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Cass Pennant

English writer and former football hooligan

Carol "Cass" Pennant (born 3 March ), is an English writer and former football hooligan.[1][2][3]

Background

Pennant's mother emigrated from Jamaica while pregnant and he was born in Doncaster, 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, Greater London where he was the only black person, and where he states he was "bullied from day one" year after year, and beaten persistently - "Not just from rivals or other kids, the whole town.

Imagine as a kid, you're picked out; people in vehicles shouting out at you, total strangers".[3]

Pennant had been christened Carol, a common masculine name in parts of the West Indies but unusual as a masculine name in the UK; this was also a source of bullying for him, particularly at school.

After seeing legendary boxer Muhammad Ali (then known by his birth name of Cassius Clay) beat Henry Cooper, he adopted the name Cass.[3]

Pennant was a member and leader of the Inter City Firm (ICF) associated with the English football club West Ham United in the s.[2] Cass Pennant's story is remarkable given the level of racism that was prevalent during the s, s and early 90s in Britain.

Cass managed to rise to the top and become one of the generals of the ICF despite being black.

Ks kids Carol "Cass" Pennant born 3 March , is an English writer and former football hooligan. Pennant's mother emigrated from Jamaica while pregnant and he was born in Doncaster , 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 , Greater London where he was the only black person, and where he states he was "bullied from day one" year after year, and beaten persistently - "Not just from rivals or other kids, the whole town.

He was eventually sentenced to four years in prison in , and was the first person to receive that long a sentence for football hooliganism.[4] After a second time in prison he started running a night club security firm in London.[5] While working at one such nightclub in South London he was shot three times.[5]

In , Pennant appeared on the Channel 4 documentary, Football's Fight Club about football hooliganism in the s.[6] He has been a consultant on television programmes such as The Real Football Factories and The Real Football Factories International.[3] He also worked as a consultant and played a cameo role as a riot police officer in the drama film about football hooliganism, Green Street.[1][7]

In , he had a documentary made about him, Cass Pennant - Enough Said (Gangster Videos) directed by Liam Galvin, and in a film was made based on Pennant's life story, Cass, starring Nonso Anozie as Pennant, and directed by Jon S.

Baird.[2] In , he played a leading role in the movie Killer Bitch.[8] He also wrote the foreword for Manchester United football hooligan Colin Blaney's book Undesirables and contributed a short piece about Manchester United's rivalry with West Ham[9][10]

Bibliography

  • Author
    • Cass ()
    • Congratulations, You Have Just Met the ICF ()
    • Top Boys: True Stories of Football's Hardest Men ()
  • Co-author
    • Rolling with the Crew: The True Story of Pompey's Legendary Football Fans ()
    • Terrace Legends ()
    • Good Afternoon, Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner ()
    • 30 Years of Hurt: A History of England's Hooligan Army ()
    • Want Some Aggro? ()
    • The Story of Barrington 'Zulu' Patterson, One of Britain's Deadliest Men ()[11]

References

  1. ^ ab"Official website".

    Archived from the original on 24 February Retrieved 20 June

  2. ^ abcSolomons, Jason (27 April ). "Trailer Trash - Fila dealer". The Observer. Retrieved 20 June
  3. ^ abcdLeitch, Luke (16 June ).

    Cass pennant s kids watches for sale When did you start going football? Phil: My dad was a big Liverpool fan and began taking me to Anfield when I was 6 which was about Liverpool in those days was a very poor city and still is but Anfield was a spectacular place for a young kid. The kop was at its height and the sight of them singing 'You'll never walk alone' from the Anfield Road end is still ingrained in my mind. I remember the smells as much as the sounds, the vinegar from the chip shops, the horse shit from the police horses, the onions from the hotdog sellers, the beer from the pubs and ofcourse the piss from 20, men crammed into the kop.

    "Enough with the tough from a boy named Carol". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 15 June Retrieved 20 June

  4. ^Live, Birmingham (31 July ).

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    Post a Comment. Monday, 5 December Interview with Cass Pennant. So I am here primarily today to talk to you about the CASUALS documentary that you have coming out, could you give a summary of the documentary, and why you felt it needed to be made? Britain has given the world every form of youth culture. Most of these cultures start in London- Teddy Boys, Skinheads, Punks- then spread nationally and then internationally.

    "Midland Premiere for Cass held in Broad Street". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 3 October

  5. ^ abBuchan, Jamie (4 August ). "Article - North-east director scores hit with first film".

    Cass pennant s kids watches All All. Sign In. Edit Cass Directed by Jon S. Baird Writing Credits in alphabetical order Jon S.

    Press and Journal. Retrieved 1 May

  6. ^Kilner, Martin (29 April ). "Welcome to the Top Ten Rumbles". The Guardian.

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  11. ^Bellos, Alex (1 March ). "Hollywood wakes up to the call of the world's biggest game". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June
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  13. ^Blaney, Colin (). Undesirables. John Blake.

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  17. ^Edmonds, Lizzie (23 July ). "Cass Pennant: Notorious former football hooligan now fights against violence". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 July
  18. ^Barrington Patterson; Cass Pennant (4 March ).

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External links

Cass - The Cass Pennant movie review at The Hollywood News