Traitors in Shrewsbury dressing room, but who’s a secret wolf?
Aside from the odd fly-on-the-wall sports documentary, dressing rooms are generally closed-off spaces.
But in a recent exclusive interview with the Shropshire Star, Town defender George Nurse revealed that he and his Town team-mates play a game called Wolf.
This follows a very similar pattern to the hit BBC TV show The Traitors hosted by Claudia Winkleman.
After training and during overnight stays the Town players play Wolf, where they all get together, and a small number of them secretly become wolves while the rest are villagers – with the premise of the game to guess who the wolves are.
Nurse describes how they play and says: “Footballers are weird... you think we are this professional person, but we are just a bunch of kids really.”
He also goes on to say it is a common thing in football – to play games like this – having also played Wolf at his previous club Bristol City.
He said: “We play a game at the training ground called Wolf. It is basically a similar concept to The Traitors there are sort of three wolves, and they end up killing people, and you have got to guess who it is. So we all sit around in the changing room, and we all get dealt a card, there are like villagers, who are like the faithful in The Traitors, and then there are the wolves who are like the traitors in the programme.
“There are a few other different roles, so someone will narrate it and will stand up and talk through the game – Tom Bayliss is good at it.
“People get murdered in the night, everyone goes to sleep and closes their eyes, and the narrator will say can my wolves wake up so whoever has been given the wolf card opens their eyes and they will pick someone to murder – normally just pointing.
“Then the camp wakes up, and then everyone is trying to guess and it is a massive argument.
“The lads normally play it after training before they go home, so I don’t really play because I am in the gym doing rehab.
“We play it during overnight stays, when we have had dinner and stuff so it kills an hour.
“I came in late to one the other day and (Dan) Udoh was a wolf in one, and he won, which is very controversial and when it is him everyone goes mental.
“He acts all innocent, so maybe that is why he is good at it.
“Footballers are weird. People just see you turn up and play your matches and they think you are this professional person, but we are just a bunch of kids basically.
“I think it is a common thing in football, I played Wolf at Bristol – so it does go around.”
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