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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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The new boot room at Barnet
Posted on 2:47pm Monday 24th August 2009
What happened to news sense? I have just returned from a delectable weekend break on the English Riviera to discover sports page headlines about a cricket match south of the Thames rather than li'l ol' Barnet FC's sterling 1-0 victory against Torquay United that elevated the lads to a nosebleed sixth place in the League 2 table.
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Sir Bobby Robson's 'Doris Day'
Posted on 9:04am Monday 3rd August 2009
Sir Bobby Robson, whose death at the age of 76 has produced columns of deserved tributes, was a Fulham player in a team embracing several colourful characters when I met him some 50 years ago.
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Birthday in Billericay
Posted on 2:16pm Thursday 30th July 2009
Birthday in Billericay sounds like a good title for a song. Maybe not possessing the lasting world-wide appeal of Chicago or San Francisco or as romantic as It Happened in Monterey, but it has possibilities.
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Jack Straw is my hero
Posted on 8:58am Monday 20th July 2009
I never thought the day would come when I would publicly say that I could kiss Justice Secretary Jack Straw. In my mind's eye he has always been a downtrodden supporter of Blackburn Rovers rather than an outstanding political decision maker.
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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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