Going into this run of three games in a week, I have to admit that I was slightly apprehensive. As good as Orient’s unbeaten run in the league had been, I was a bit concerned that the step up in quality of opposition (at least in the form of Reading and Stockport), an always tough […]
After all the fun, drama and excitement of the giant-killing of Derby County last week, this week has felt a little bit “after the lord mayor’s show”. It’s not that I thought the goalless draw at Peterborough was especially disappointing, or that I will lose a great deal of sleep over exiting the Pizza Cup […]
So how was your Tuesday evening? Sometimes, just once in a while, this magical game of football throws up one of those matches that reminds us all why we fell in love with the game in the first place. To come out of a ground absolutely buzzing, physically shaking from the pure emotion and excitement […]
I guess it was kind of inevitable that after a very busy and hectic run of five matches in three weeks, fatigue, both physical and mental, was going to catch up with the squad and we would have to grit our way through a match. There were signs of that at Bristol Rovers on New […]
In my last blog post before the Christmas break, looking ahead to the five league matches in three weeks that were facing us, I rather tentatively suggested that: “making predictions is always a dangerous practice but if we can say win at least two and draw one, possibly two, of those matches then it is […]
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