Ben Foster has underlined the difficulties of playing for Wrexham, with Arsenal’s Arthur Okonkwo performing well for the lower-league side.

Speaking in a video on The Fellas YouTube channel, former Wrexham goalkeeper Ben Foster outlined why he found it so difficult to play for the club, despite helping them to promotion in 2022/23.

“It’s so physical,” Foster said of his experience with Wrexham. “Every team, if they get a free-kick from the halfway line, will put it on top of the goalie.

“Every team has a long throw, and I mean a stinking long throw, think Rory Delap, a good missile.

“Every corner is an in-swinger on top of you and you’ve got 6’5″, 6’6″ blokes standing there going ‘all the best’.”

Arsenal currently have young goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo on loan with Wrexham, though under slightly different circumstances, as the club are now playing in League Two rather than the National League.

All the same, much of what Foster said of the National League would also undoubtedly apply to League Two, so Okonkwo doesn’t have an easy job with Wrexham this season.

The goalkeeper will be well aware of that, having already had to undergo jaw surgery after one particularly bad clash with an opponent.

Yet Okonkwo has performed very well for Wrexham so far overall, and he kept another clean sheet for the side against AFC Wimbledon on Saturday.

That match brought the goalkeeper to 10 clean sheets in 19 games for his loan side, an excellent record that has helped Wrexham up to second in the League Two table.

Okonkwo looks likely to be involved in the promotion race until the very end of the campaign, and perhaps Wrexham won’t be playing lower league football for long.