A Shropshire footballing legend who won the FA Cup more than 100 years ago is due to be inducted into a sporting hall of fame this evening.

Jackery Jones, who was brought up in Hadley, Telford, played for Wolverhampton Wanderers between 1901 and 1915, and was a member of the team which beat Newcastle United to win the FA Cup in 1908.

Tonight his name will be included in a new hall of fame at the club’s Molineux stadium, alongside the likes of club legends Stan Cullis, Billy Wright, Ron Flowers and Steve Bull.

Proud members of Jackery’s family have been invited to attend tonight’s ceremony, including his 70-year-old grandson Philip Jon- es, of St Georges, after the Shropshire Star ran an appeal to help track down his living relatives.

“I am very proud and the family is very proud for him to be in such illustrious company as Billy Wright,” said Mr Jones. “It is an honour for the family.

“Jackery would have been tremendously proud to think that after all these years he was thought of that way.”

Mr Jones recalled how his grandfather was a regular at the Cross Keys pub in Hadley – bringing the FA Cup into the pub one night, and forgetting to take it home with him.

“He wore his cup winners’ medal on the chain of his pocket watch all the time,” he said.

After hanging up his boots at the age of 36, Jackery ran the Bucks Head pub in Wellington and worked at GKN Sankey. He died aged 58 of a heart attack.

For the full story see today’s Shropshire Star