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| Jermaine Pennant |
Arsenal
Born: 1/15/83
Hometown: Nottingham |
| At 16 years and 319 days old Pennant became the youngest player to ever don an Arsenal shirt when he made a second-half substitutes appearance against Middlesbrough in the fourth round of the Worthington Cup. The youngster, tipped for greatness, beat Gerry Ward's previous record by two days.Pennant joined the Gunners in a blaze of publicity, with his previous club Notts County claiming that the Premiership club poached their prized asset when still a schoolboy.A Football League tribunal ordered Arsenal to pay £2million to County in compensation for the diminutive winger.Appearances for England Youth sides have set Pennant apart as one of the country's most exciting prospects. |
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