Mick Dennis

Mick Dennis (born 10 May 1952 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England) is an editor and author and a retired sports writer and broadcaster.

In a career of more than 40 years in newspapers, he wrote (mostly about football) for The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror,[1] The Daily Telegraph, the London Evening Standard (where he held a number of executive positions, including sports editor)[2] and The Daily Express,[3] (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 is a magistrate and a football referee. He worked as a volunteer in the communications department of the international aid charity Plan UK [4] and was a trustee of Victim Support Hertfordshire.[5] He mentors young referees,[6] has served on various funding panels for the Football Foundation and is currently vice-chair of the Premier League & FA Facilities Fund.[7] He is a trustee of Norwich City's Community Sports Foundation.[8] He was a trustee and director of the Dacorum Sports Trust (which trades as Sportspace) from its formation in 2003 until May 2018, was its chair for five years and, on resigning from the board of trustees, became an honary patron. He was a founder member of Kick it Out's grassroots advisory group.[9] He collaborated with referee Graham Poll on the latter's autobiography, "Seeing Red", and "Geoff Hurst, The Hand Of God and the Biggest Rows in Football." He has written a book about football, The Team, which is part of the Quick Reads Initiative series of books, aimed at readers who lack confidence,[10] and has contributed to four anthologies of sports writing. Since retiring from newspaper and broadcast journalism in 2015 he has edited three collections of Norwich City essays called Tales From The City.[11] He was one of the original contributors to the Norwich City blogsite My Football Writer and continues to write occasional columns for that site.[12] He lives in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. He has been married for more than 40 years. He and his wife, Sarah, a former journalist and charity worker, have two married sons and six grandchildren.