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 […]
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 […]
Now that World Cup 2026 is in the record books, with the best team (in the true sense of the word), Spain, worthy winners, it feels like an apposite time to look back on the most recent incarnation of the greatest football show on earth. Choice of Host Nations In comparison to the contentious decisions […]
After all the fun of our trip to the Basque country last year (Three Football Obsessives visit the Basque Country), my dad, Our Kid and yours truly had pretty much decided before we even touched back down in London that we would do it all again the following season. Surprisingly, it was my 81-year-old father who […]
Part 1 – Orient Nerd Season Review 2025/26 – Part 1: July to October 2025 Part 2 – Orient Nerd Season Review 2025/26 – Part 2: November 2025 to January 2026 We ended Part 2 of this season review with Orient desperately struggling for consistency. Their poor form having seen them drop to 18th place in the […]
Part 1 – Orient Nerd Season Review 2025/26 – Part 1: July to October 2025 In a similar vein to the previous season, it is fair to say that Orient’s 2025/26 had gotten off to something of a mixed start. We had won 5, drawn 2 and lost 7 of our opening 14 league fixtures and been […]
After our late surge to the play-offs, knocking out Stockport, and then being cruelly denied at Wembley (again!), it is probably fair to say that the majority of the Orient fanbase went into 2025/ 26 with a degree of optimism despite the significant number of first team departures over the summer and the need to […]
I guess last Saturday’s draw against Burton in our final match of the season was a performance and result that was entirely in keeping with the story of Orient’s 2025/26. If we were expecting a statement win to give us some crumbs of encouragement that better fortunes might lie ahead in 2026/27, it was underwhelming […]
A relatively short blog this week as quite frankly I am sick of writing the same thing over and over again each and every week through this season. Equally, the time for in-depth analysis has long gone, the situation is completely clearcut: if Orient beat Burton Albion tomorrow afternoon they guarantee their League 1 survival. […]
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