{"id":496767,"date":"2026-02-22T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496767\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:37:20","slug":"wrexham-news-max-cleworths-gratitude-after-surpassing-paul-mullin-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496767\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham news: Max Cleworth&#8217;s gratitude after surpassing Paul Mullin record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yvjdd6z67o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who recently signed a new contract through until 2029<\/a>, with the club holding an option of an additional year &#8211; hopes to remain an integral figure for the club as they remain in pursuit of a play-off spot this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham also have an FA Cup fifth round tie with Premier League Chelsea to look forward to at Stok Cae Ras on Saturday, 7 March (17:45 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having already beaten Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Town on home soil in the world&#8217;s oldest national football competition, Cleworth hopes his side can produce another memorable night for the Wrexham faithful against Liam Rosenior&#8217;s Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what you hope for in the FA Cup, is to get a big tie, either at home or away,&#8221; added Cleworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Chelsea is a massive club, one of the biggest clubs in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For us to be able to test ourselves against them, we&#8217;ve been able to do it in pre-season, but it&#8217;s never quite the same in terms of having a real competitive game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;ll be really good to test ourselves and hopefully one that the fans can enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old &#8211; who recently signed a new contract through until 2029, with the club holding an option&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-496767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}