Well that felt like a bit of a kick in the teeth didn’t it? After such a highly convincing performance and result against Cambridge just seven days previously, falling to defeat against a Stevenage side from whom we should have known exactly what to expect, was beyond frustrating. We started the game positively enough and […]
Well doesn’t that feel a whole lot better! While it’s still very early days in the 2023/24 season, Orient’s 2-0 win over Cambridge United last Saturday felt more important than simply securing our first win and first three points of the fledgling campaign. While I wasn’t necessarily worried per se about how we were adjusting […]
Usually a goalless draw feels a little bit underwhelming, however, for me at least, last Saturday’s result at Blackpool coming on the back of opening our goalscoring account for the season and being very unlucky not to get something out of the game at Wycombe, felt more like a (admittedly small) step in the right […]
Three games played, three defeats and we still haven’t managed to win a single point on our return to League 1. On top of that the injury list continues to mount, (to the point where we nearly have a full eleven in the treatment room), and the manager and one of his assistants will now, […]
After a hiatus of just under three months, it felt very much as if the Orient faithful were chomping at the bit for our lads to get back into action and to see how we would fare in the new League 1 campaign. A notion that was certainly reflected in the whopping 3,122 O’s fans […]
Greetings and happy new season one and all! How have we all coped with the Orient-less void that normal people like to call “summer”? After carrying on the celebrations following a second title-winning season in six years for a good few weeks, including going to the League 2 Play-Off final to see which would be […]
Game 3: Spain v Costa Rica Al Thumama Stadium With our next match a 7pm kick-off and the fact that our first two days had been completely dominated by football-watching, we decided that we ought to have a stroll and see what Doha was really like. We walked down from our apartment to Souq Waqif, […]
Game 1: Netherlands v Senegal Al Thumama Stadium Al Thumama Stadium before The Netherlands v Senegal match After watching about half an hour of the England v Iran game, a sizeable chunk of which was taken up by treatment for the Iran goalkeeper after a clash of heads with his own defender, the continuous replays […]
By now we all know how Qatar “won” the rights to host the 2022 World Cup. How FIFA’s ongoing corruption allowed them to essentially buy it; and why their appalling treatment of migrant workers, attitudes to women and the LGBTQ+ community, the astronomical cost of building the stadiums and infrastructure, the necessity to move the […]
The final whistle at Valley Parade on Monday brought to an end the 2022/23 season, a campaign that will live long in the memories of the Orient faithful. Before we get into reminiscing about the season we have just had, I have to say that I am a huge fan of Valley Parade and Bradford […]
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