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 […]
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 […]
I have lost count of the number of times this season I have written about Orient needing to string a run of positive results together and to start to climb the League 1 table. Without getting too carried away, I think on Saturday away at Burton we may just have seen the beginnings of Richie […]
For the opening 45 minutes last Saturday at home to Blackpool, things seemed to be going largely to plan for Orient. While it hadn’t been a first half of too many chances, Aaron Connolly’s stinging low strike midway through, (his 7th league goal of the campaign), had given us the lead at half-time. However right […]
In my post a few weeks back (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: A Step in the Right Direction.) after we had just beaten Lincoln City at Brisbane Road, I suggested “what is important now is to put a string of performances and results together, build some momentum, and start to climb what is looking like a congested […]
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