Dean's award is a win for the the collective

TITLE-WINNING boss Dean Brennan reckons everyone around Barnet deserves acclaim after he was recognised with the Sports Ground Development Manager of the Year.

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Since making the switch from Wealdstone in 2021, the Irishman has helped the Bees blossom from relegation fodder to National League champions as they ended their seven-year exile from the English Football League in style after racking up 102 points.

But Brennan insists his Barnet’s successes on-and-off the pitch owe as much to the collective work of everyone in and around the club and not just those in the dugout.

"We're all together in this," Brennan told The NLP. "I always tell everybody, you have to get together to create success in this business and we've done it.

"We haven’t got promoted with finances or loads of money or anything like that. We've just done it with good old-fashioned hard work and honest people.

"These kind of awards, that’s a testament to everybody. It’s not just my award, it’s everybody’s award. All the coaching staff, all the players — everyone's as important as each other.