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 […]
*Note to self: Have you not learnt never to feel that Orient version 2025/26 have turned a corner form-wise! (Exhibit A:Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Orient’s Reset Gets Off to an Encouraging Start). Before we (yet again!) get stuck into what has gone so horribly wrong for Orient this season, here are some facts (with apologies for […]
I am not going to lie; I was genuinely fearful going into Saturday’s trip to Edgeley Park to take on Stockport. Orient’s inability to find any semblance of consistency, combined with the fact that we were facing a team with genuine promotion aspirations, and who undoubtedly felt that they owed us one after we put […]
So another week and another disappointing defeat to discuss! On Sunday afternoon as we were conducting our usual post-mortem of Orient’s defeat at home to bottom-of-the-table Port Vale, I told the missus that I was so sick of writing the same thing week in week out, so she suggested we ask AI what is wrong […]
After we got back from the debacle at Doncaster, the missus thought it would be interesting to put a poll on the Leyton Orient Supporters Chat page on Facebook. The question she posed was: “Who is responsible for the sh*t show Orient are in?”, with the possible responses covering: the players, Richie Wellens, Martin Ling, […]
Wow I didn’t see that one coming at all! Given how Orient have struggled for consistency all season, and that Reading, now free of the clutches of their previous malevolent owner, are seemingly a club on the rise; I don’t mind admitting that going into the match I honestly thought a draw would be a […]
Sometimes in football to try to snap a team out of a poor run of form, a manager just needs to change things up and try something a bit different. To an extent that is what we saw in Leyton Orient’s 1-1 draw with league leaders Cardiff last Saturday. Obviously our ongoing extensive injury absences […]
In my last post before the festive break after the very welcome victory over Bradford, I suggested that with the games coming thick and fast over the holiday period “a good run could really push us up a very congested table, whereas negative results could see us dropping down.” Sadly for Orient fans it was […]
Not for the first time this season, Orient went into Saturday’s match at home to high-flying Bradford City looking for a response after a disappointing performance in their previous outing. However, for the first 25 minutes or so we didn’t look anything like a team that was intent on making a statement. While we had […]
It took all of 10 minutes for a familiar feeling of frustration to come washing over me at Oakwell on Saturday afternoon. Once again Orient were unable to follow up an improved performance at home to Luton with another encouraging one, an all too familiar failing throughout 2025/26 so far. Either in an attempt to […]
It is really difficult to know what to make of Leyton Orient in 2025/26 so far. Just when we had put in a solid performance to secure a convincing win away at Burton which suggested we may have turned a corner form-wise (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Positive Signs.), we follow it up with two abject cup […]
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