After three highly impressive victories away at Cambridge and Portsmouth and then at home against Bolton, it felt a little bit frustrating to be held to a draw at ongoing crisis club Reading. Maybe I had allowed myself to get carried away thinking we would simply take the game to our opponents, get the goals […]
There is a very tangible feelgood factor overtaking the Orient fanbase at the moment. Buoyed by our recent run of good form, you could actually feel the buzz in the air as we headed to Brisbane Road on Saturday afternoon. Even with that renewed sense of optimism, I don’t think any of us expected it […]
I don’t think anyone was expecting an Orient performance like the one we put in at Fratton Park last Saturday! From start to finish, and from one to eleven, the O’s really took the game to Portsmouth and the league leaders had little in the way of response. Even though we were already two goals […]
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. […]
After a self-enforced “winter break” thanks to our disappointing cup exit at Chesterfield, our beloved O’s are back in action tomorrow with the much anticipated trip to Fratton Park to face Portsmouth. I can’t have been alone in watching the FA Cup highlights last Saturday evening and rueing the fact that we hadn’t had the […]
It was a busy and ultimately pretty successful festive period both for the playing squad and Orient fans, however the missus’ and mine got off to the worst possible start. Standing on the concourse at London Euston 10 mins before our scheduled departure, we got the news that our train to Manchester Piccadilly had been […]
Football eh? Even nearly a full week later I am still trying to get my head round what happened at Whaddon Road last Saturday. For the first hour plus of the match against Cheltenham Orient were utterly abysmal. If we thought the performance against Chesterfield in the FA Cup was bad, this was even worse, […]
Well that was a humbling experience wasn’t it? While I don’t think any of us really expected to beat Derby County, to throw away any chance of getting back into the game through our own ill-discipline was annoying to say the very least. In fairness I thought we started the encounter with a much more […]
I know I was far from alone, but I had the right hump when the final whistle went up at Chesterfield on Sunday afternoon. It wasn’t just the fact that we had exited the FA Cup, I realise in the grand scheme of the 2023/24 season that while a run in the cup would have […]
Last week we pondered two differing home defeats (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Two contrasting defeats but plenty of food for thought for Richie Wellens.), this week we’ve got two slightly contrasting draws to consider, one at Brisbane Road and the other on our travels on a cold night in Bristol. Starting with the draw at home […]
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