Author: Gavin Dimmock
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#32. “Lucky. Lucky. Lucky”
The DadLadTour (Now Actually In Switzerland) Day 1 (Part 1) – Manchester to Zürich 9th July 2025 The alarm I set on my phone goes off. At 0430…Even though half asleep, I slap the screen silencing whatever ghastly tune I set for it to play. Well, the track is one from my iPhone and is…
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#31. “One Day Away From Your Alps….”
8th July 2025 0930 hours. As the title of our latest blog piece gently suggests, The DadLadTour will soon be in Switzerland. In little more than 24 hours GrumpPa and #SonInLawNo1 will be breathing fresh Alpine air and marvelling at the beauty of the Swiss landscape. Woohoo!! Months of planning and expectation and all the…
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#30. “Hey, What’s Going On?….”
Hey! It wasn’t supposed to start like this. But, somewhere between July 31st 2022 at a euphoric Wembley and today in Zürich, that particular memo wasn’t passed on to the French women’s team. Or, more likely, it was passed on to them and, by virtue of simply being French, they chose to completely ignore the…
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#29. “Foolish Games We Had To Play….”
0918 hours, Saturday. July 5th. It’s Day 4 of Euro 2025. The Lionesses enter the tournament at 2000 (BST) today. I am excited and nervous in roughly equal measure; my excitement just about outweighing my apprehension. Our girls face France in their first game in what many have dubbed “The Group of Death” (GoD). There…
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#28. “Guess Who’s Back….”
OK, hands up. Who else winced and, shocked, put their hands to their mouths in minute 90+1 of England versus Jamaica yesterday? And, like me, were you mumbling words akin to, “Oh, no! No! Please not. That was horrible!” I suspect a great many Lionesses fans were worried for England’s Beth Mead as she was…
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#27. “The Perfect 10….”
1401 hours: And here they are. All twenty-three players now have their numbers. There are no surprises among them; Alessia Russo retains her preferred 23 shirt, Lucy Bronze stays at 2 and Keira Walsh once more wears the number 4 shirt. Leah Williamson will wear the 6 shirt. Ella Toone, Manchester United’s favourite lass –…
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#26. “Numbers In My Little Red Book….”
21st June 2025 Last night in bed, while waiting for sleep to claim me and with two fans moving warm air around our bedroom – only slightly cooling it from the heat of an unbearably hot day (27 degrees! In Yorkshire!! At 10pm!!!) – I composed the opening lines to this latest blog entry. As…
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#25. “Let Me Play Among The Stars…”
This will be The Final Post for the DadLadTour blog. Fret not, dear reader. It won’t be the final post. As in the last one, no more to follow. But this is The Final Post. Confused? Then read on and all might – probably not, as I’m a tad emotional as I write this –…
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#24. “It’s My Life…”
I had two tickets for yesterday’s Women’s FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Manchester United; both seats in the lower tier of the United end, just behind the goal. They were as close as we could get the ones we had last year when United won the trophy for the very first time. I was…
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#23. “I Don’t Know If I Can Do It…”
“Football isn’t a game, nor a sport, it’s a religion.” Diego Maradonna (c.1986) REM released four singles in 1991. The first of these, “Losing My Religion”, went on to become a huge worldwide hit and is now considered a rock classic. Heck, it was already a classic the moment it got its first play on…
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