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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. |
Dennis Signy »
I’m making a comeback
Posted on 1:06pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Forget the credit crunch. Forget talk of recession. Forget Barnet FCs dismal first half of the season with only three victories in 22 games (not easy that one, mind you).
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I feel like a million dollars
Posted on 4:40pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
Can you believe what you read in the papers? I never thought I'd say that after a lifetime in the profession. I'm a simple soul, a poor old pensioner who promptly pays his bills, coughs up his taxes with just a touch of middle class moaning, has never had an overdraft and has brought up five children.
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Writing a best-seller for glory
Posted on 5:40pm Friday 31st October 2008
When I wrote A Pictorial History of Soccer in 1968, with a foreword by George Best, the publishers rang a few days before the book came out to tell me that the advanced sales were 25,000 copies.
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Man bites dog - that's news
Posted on 12:27pm Friday 24th October 2008
Man bites dog is news. That's the ultimate test newspaper folk have used over the decades to justify stories appearing in print.
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Dorian Gray going wrong!
Posted on 8:44am Wednesday 15th October 2008
Every day I pass this portrait photo hanging in the hallway of our apartment and take note of this pleasant looking middle aged former editor in a smart dark blue suit and a white shirt -- then have a reality check face to face with the updated me in the mirror in the bathroom.
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Much ado about nothing-nothing
Posted on 10:03am Monday 13th October 2008
A renowned football writer of my acquaintance many years ago drew breath at the final whistle of a dire goal-less match and penned what should have been an immortal intro on his report to his daily paper: "Much ado about nothing-nothing".
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Sunshine and smiles for Barnet
Posted on 8:54am Monday 29th September 2008
A foggy day in London Town early on Saturday ended with sunshine and smiles in Cleethorpes at around 4.50pm with Barnet FC winning their first game of the season against Grimsby Town with a solitary goal.
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Stiff upper lip time
Posted on 3:18pm Monday 22nd September 2008
There's not much to smile about at the moment with Barnet FC having lost six out of seven of their League 2 games this season and already having been eliminated from two Cup competitions.
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My 'distinguished' army service
Posted on 8:56am Monday 15th September 2008
Followers of the Signy Story probably know by heart how I learned to drive on the Khyber Pass and was for some while the sole representative of the British Army on the Afghanistan border — but I have never written or boasted about acquiring the Distinguished Service Medal or the Burma Star.
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What's in a name?
Posted on 2:40pm Friday 5th September 2008
The Barnet FC programme for the sell-out pre-season game against Arsenal announced that the PR consultant to the board was Dennis SLIGNY.
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