Tony Court wrote about Exeter City for the Express and Echo at the time of the club's first promotion in 1964.

Having joined the Express and Echo at the age of fifteen in 1950 (around the same time as fellow trainee Bryon Butler who became the BBC's chief football correspondent), Tony undertook National Service in the RAF before becoming his paper's chief football writer in May 1955 following the death of Lionel Wotton who had written under the name of 'Nomad'. With such pseudonyms, originating from Victorian and Edwardian times, now a thing of the past Mr Court not only wrote solely under his own name but was the first of his ilk to be chiefly associated with the Express and Echo as the Football Express was assumed into the larger title's Saturday evening sports edition. He was also to become the Express and Echo's 'most-travelled' football correspondent when the Grecians were switched from the old Division Three (South) to the new nationally-organised Division Four in 1958 which saw City playing Barrow, Carlisle United, Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepools United and Workington during its inaugural season.

In 1964 Tony Court enjoyed the distinction of becoming the first chief Exeter City writer to report on promotion success when the Grecians finished fourth in Division Four. This was followed by relegation in 1966 and Mr Court's decision to leave local journalism to work as a public relations officer for the Automobile Association based in Bristol. Retiring in 1993 he moved to the Greek islands where he launched the Symi Visitor and ran the Aegean News Agency.

He died in 2002 at the age of sixty-seven when visiting his daughter in London.