Mick Dennis

Mick Dennis (born 10 May 1952 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England) is a retired sports writer, broadcaster, editor and columnist. In a career of more than 40 years in newspapers^[1] he wrote (mostly about football) for The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror,^[2] The Daily Telegraph, the London Evening Standard (where he held a number of executive positions, including sports editor)^[3] and The Daily Express,^[4] (where he was football correspondent from December 2003 until March 2015, when he retired from day-to-day journalism). During the first 15 years of the 2000s he appeared regularly on Sky News, had a weekly spot on Sky Sports News, was a guest presenter on Talksport radio and LBC radio and frequently contributed to programmes on BBC Radio 5 Live. He was a magistrate from 2005 until 2022, was an active football referee for more than 25 years and then mentored young referees for a decade.^[5] He volunteered in the communications department of the international aid charity Plan UK^[6], was a trustee of Victim Support Hertfordshire^[7] and was an independent member of various funding panels for the Football Foundation.^[8] He was a trustee of Norwich City's Community Sports Foundation for nine years,^[9] and was a trustee of the Dacorum Sports Trust and its chair for five years. He was a founder member of Kick it Out's grassroots advisory group.^[10] He collaborated with referee Graham Poll on the latter's best-selling autobiography, "Seeing Red", and "Geoff Hurst, The Hand of God and the Biggest Rows in Football." He wrote a football book, The Team, which is part of the Quick Reads Initiative^[11] and contributed to four anthologies of sports writing. After retiring from newspaper and broadcast journalism in 2015 he edited three volumes of Norwich City essays called Tales From The city.^[12] He was one of the original contributors to the Norwich City blogsite My Football Writer and continues to write occasional columns for that site.^[13] He lives in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and has been married for almost 50 years. He and his wife, Sarah, a former journalist and charity worker, have two married sons and six grandchildren.