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Dagenham & Redbridge: It’s Daggers drawn for Lee Bradbury

Lee Bradbury says big characters and early momentum will be critical to Dagenham & Redbridge’s hopes of making an instant return to the National League.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 June 2025

By Chris Dunlavy

Lee Bradbury says big characters and early momentum will be critical to Dagenham & Redbridge’s hopes of making an instant return to the National League.
The Daggers – a League One side in 2011 – will begin next season outside the top five tiers of English football for the first time in 25 years.
“We are Dagenham & Redbridge, we are in National League South,” says Bradbury, who was appointed manager on Wednesday following the end-of-season departure of Lewis Young.
“For a lot of these teams, we will be their cup final.
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“We’ll need to bring in personalit...

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