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Dennis Signy OBE was a former wartime cub reporter on the Hendon and Finchley Times at £4-a-week and became group editor for 17 years in the late Sixties. He was a national press football writer for five decades, is author of several football books and director of Barnet FC. |
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Kevin Keegan cleaned my cabin
Posted on 9:52am Friday 19th June 2009
There are a few disrespectful and anonymous souls who read my column in the Barnet FC match programme and my news reporting on the website who have me tagged as a name-dropping dinosaur who should hand in his computer and retire quietly to a corner of a dark room.
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Don't shoot the messenger, dear reader
Posted on 9:09am Friday 29th May 2009
There's a sad story on Sky News about an Arsenal fan in Africa hanging himself when his team lost 3-1 to Manchester United in the Champions League semi-final. Looking back on the football season that finished this weekend, I guess I was lucky that Mrs S didn't have a shotgun to put me out of my misery when Barnet were humiliatingly trounced 5-1 by Chester City last August.
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Underhill is Signy's second home
Posted on 2:18pm Tuesday 19th May 2009
To avoid any misapprehension in the current uneasy situation let me publicly record that Mrs S has long put it on record that Underhill Stadium is my second (spiritual) home.
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We're British --- send a gunboat
Posted on 11:08am Thursday 30th April 2009
Call me a dear old-fashioned thing if you must but I grew up in an era when Britain had an Empire and enough gunboats to send to quell any trouble in foreign parts.
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It's all downhill for our marriage
Posted on 9:41am Thursday 23rd April 2009
The trouble began when I bought Mrs S a season ticket for the 1966 World Cup finals at Wembley. Her honeymoon treat included Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-trick and Bobby Moore lifting the Jules Rimet trophy. It's been downhill for both of us ever since.
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Sort the weather out, Prime Minister
Posted on 5:36pm Tuesday 14th April 2009
Spring is sprung, The grass is ris, I wonder where the boidies is.
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My drinking companion Brian Clough
Posted on 9:18am Wednesday 25th March 2009
ITV1 screen a documentary on Brian Clough. The controversial film, The Damned United, about his turbulent 44 days in charge of Leeds United, is due for release. And Amazon e-mail me with an offer of 'Provided you don't kiss me; 20 years with Brian Clough" for £6.25.
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A frosty and romantic anniversary
Posted on 11:06am Monday 9th March 2009
The weather forecast for NW and West London this Tuesday is .... decidedly frosty.
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Laying down the law
Posted on 1:41pm Monday 2nd March 2009
Fings aint what they used to be. I read that magistrates at Tameside in Greater Manchester gave a conditional discharge to a chap found in possession of heroin and crack cocaine but fined another £175, and £155 costs, for dropping a cigarette butt. Seems to me a drastic way of trying to stop people smoking!
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Wot — no civic reception?
Posted on 8:39am Monday 23rd February 2009
Euphoria swept over Underhill on Saturday as "little old Barnet" - one win in 21 games - swept to victory in their League 2 David v Goliath home game against promotion hopeful Bradford City by a thumping 4-1 margin.
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