Sports journalist Tony Moore has been honoured with the naming of a wheelchair area in his memory at Worcester City Football Club.

The Evening News deputy sports editor died suddenly last year.

The new facilities, near to the players’ tunnel, were unveiled and dedicated before an annual end-of-season fixture between Worcester City Supporters fighting it out for the Tony Moore Memorial Shield.

The team itself, which plays in the Nationwide Conference North, regularly attracts gates between 800 and 1,000 spectators.

Tony, (right), was a regular attender among them and took on assisting roles at the club, becoinge secretary of the Supporters Club.

The £2,500 enclosure was funded by donations made at Tony’s funeral, from the City Supporters’ Club, a Football Foundation grant and a share issue by the club.

Tony started out as a trainee news reporter in 1984 and spent four years on various weekly papers in South Devon, before moving to the Bucks Herald in 1989. In 1992 he left that job to become a sports writer/sub at the Worcester Evening News and was appointed deputy sports editor in 2001.