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On this day 3 March 1958, former football hooligan Carol “Cass” Pennant was born.

 Pennant’s mother emigrated from Jamaica while pregnant and he was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Six weeks old, he was abandoned and was placed into a Dr. Barnardo’s Home. As a black baby, Pennant was fostered by an elderly white family in Slade Green, Kent where he was the only black person, and where he Read more…