Wrexham star McClean involved in car crash on his way to training

Wrexham footballer James McClean was left with cuts and bruises after crashing his Audi on Wednesday morning. 

The Irishman went off road near to Wrexham Golf Club and police were quickly on the scene with eyewitnesses reporting significant damage to the footballer's black Audi.

Fog and ice presented treacherous conditions in North Wales and one source close to the scene described 'lots of tyre marks' on the roundabout heading into Wrexham. 

'Wrexham AFC can confirm that a first-team player has been involved in a car accident this morning on his way to training,' a club statement read. 

'It was a single car accident with no other vehicles involved and the relevant local authorities were quickly present at the scene. 

'The player reported to the Club this morning and will undergo further medical checks as a precaution.' 

McClean's Audi was towed away from the scene with witnesses describing a smashed windscreen and significant damage to the car, which may well have to be written off as a result. 

In a statement, North Wales Police said: 'Shortly before 9am this morning (Wednesday, January 22), we received a report of a single vehicle road traffic collision on the A534 in Wrexham, near to Wrexham Golf Club. 

'Officers and colleagues from the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service attended the incident, which had blocked the road until the vehicle was recovered shortly before 10am. 'No serious injuries were reported from the scene.' 

McClean is due to be in action on Thursday night in a top-of-the-table clash in League One against Birmingham City, who count NFL star Tom Brady among their ownership group. 

Extra tests will now be carried out to see if McClean, who is Wrexham's captain, is good to go for the match. 

It comes in a week where McClean has been in the headlines after he called English town Shrewsbury a 'cesspit full of inbreds'.

McClean has drawn the ire of a large section of supporters for his refusal to wear a poppy around Remembrance Day, while he also refused to link arms with his team-mates during a minute's silence last year.

He has made a number of attempts to try and explain the logic behind his reasoning, most recently saying: 'People say I am being disrespectful, but don't ask why I choose not to wear it.

'If the poppy was simply about World War One and Two victims alone, I'd wear it without a problem. I would wear it every day of the year if that was the thing but it doesn't. It stands for all the conflicts that Britain has been involved in. Because of the history where I come from in Derry, I cannot wear something that represents that.'

As a result, he is often targeted by opposition fans when playing for Wrexham in the English pyramid, and things appeared to boil over on Thursday during his side's defeat by Shrewsbury.

A video of him being targeted with abuse during the game - which is somewhat of a rivalry, sometimes billed the 'cross-border derby' due to the two locations being less than an hour's drive away either side of the border between Wales and England - went viral, and the 35-year-old took to social media to hit back in brutal fashion.

'In fairness if I was born and raised in Shrewsbury I'd probably be this angry as well cause it's an absolute cesspit full of inbreds,' he wrote on his Instagram story.