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Dreaming of snow, plastic pitches and the England managers role
Feb. 19 | After a three week break, the daggers were back on home turf and of course Brian Parish was in his usual spot hoping for some crumbs of comfort. A couple of postponements in the league meant that Tuesday nights visit to Oxford was our first game in League...
Millers put to the grind stone
Jan. 30 | After a weekend in Spain, Brian Parish returned to his favourite spot at Victoria Road for the clash with Rotherham United. Just when we thought that we may be turning a corner and hoped that we would start to get ourselves out of the mess that we found...
Devon knows why we can’t win away
Jan. 25 | After his exploits in Barcelona it was back to the grind of nPower League Two last night for Brian Parish as Dagenham & Redbridge made the long trip down to Devon. If a week is reckoned to be a long time in politics, then two and a half weeks supporting...
Hereford Ball Crap
Jan. 15 | Hope springs eternal is a familiar mantra of many football fans, but none more so this season than Brian Parish, our very own Daggers Diary author. After a great draw with Millwall last week in the cup, it was really the case of the Lord Mayor’s...
A muffled Lions roar
Jan. 8 | Brian Parish heads off to the early kick off in the FA Cup as Millwall come to East London accompanied by a huge police presence. The last few weeks have been good for the Daggers. Back to back wins at home between Christmas and the New Year over Barnet...
Daggers end the Christmas period in good shape
Jan. 3 | Brian Parish starts to see the green shoots of recovery at Dagenham & Redbridge. In the not too distant past, football used to be played on Christmas day. More recently, teams used to play the same sides twice over the festive period, and still do...
Daggers stop the slide in Marmite town
Dec. 18 | Christmas is generally regarded as a time when miracles happen. For a team that has lost nine league games in a row, a miracle would probably be a game where they managed to avoid defeat. Despite this run of “form”, one thread on the main Daggers...
Fulham’s Europa adventure comes to a very late end
Dec. 18 | It was interesting to note last week that, after both Manchester clubs went out of the champions league, the considered opinion of at least one national newspaper was that they now faced the humiliation of Thursday night football in the Europa League. So...
Any Port Vale in a storm
Dec. 12 | Brian Parish returns to Dagenham after his weekend in Barcelona to see if anything had got any better….It hadn’t. Today is the last home game before Christmas, and we entertain Port Vale in what has now become the latest in a long, long line...
