things like that and I used to feel embarrassed by it,” he said ahead of the home game with Cambridge at the SToK Cae Ras. “I came here to play football and for people who don’t support Wrexham to recognise you from the documentary felt a bit strange.

“But luckily I did well enough on the pitch for the embarrassment to turn into pride and the whole story has been phenomenal. I don’t think you could have written it any better if you were writing a film screenplay.Wrexham are flying high again, currently in the top two, and Mullin – 105 goals in 138 starts for the club – hasn’t ruled out a third ‘Live Aid’ photo. He said: “We’re all buzzing to be up there, but it’s not even halfway through the season. We’ve done nothing yet and we don’t pay too much attention to the table.