After two and a half seasons (for that is how us hopeless football obsessives measure time!) of dedicated work, I am very pleased to announce that my book detailing my decision to put my ludicrously over-priced Arsenal season ticket on hold and to follow Leyton Orient all over the country, has now finally been published. […]
I really don’t know where this came from. This utterly mad idea that I was going to put my ludicrously over-priced Arsenal season ticket on hold and instead spend the money I was wasting at the Emirates on endeavouring to watch all of Leyton Orient’s home matches and as many away ones as I could […]
We needed that! It certainly wasn’t pretty, nor was it a game of scintillating free-flowing football, but the fact that we ground out a win against Stevenage last Saturday was very welcome indeed. Having lost all three of our opening home league games this season, while demonstrating a very evident susceptibility to balls into our […]
177 days! That is how long it has been since we last heard “Rockin’ All Over the World” over the Tannoy at Brisbane Road after a league game. Since that 2-0 victory, ironically over Saturday’s opposition Wycombe Wanderers on the 21st of March, we have lost to Huddersfield, Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley and now Wycombe, and […]
It has been another week of mixed results for Orient: a hard-fought point away at Luton followed by a capitulation in the League Cup at home to Bradford. If I am completely honest, I wasn’t expecting too much from the trip to Kenilworth Road last Saturday. However, credit where it is due, the O’s gritted […]
It is really difficult to know what to make of Orient so far this season. A disappointing defeat is followed by an encouraging performance, only for us to then lose again and then bounce back with a resounding victory. At times the squad looks like it is building its understanding, at others it almost seems […]
After the frustration of the opening match of the league season at home to Sheffield Wednesday, it was vital that the players showed a response. They certainly did that in the trip to Wigan last Saturday with another encouraging performance, this time with the positive result that our efforts merited. Scoring first, and early, felt […]
An early and quick post this week, as the missus and I are away to celebrate her birthday for the next few days. Rest assured though, we will be wending our way to Wigan on Saturday morning! I am not 100% sure why but despite Orient showing some encouraging signs, especially in the first half, […]
It all felt a bit surreal on Saturday afternoon, with our first competitive match of the 2026/27 season being an EFL Trophy tie against an Oxford United side who were relegated from the Championship at the end of the last season. The decision to move the first round of the League Cup to the weekend […]
It’s that time already! Is it me or does the gap between the end of the previous season and the start of the new campaign seem to feel shorter each year? It really doesn’t feel that long ago since we were trooping out of Brisbane Road, underwhelmed at how our beloved O’s had only just […]
Part 1- The Football Nerds’ World Cup Adventures in the USA and Mexico- Part 1 It was a very early start for us on Sunday morning as we found ourselves waiting outside the hotel at the airport for the 6am shuttle bus to the terminals. With nothing very much open at that time, and with us frustratingly […]
Anyone who has followed this blog for a while will know that my wife Kay and I have developed a significant love affair with going to the World Cup. While we had always enjoyed watching the tournaments at home on TV, I think deep down we both knew that if we ever had the opportunity […]
