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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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Silly season? It's cockamamie
Posted on 8:58am Monday 7th July 2008
This time of year is known to those of us who have dabbled in the journalistic trade as the silly season... and the story emanating from the corridors of power at the town hall slots nicely into the cockamamie category.
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Pele gives me a lift
Posted on 8:44am Wednesday 2nd July 2008
My Signy Says column in the Barnet FC programme brought the disparaging remark from one supporter that I was a name dropper. Well, with names to drop like Sir Stanley Matthews, Sir Tom Finney, Sir Bobby Charlton,Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore, George Best,and other superstar friends I have accumulated through football, who wouldn't be?
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What's in a name?
Posted on 8:46am Monday 23rd June 2008
In my brief incursion into your lives as a blogger I have emerged in a veritable variety of guises, as Deadly Den, the lookalike of a former Aston Villa FC chairman; Big Den; Richard Signy's father; Signy Sahib; and 14894617 Sgt Signy, Sir, ex - British Raj, Intelligence Corps, Up the Khyber.
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Where were you when I was shot?
Posted on 9:18am Friday 13th June 2008
The oldest man in Britain celebrated his birthday the other day. He's 112. What a target for optimists like me whose dream is of receiving a message from my contemporary, the Queen, when we both hit the century mark.
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PC and the dinosaur
Posted on 9:09am Monday 9th June 2008
The heading on page 3 made my eyes bulge and sent my mind racing back a couple of decades to when I was the editor - 'Traffic blackspot'.
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Don't judge a book by its author
Posted on 9:16am Monday 2nd June 2008
I always liked the story about the fellow who went to see a Shakespeare production at Stratford and rose to his feet at the final curtain hollering: "Author, author".
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Deadly, but not Doug
Posted on 2:03pm Tuesday 27th May 2008
My wife and eldest daughter Julie enthused at the breakfast table about the delights of The Sun Inn at Dedham, the pretty village on the Essex/Suffolk border, in a where-to-stay feature in Telegraph Travel.
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Richard's dad
Posted on 1:41pm Friday 23rd May 2008
Following Barnet FC takes you to some farflung and exotic places from the old British Empire... Accrington, Cleethorpes and Rotherham to name a few.
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The honeymoon period
Posted on 9:50am Tuesday 20th May 2008
When we got married in 1966 I bought season tickets for my wife and I to "honeymoon" at Wembley Stadium watching England win the World Cup. I reckoned that I had bought a lifetime of marital good will.
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