Public health minister Tessa Jowell has called for football clubs to follow the example of Woverhampton Wanderers by targeting teenage sex and drug misuse.

The club has launched a scheme backed by£250,000 of Department of Health money to set up leagues in areas of Wolverhampton with high rates of teenage pregnancy.

Young men taking part will receive football coaching, meet Wolves players and attend education sessions on health issues. The club is also reported to be planning to sell condoms in club colours.

Ms Jowell linked the scheme with the government's target of halving England's teenage pregnancy rate by 2010.

Football clubs put up posters on dealing with mental distress as part of world mental health day on Sunday in a move to reduce the number of young men committing suicide.