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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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A rhapsody in brown and beige
Posted on 9:41am Wednesday 10th March 2010
Each Saturday in the football season, as a result of a series of gaffes over the years, I am subjected to a severe sartorial test by Mrs S and eldest daughter Julie before I am allowed to appear in public. Despite this, last weekend I found myself confronted in deepest Cheshire with a chap wearing an identical cashmere sports jacket.
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Why I am banned by Barnet FC
Posted on 9:37am Monday 1st March 2010
IN her heydays as a no-nonsense magistrate -- a trait she has carried into our family life - Mrs S was allocated many football hooligan cases at Tottenham Court and would come home to tell me of the banning orders imposed on fans she had surprised with her knowledge of life on the terraces when they offered a futile defence.
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No wonder Eric Morecambe came South
Posted on 5:20pm Thursday 28th January 2010
My CV records a variety of modest achievements as a newspaper editor, football writer and author and charity worker ... but no mention of the days when I stood accused of a variety of offences ranging from housebreaking to assault.
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Nothing new at QPR
Posted on 10:38am Monday 18th January 2010
When I wrote A History of QPR in 1969 the book had the unusual distinction of being three managers out of date when it was published. Quite a blow for a writer who prides himself on being first with the news.
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A seasonal offering
Posted on 3:26pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009
I awoke at the crack of dawn on Christmas Day 65 years ago to the raucous background noise of the NCO at Meanee Barracks in Colchester shouting "Wakey, wakey".
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Is Signy a saint or sinner?
Posted on 12:29pm Thursday 17th December 2009
Bouncy comedian Jimmy Tarbuck tried to catch me on the hop when we got together at the 'Saints and Sinners' Club Christmas lunch at the InterContinental Hotel. We had been discussing the decline of Liverpool Football Club when we were joined by two other guests. "Do you know Dennis?" one of them asked Jimmy.
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Bombed out as a hero
Posted on 11:34am Tuesday 24th November 2009
MR Chalk, the rather austere headmaster of Finchley County School at the start of the second world war, once observed that my form 2B was the worst that he had encountered in 27 years as a teacher and he particularly singled me out as a no-hoper academic.
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Stars and Stripes on Parade
Posted on 2:33pm Tuesday 17th November 2009
It was always a source of amusement to me that 14894617 former Sergeant Signy was elected a member of the officers' Mess at Inglis Barracks at Mill Hill and passed the port and brandy to vastly superior ranks on regimental occasions.
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Sock it to 'em Barnet
Posted on 4:14pm Wednesday 28th October 2009
Modesty has always precluded me having a personalised car number plate. Believe that and you'll believe anything.
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Recollections of a murder without motive
Posted on 3:10pm Friday 9th October 2009
Sixty years ago this weekend Leopold and Esther Goodman, a well - off middle - aged Jewish couple, were found beaten to death in their home in Edgware.
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