Mick Dennis

‘Never Mind The Danger’ we sing. Seldom has this line been more pertinent July 10, 2020 - The most wondrous aspect of Norwich City’s romp to the Football League title last season was that it was a triumph for doing things the right way. Being smart beat money and muscle. And so, for me, amid all the disappointments of yet another dismal demotion, one detail stands out… ...
Will it be the same? No. Does it have to happen? Yes. And imagine an FA Cup win… May 30, 2020 - When Norwich City’s second goal went in at Leeds in February last year — the Pukki tap-in which caused a delayed reaction among our fans tucked in a corner at the other end of the pitch — I turned to seek out the face of a friend in the row… ...
A league motivated by greed, no doubt, but not the sole fault of one Mr Murdoch May 20, 2020 - Tin hat time for me: here is my defence of Rupert Murdoch. No, that’s not really what this is. But I’d like to respond to and amplify Gary Gowers’ piece about the start of the Premier League — because I had a ringside seat at the fight that transformed the… ...
Where does football go next? There’s no understating the magnitude of this crisis May 4, 2020 - It's only a game. Football paid off my mortgage. Football helped me regain my mental health more than once. Football has set my mood and provided the rhythm of my week since I was eight – which is 60 years ago this week. But it is only a game. So… ...
‘Ghost games’ needed to conclude the season? Mick D describes the eeriness March 23, 2020 - Eddie Baily, West Ham’s chief scout, kept up a constant chorus of insistent instructions from the touchline. Everyone in the stadium heard every word. Unfortunately, every second word was an expletive. But, as the attendance was less than 300, Baily’s bawling didn’t offend too many. It was Wednesday, October 1st,… ...
Mega-rich owners come with no guarantees of success. Plenty of examples of failure February 11, 2020 - Here are some comments from Twitter. All very recent. All genuine. All entirely predictable. “As things stand, our beloved old club is not rich enough to succeed in the modern game.” “It's the owners’ fault. You could stick any manager in, and we would still be getting the same issues… ...
VAR or not VAR? How about we go radical and let refs and their assistants officiate? December 30, 2019 - VAR. I hate it. It is ludicrous that officials are determining offside by the position of an atom at the edge of a toenail, the furthermost tip of a hair, or some other nanoscopic extremity. Ruling out Teemu Pukki’s goal against Spurs, and rendering Mario Vrancic’s sublime pass irrelevant, was… ...
MARTIN PETERS: A football genius – one that for five seasons we called our own December 22, 2019 - Two anecdotes say a lot about Martin Peters. Both require you to understand what the world was like more than forty years ago, when the A17 was even worse than now and when the coach carrying Norwich City to overnight hotels before away games rarely got out of low gears… ...
DUNCAN FORBES 1941 – 2019 November 15, 2019 - Today we said goodbye to one of the greats. One of our greats. And it's fitting that his final journey included a funeral service at Carrow Road. Mick Dennis, who was a reporter on the Pink Un when Duncan Forbes was in his pomp, was asked by the family to… ...
Farewell Big Dunc – the rock on which the modern version of Norwich City was built October 24, 2019 - Back in October 2013, when Big Dunc's diagnosis was first made public, our own Mick Dennis wrote a moving piece that captured perfectly the inextricable link between Duncan Forbes and Norwich City Football Club. Dunc was many things to many different people: fearless centre-back... warrior leader... wise old head... mentor...… ...

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