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Jesse Pennington (23 August 1883 – 5 September 1970) was an English football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
 player in the early part of the 20th century. He was nicknamed "Peerless Pennington".

Born in West Bromwich
West Bromwich

West Bromwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands , England. It is north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 road London-to-Birkenhead road....
, Pennington was a left-back for West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.

West Bromwich Albion Football Club , also known as West Brom, The Baggies, Albion, The Albion, The Throstles or WBA, are an English professional Football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands ....
 for 19 years, from March 1903 to May 1922. Although his career was interrupted by World War I
World War I

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, Pennington made 455 league appearances for the club, captaining them to the league title in 1919–1920.






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Jesse Pennington (23 August 1883 – 5 September 1970) was an English football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
 player in the early part of the 20th century. He was nicknamed "Peerless Pennington".

Born in West Bromwich
West Bromwich

West Bromwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands , England. It is north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 road London-to-Birkenhead road....
, Pennington was a left-back for West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.

West Bromwich Albion Football Club , also known as West Brom, The Baggies, Albion, The Albion, The Throstles or WBA, are an English professional Football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands ....
 for 19 years, from March 1903 to May 1922. Although his career was interrupted by World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, Pennington made 455 league appearances for the club, captaining them to the league title in 1919–1920. He had also been a part of the team promoted from the Second Division in 1911 and had received an FA Cup
FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a Single-elimination tournament cup competition in Football in England, run by and named after The Football Association....
 runners-up medal in 1912
1912 FA Cup Final

The 1912 FA Cup Final was the 41st FA Cup FA Cup Final. It was contested by Barnsley F.C. and West Bromwich Albion F.C.. It took two matches to determine a winner....
.

On the international front, Pennington earned 25 caps for England
England national football team

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 between 18 March 1907 and 10 April 1920, captaining the side on one occasion.

After retiring, he worked as a scout for West Bromwich Albion from 1950 to 1960 and was made a life member of the club in 1969, a year before he died in Kidderminster
Kidderminster

Kidderminster is a town in the Wyre Forest District Council district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre....
. Pennington was named as one of West Bromwich Albion's 16 greatest players in a poll organised as part of the club's 125th anniversary celebrations in 2004.

The Bioletti scandal

In 1913, Pennington was approached by Pascoe Bioletti
Pascoe Bioletti

Pascoe Bioletti was an England criminal who attempted to influence the results of English association football games. Pascoe's son, William Alfred Bioletti, was operator of a football betting business in Geneva....
 who offered £5 per player for Albion corruptly
Bribery

Bribery, a form of pecuniary corruption, is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behaviour of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the Offer and acceptance, Gift, Offer and acceptance, or Solicitation of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other pers...
 to endeavour not to win their forthcoming game against Everton F.C.
Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club are a professional English association football club located in the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League and has contested more seasons in the top flight of English football than any other....
 on 29 November. Pascoe's son, William Alfred Bioletti, was operator of a football betting business in Geneva
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
.

Pennington alerted the police
Police

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 and after the game, which ended in a draw, he met Bioletti, ostensbily for the pay-off, at which point the police moved in to arrest Bioletti. Bioletti was sentenced
Sentence (law)

In law, a sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. The sentence generally involves a decree of prison, a Fine and/or other punishments against a defendant conviction of a crime....
 to 5 months' imprisonment in 1914.

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