YOUNG football fan Reece McDermott has been left distraught by a sneak thief who took a signed England shirt from the wall of his dad's Wolverley pub.

The five-year-old was given the shirt when he was two after dad Marc McDermott met England legend Nobby Stiles and got him to sign the front.

It took pride of place in a frame with other soccer memorabilia on the wall of the Kingsford pub in Kingsford Caravan Park, Sladd Lane, Wolverley, until last week. five-year-old Reece McDermott and his dad Marc at the spot where the stolen shirt used to hang in the Kingsford pub.

"I always used to glance up at it in the morning out of habit," said 37-year-old Mr McDermott.

"Last Thursday, it wasn't there. Reece keeps looking at the space on the wall and asking me where it has gone. I just haven't been able to bring myself to tell him it's been stolen."

Mr McDermott, who used to play for The Briars in the Kidderminster League, had the white shirt in an 18-inch square frame with a photo of himself and Nobby plus pictures of his dad Tom, who lives in Australia, taken with Denis Law and Bobby Charlton.

It hung near an enlarged picture of his other son Damen, 15, with Wolves hero Steve Bull, which was not taken.

Mr McDermott said: "The shirt wasn't worth anything. It's just got sentimental value for the family. I honestly never thought some mindless idiot would take it.

"I don't care where they leave it as long as we get it back," he said. "It's irreplaceable."