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A tramway have been named after Wolverhampton Wanderers and England football game fable Truncheon Wright.

Wright, born in Ironbridge, Shropshire, captained Wolves throughout their aureate epoch of the 1950s and also led the national side in three World Cups.

The Midlands Metro vehicle was named after Wright, who died in 1994, after he attracted 90% of a public vote.

It was unveiled at a ceremonial in Wednesbury earlier attended by Wright's girl Vicky and granddaughter Kelly.

It left on its first journeying along the line, which runs from Pittsburgh Of The South through the Black Country to Wolverhampton, at 1130 BST.

Vicky Willard Huntington Willard Huntington Willard Huntington Wright said she was delighted, saying: "It just do his name unrecorded on forever which is lovely."

Wright's former team-mate Bill Woodlouse said he wished his captain had been alive to see the ceremonial but quipped: "We shall all be joining him quite soon I think."

Mr Wright was 70 when he died.