Who is jermaine pennant

A player that featured in FA Cup and Champions League Finals and who could not force his way into a team whose record attendance is below people. A player that has been in prison, and yet once seemed to have all the potential in the world, but could never quite deliver.

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November 10, Czech billionaire buys West Ham stake. November 10, Premier League Top 5 Goals. Pennant now appears settled in the Liverpool First Team. On the 20th of January, , he scored his first, and hitherto only, goal for Liverpool in their home victory over Chelsea in the premiership.

Pennant would later go on to produce an excellent performance against former club Arsenal F. After not being chosen for the England squad to play Israel and Andorra in March, , Pennant expressed the lack of recognition from England manager, Steve McClaren, as 'frustrating'.

Pennant was critically acclaimed for his performance against AC Milan on the 23rd May Arguably one of the best players on the Liverpool team that night, Pennant made dashing runs on the right flank, and supplied a number of good crosses in towards the strikers.

This allowed him to receive the man of the match award for the Champions League Final. Category: Other books. ISBN: Back to top. Advanced Search. AUS NZ. He was also disciplined by Zaragoza for turning up late for training three times over a two-week period.

After a single season in Spain Pennant returned to English football when he agreed to a four-month loan deal with Premier League club Stoke City which led to a permanent contract. Pennant's career was revived after joining Stoke and the Potteries reached the final of FA Cup for the very first time in , but were left disappointed at Wembley as Manchester City won the cup. Pennant had a decent second season, but he still seemed plagued by personal problems that have curtailed his great natural ability.

Jermaine seems to revel in the lifestyle modern footballers enjoy. In fact, Real Zaragoza contacted their former player after city authorities called them about an abandoned Porsche Turbo, with a P33NNT vanity number plate, which had been parked at a local rail station for five months.

Pennant, who owns a number of sport cars, had apparently forgotten all about the Porsche! Maybe his penchant for luxury is understandable if you consider he grew up in one of the worst neighbourhoods in Nottingham. The eldest of four children he brought up his siblings, after his mother left, until he was 15 and had little schooling, lacking basic skills in reading and writing.

His father was sentenced to five years in prison in for selling crack cocaine and heroin. Unfortunately, he joined a struggling team and although he played in fifteen matches in The Championship, Wolves were heading for a second successive relegation.