death_date death_place caps birth_place goals nationalteam image_size position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date image article_title name nationalgoals
5 september 1970 kidderminster , england 455 west bromwich , england 0 england 225 left-back 25 1907 -- 1920 23 august 1883 jesse pennington 1912.jpg jesse pennington
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jesse pennington

jesse pennington -lrb- 23 august 1883 -- 5 september 1970 -rrb- was an english football player in the early part of the 20th century .
he was nicknamed `` peerless pennington '' .
born in west bromwich , pennington was a left-back for west bromwich albion for 19 years , from march 1903 to may 1922 .
although his career was interrupted by world war i , 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 runners-up medal in 1912 .
on the international front , pennington earned 25 caps for england between 18 march 1907 and 10 april 1920 , captaining the side in his last two matches .
at the time of his final cap he was , at 36 years and 231 days , england 's oldest capped outfield player .
this record has since been exceeded by stanley matthews , leslie compton and stuart pearce .
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 .
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 .
until the shop was bought by the co-operative in 1934 , pennington also owned a fishing tackle shop at 33 smethwick high street , where his family had lived since 1911 .
