What price a Dagenham double this season?

Stacey Solomon winning the X Factor and the Daggers clinching promotion?

Stacey, who the PA announcer kept telling us lives just 200 yards from the Victoria Road ground, might need a few more votes than just the hardcore 2,000 fans getting on their mobiles.

But John Still's side could take some stopping.

They may play in a way that won't impress the judges but 19 points from a possible 21 at home is a strong case for a top-seven finish for the first time in their history.

Stacey was obviously too tied up to be there on Saturday so instead the main stand had to make do with the constant shrieking of Abu Ogogo's sisters. They were a poor substitute.

The two of them sat directly above the players' tunnel and embarrassed the young right back every time he came within ten yards.

The cacophony of noise from their row when he slotted home the Dagenham winner threatened to rip off the roof.

Structural damage would not have shocked anybody on a day which saw a 20-minute power cut and a fuse box fire behind the goal opposite the City fans.

They were housed in the most luxurious seats; the new covered end which was only seeing its second game.

It was Dagenham's biggest crowd of the season by far. However much we try to play it down, City remain a big scalp as home boss Still kept repeating afterwards.

But it's the second-placed Daggers who are the real catch, particularly on their own cramped manor.

City came close but, like the losers given the boot by Simon Cowell and Co, they headed home with nothing.

It was not a day for off-days and, unfortunately, there were a few in black shirts.

Fingers will be pointed at Simon Eastwood again over both Dagenham goals.

McCall felt the blame for the first on eight minutes was on those who failed to react to the loose ball afer the keeper had failed to claim the game's first corner.

Eastwood has been criticised for his tendency to hug the goalline. On this occasion he chased a ball he didn't need to, couldn't get anything on it, and watched in a helpless heap as Scott Griffiths nudged goalwards for Paul Benson to convert with his knee.

The Huddersfield loanee atoned for the judgement error with a couple of big saves later on, most notably to spare the blushes of Steve Williams by palming away his misguided own goal-bound header at the start of the second half.

But Dagenham's second did him no favours again. The cross should have been stopped but when it wasn't, Eastwood found himself wide of his goal as Jon Nurse teed up Ogogo to give his supporting banshees their chance to really let rip.

Eastwood was not the only fall guy. Zesh Rehman came off distinctly second best against Benson while Scott Neilson hardly scratched the surface on his recall.

And yet City could still have left this raw corner of Essex with something.

Birthday boy Michael Flynn pulled them up by their bootlaces with another top-drawer strike to cancel out the sluggish start.

Tony Roberts punched a corner clear of the penalty area - only to see the ball come flying back with interest courtesy of the Welshman's flying first-time strike.

And when Dagenham blew an instant chance to restore their lead from the penalty spot, it looked like the tide had turned.

Referee Mick Russell later admitted that it shouldn't have been a spot-kick, which is becoming a bugging habit of officials of late.

He gave it anyway for Nurse's theatrical fall under the combined pressure of Rehman and Simon Ramsden. But Benson, maybe out of guilt but more likely as a result of Flynn's "encouragement" as he ran up, delivered the worst penalty you will see for many a year.

While the fire brigade attended to the electrical blaze, City took control for the remainder of the half. Lee Bullock got on the ball and carried on his good work from the previous week and the visitors looked a decent threat.

Gareth Evans had their best chance but the recalled striker, only playing because Michael Boulding had woken up under the weather, snatched at it after Flynn and Neilson had combined to carve Dagenham open.

It looked a costly miss and City soon found themselves back under the cosh as the second half started the same way as the first.

Benson and Danny Green went close - as well as Williams - and Eastwood plunged at the feet of Nurse after a mistake by Flynn.

There were shades of Paul Mullin last season as City had a dangerous counter-attack flagged off for James Hanson's supposed foul on Roberts.

But then Peter Gain's cross was collected by Benson and Nurse and, with Eastwood not at home, right back Ogogo had his first goal in senior football.

City hit back hard late on but, apart from one Luke O'Brien effort, forced little to unnerve Roberts as the resolute Daggers back four showed how it should be done to negotiate several scrambled moments.

That's two losses on the spin but McCall insisted there was no need for the doom merchants to take over.

He said: "We are a young side trying to gel together and have had some good performances this season.

"We were up against one of the best sides in the division and we could have squeezed a point.

"There were spells in the game which gave me enough encouragement to know that we've got a good nucleus of players. We'll give teams problems but now it's about reacting the right way."

DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE	BRADFORD CITY
1 Tony Roberts	1 Simon Eastwood
6 Mark Arber	2 Simon Ramsden
7 Danny Green	3 Luke O'Brien
8 Stuart Thurgood	4 Michael Flynn
9 John Nurse	5 Zesh Rehman
12 Scott Griffiths	8 Lee Bullock
14 Paul Benson	9 Gareth Evans
19 Abu Ogogo	12 Steve Williams
25 Will Antwi	17 James Hanson
26 Tommy Tejan-Sie	19 James O'Brien
33 Peter Gain	26 Scott Neilson
Substitutes:	Substitutes:
30 Chris Lewington	13 Jon McLaughlin
4 Scott Doe for 12 (88)	6 Matthew Clarke for 12 (87)
12 Steven Demetriou	11 Chris Brandon for 19 (61)
22 Graeme Montgomery for 9 (90)	16 Jonathan Bateson
24 Billy Bingham	20 Leon Osborne for 26 (68)
35 Harlee Dean	21 Luke Sharry

MATCH OFFICIALS:
Referee	M Russell
Assistant Referee	M George
Assistant Referee	J Magill
4th Official	R Kendall

GOALSCORERS:
DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE	BRADFORD CITY
Benson (8)	Flynn (18)
Ogogo (72)

DISCIPLINARY
DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE	BRADFORD CITY
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