Written by Football NerdFebruary 28, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- A mixed bag for the Premier League clubs as European battle lines are re-drawn, while Arsenal’s familiar chickens come home to roost.

There is always a frisson of excitement for football obsessives when the battle-lines are redrawn on the European front and the Champions League and Europa League start their knockout phases. With the domestic season having turned into a procession thanks to Liverpool’s utter supremacy, this season the continental stage potentially offers more intriguing competition. After […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 26, 2020February 26, 2020

A month in the life of two Orient Obsessives – Part 5: Never let Orient near your dog as they can’t hold onto a lead!

So another game where the O’s take the lead and another game where they get pegged back. Perhaps the most galling thing about last Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Oldham was that we appeared to be in control of the game and took the lead after just eleven minutes through either Ouss Cissé or an own […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 21, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- UEFA can’t afford not to follow through on their punishment of Manchester City but need to be wary of the potential future implications.

UEFA’s announcement last Friday that Manchester City would be banned from participating in European competition, (in their case the Champions League), for two seasons for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, may have been several years in the making but it was still somewhat surprising as most of us doubted whether UEFA would actually […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 14, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Is there any real benefit from the Premier League’s first Mid-Season Break?

So how are we all enjoying the Premier League’s very first Mid-Season Break then? Will we accept the annoying reduction in fixtures for the greater good in terms of the positive impact it will have on English club’s chances in the latter stages of European competition and on our national team’s hopes at the upcoming […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 13, 2020

A month in the life of two Orient Obsessives – Part 4: Another victory means 7 points from 9 against teams below us and everything seems a bit rosier!

Following hot on the heels of the disappointing dropping of two sought-after points against Macclesfield, came the chance to put things right and widen the gap against another team sitting below us in the table, just three days later. If there was any sense of déjà vu however it was swiftly eradicated by the vastly […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 11, 2020February 12, 2020

A month in the life of two Orient Obsessives – Part 3: Being frustrated at a home draw may be a strange sign of progress.

Such is the impact of circumstance that the same result in a football match can provoke completely contrasting feelings depending on how it has been arrived at. Only a couple of weeks back Mrs Football Nerd and I had a spring in our step as we headed up the road for our usual post-match debrief […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 7, 2020February 7, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings – Is this the end of Pep’s and Manchester City’s dominance?

As damming a defeat as it was in terms of any vague slither of belief they may have held that they could haul back Liverpool and somehow claw their way back to shaping some form of challenge to the Anfield club’s procession to the title; it was the way that Manchester City found a way […]

Written by Football NerdFebruary 5, 2020

A month in the life of two Orient Obsessives – Part 2: Stevenage here we come!

With a school night trip to Crewe having to be ruled out, albeit reluctantly, we felt we deserved a Saturday awayday to somewhere within our established radius of being no more than an hour by train outside London. So it was to the ‘delightful, picturesque’ (or so we were led to believe by absolutely no […]

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Month: February 2020