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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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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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Dinosaur in a PC jam
Posted on 3:31pm Friday 13th February 2009
My first encounter with political correctness came in the Eighties when I was taken to task for a reference to an accident "blackspot" in a report in this paper on a Road Safety Committee meeting.
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Down among the dread men
Posted on 10:04am Wednesday 4th February 2009
The late top-of-the-bill comedian and Fulham FC chairman Tommy Trinder joked about his side's reaction to a continuous flirtation with relegation: "When the players win a corner they want to do a lap of honour".
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I'm still alive and coughing
Posted on 1:31pm Monday 12th January 2009
As the sound of Big Ben ushered in the New Year at our apartment, I raised a less than traditional cup to propose a toast to 2009...in Lemsip.
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The ghosts of Christmas past
Posted on 12:04pm Wednesday 24th December 2008
As a callow and skinny teenage youth I spent one Christmas in the mid-1940s on my own based in a bungalow in Peshawar on the NW frontier of India as one of the last of the British Raj. If my memory serves me correctly, I relieved my boredom by driving through the Khyber Pass across to the Afghanistan border when my 60-year-old bearer finished pandering to my needs and went home to his eight children.
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A call from a dinosaur
Posted on 4:17pm Tuesday 16th December 2008
Not even my nearest and dearest would lay claim to me being a handyman or an expert in technology. I am to DIY and computers what Russell Brand is to good taste.
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Off to the Tower for Signy
Posted on 5:12pm Friday 5th December 2008
In those carefree 17 years when I was in the front line and the trenches guiding the Times group of newspapers, I was dubbed a "controversial editor" by the Sunday Times in a full page spread examining my front page comment that anti-Semitism was a worse problem in NW London than colour.
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