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 […]
Having written last week about how I felt the lack of a clear tactical plan and defined style of play was leading to Orient’s ongoing inconsistency (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Orient’s Seeming Lack of a Clear Plan and our Consistent Inconsistency.), against Cambridge last Saturday we saw Richie Wellens revert to his tried and trusted 4-2-3-1 […]
Is anyone else getting eerie flashbacks to last season? Having now played a quarter of our league games, we sit on exactly the same number of points as we were after 12 games last year, and we all know how that campaign played out! The latest capitulation, on a wet and windy Saturday afternoon at […]
I have a confession to make. Despite the fact that he played for a nation that was not fondly thought of in my own country, as a result of the Falklands Conflict just four years previously. Also, that he blatantly cheated against England in the quarter final. While watching Mexico 86 on TV, the footballing […]
At the risk of repeating myself from previous posts, it is really difficult to work out what this incarnation of Orient is, and how it is trying to play. Over our last two games: we have won a match in which the other team dominated possession and had more touches in our penalty area than […]
Have you ever found yourself completely inexplicably losing you temper with your football team? Or the referee? Or perceived bad luck? Or just general circumstances that have “conspired” against them to make them lose? I know I certainly have and, based on the content of this book, Dr Damien Pearse, a practising clinical psychologist and […]
On the face of it, a draw away at the second placed team in the league, one that had won 5 of its opening 8 matches, and with a new manager taking charging for the first time, is hardly a disgrace. In fact, a draw was probably more than most of us had anticipated going […]
Well, that didn’t go quite how we hoped! I ended last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Taking Stock of Orient’s Start to 2026/27.) suggesting that our next four matches were tough games, but if we could pick up a decent number of points “then there is reason to be optimistic that this could be […]
Thankfully, that is the international break interruption out of the way, for us at least, and we can now go back to focusing on all things Orient. Until the next one in November that is! With only seven league matches in the books, it is probably a tad early to conduct any meaningful analysis of […]
As soon as I heard about this book being released, (from the editor of the Leyton Orientear fanzine, no less!), I was absolutely desperate to read it. My formative football obsessive years coincided almost exactly with the explosion of the football fanzine movement in the latter half of the 80’s and into the 90’s. As […]
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 […]
