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Tag: Barcelona

European Football…

Messi back to prove a point

18 Feb 201419 Feb 2014
Faced with another weekend of rain and cancellations, the Daggers Diary team headed to the Costa del Messi to do a scouting report on Manchester City's next opponents. In November…
European Football…

Plymouth away or double Barca? Tough choice

26 Nov 201328 Nov 2013
Plymouth Argyle away on the cold and wet English Channel or Barcelona v Granada on the sunny Med?  Difficult choice for the Daggers Diary team. Today, the Daggers travel to…
European Football…

Ocho Santos…

3 Aug 20135 Aug 2013
Day one of the new season and the Dagger Diary team are in full swing, although a few hundred miles away from Fleetwood Town. When the Football League fixtures were…
European Football…

Write Barca off at your peril

15 Mar 201316 Mar 2013
History?  You want history?  What about the mighty Barca crashing out of the Champions League after a humiliating lesson in football in Milan?  That was sure to be on the…
European Football…

Derby Day in Barcelona

9 Jan 2013
Whilst the UK huddled under an umbrella last weekend, trying to keep warm with some FA Cup good cheer, the Daggers Diary team headed over to their warm weather retreat…
European Football…

El Clasico

27 Aug 201231 Aug 2012
Ten years ago the game between Barcelona and Real Madrid held little interest outside of Spain. But thanks to the arrival in Spain of David Beckham (and of course Michael…
European Football…

It’s not all about the Camp Nou

25 Jan 201226 Jan 2012
Brian Parish abandons the Daggers for one weekend and heads off to the delights of Barcelona. About twice a season, Dagenham Dan and I eschew the delights of Dagenham, and…
Non league football

Come feel the (lack of) noise

8 Dec 2011
Faced with watching another potential Dagenham and Redbridge defeat and some winter sunshine watching the world's best team, it is not hard to understand why Brian and Dagenham Dan headed…
Barclaycard Premier League…

How Man v Food became Man Utd v Barcelona

5 Aug 20117 Aug 2011
Our Englishman in New York, Luge Pravda, reflects on quite a weekend, and why he loves his wife...of course it's football related! This past weekend was one of the most…
European Football

This is a recipe for disaster

28 May 201129 May 2011
Plans change at the drop of a hat in TBIR towers, so when the trusty TBIR taxi failed a late fitness test, our venue for watching the game tonight switched…
Spain

Cataloons

17 May 201117 May 2011
Faced with a free weekend of football, our man behind the very successful Daggers Diary, Brian Parish and Dan Campbell headed off to Barcelona for a weekend of football. When…
Blue Square South…

Sussex Socios

6 May 20117 May 2011
What is the biggest football club in the world?  It is a difficult one to judge as you need to define the criteria.  Is the biggest club the richest or…
European Football

European football weekends…gone wrong!

12 Nov 201014 Nov 2010
So last month we covered some of the best places to go in Europe to watch football. Hamburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Cologne all scored very highly from our expert panel,…
Bundesliga…

Debt! Who needs debt when you have profit!

5 Jul 20095 Jul 2009
In April 2009 Forbes magazine published a list of the World 25 Richest clubs.  The list unsurprisingly is headed by Manchester United and Real Madrid, with Arsenal surprisingly in third…

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