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Mick Dennis is a retired sports writer, broadcaster, editor and author. He attended Isleworth Grammar School before taking a National Council for the Training of Journalists course at Harlow College and then training as a reporter on the Eastern Daily Press. In a career of more than 40 years in newspapers he wrote for The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, the London Evening Standard and The Daily Express,. 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 and was an active football referee for more than 25 years. He worked as a volunteer in the communications department of the international aid charity Plan UK and was a trustee of Victim Support Hertfordshire. He still mentors young referees. He served on various funding panels for the Football Foundation as an independent member, including spells as chair of the Foundation's Social Fund and as the initial vice-chair of the Premier League & FA Facilities Fund. He was a trustee of Norwich City's Community Sports Foundation for nine years, during which that organisation raised funds for, and opened, a community sports and education hub: The Nest. He was a trustee and director of the Dacorum Sports Trust from its formation in 2003 until May 2018 and was its chair for five years, during which the Trust built an extreme sports facility. On resigning from Sportspace's board of trustees he was appointed an honorary patron. He was a founder member of Kick it Out's grassroots advisory group. 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 Initiativ