Lest We Forget

We all forget things. Someone's birthday, to post a letter, return that library book. But footballer Jermaine Pennant's powers of recall must be seriously open to doubt.

The ex-England star, fresh from a working holiday in Spain, drove his car to Zaragoza railway station, took a train to the airport and flew home. Some time after his return, he rejoined his team-mates at premiership club Stoke City only to find a wad of parking tickets waiting for him in the office.

Yes, the fact that his gleaming Porsche was waiting obediently at the station for him seemed to have totally slipped his mind. Fair enough, an understandable oversight. However, the £28million winger stubbornly refused to admit to being the owner of the vehicle in question, and his memory was jogged only when prompted by the fact that the car bore the personal number plate, P33 NNT.

Eventually he persuaded a friend to retrieve the vehicle from Zaragoza station and take it to the former Arsenal and Liverpool player's Spanish apartment, but not until after railway staff had helped to force the doors in order to retrieve the keys locked inside.

Jermaine has since transferred the plate to his Ferrari, which he drives while in the UK (when he remembers where he has parked it).

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