Ryan Reynolds publicly called out as Wrexham flight details emerge

Wrexham reportedly chartered a private jet for a 37-minute flight last month, with air travel a regular occurrence under their Hollywood owners

Wrexham owner Ryan Reynolds has been criticised after it emerged the team used a private jet to fly to and from a league match against Wycombe Wanderers.

The BBC report the plane, which was chartered from Jersey, travelled a total of 1,178 miles to take the team on a 37-minute flight instead of a three-hour coach journey for the match on March 15. Concerns have been raised over the environmental impact of the decision.

The choice to fly came in the same month Reynolds pledged to the United Nations to "engage with and advocate" for sustainable goals to make the sport more environmentally friendly.

Wrexham's squad were actually only on the plane for around 250 miles of the total 1,200-mile journey the aircraft undertook, the report says. It flew from Jersey to Flintshire to pick the team up the day before the game, before flying to Oxford, returning to Jersey and then carrying out the return journey the next day.

Wrexham reportedly took 16 domestic flights in their promotion season from the National League two years ago. Striker Paul Mullin previously revealed flights to away matches more than a two-hour coach journey away had become a regular thing. Of Wrexham's 23 League One opponents, only eight are within a two-hour drive.

Criticism of the decision to fly to the match was posted online by campaign group Fossil Free Football, who argued the club would have spent more than an hour on the road in trips to and from airports.

Fossil Free Football said: "No-one want this problem to get worse at any level, from grassroots where 120,000 matches a season are already cancelled, to professional football where we saw things like Wimbledon's pitch collapsing after a heavy storm last year."

The video also labelled Reynolds hypocritical for visiting the UN in New York to join the Football for the Goals event - a UN initiative aimed at making the sport more sustainable.