I think we will all be happy to just bring an end to this bizarre season and, assuming we keep on the road to recovery after this almost unbelievable global pandemic, get back to normality in our lives and more specifically our football-watching. Anyone who watched Orient’s final home game of the season against Carlisle […]
Hands up, who thought we would go to Southend, win comfortably and potentially relegate the Shrimpers to the National League last Saturday? Anyone who thought so was in good company as it looked for all the world as if the Orient players felt the same. Southend were very much in the last chance saloon going […]
I really did not want to write another f**k*n’ piece on the seemingly inevitable advent of a European Super League. Ever since I started this blog some five years ago, there have been periodic murmurings of the launch of such a money-oriented abomination of the game that we all love. While these have thankfully tended […]
Well what a nice and quiet news week it’s been in world football then! Thankfully last night’s Orient game provided not only a welcome distraction from the whole European Super League power and money grab by the Dirty Half-dozen, but also a timely reminder of what real football looks like. The result may not have […]
Going to second-placed Cheltenham looking to extend our seven game unbeaten run was always going to be a tough test, given that our hosts had been knocked out in the play-offs by Northampton last season and for most of this campaign they have been in and around the automatic promotions spots. The fact that coming […]
Hands up who feels disappointed after Easter Monday’s draw with lowly Walsall? As frustrating as our level of performance was after a recent run of four wins in a row capped off by a lively and energetic display at Mansfield just three days previously, might the disappointment that we are feeling at the boys not […]
Three wins in a row, nine points in eight days and up to ninth in the table just four points off play-off qualification, albeit having played a game more than Newport and Exeter who sit above us. What a turnaround it has been for interim manager Jobi McAnuff and the Orient squad. While we can’t […]
“Personally, I hold out little hope for our trips to Cardiff this weekend to face Newport County or to Carlisle on Tuesday night.” Those were the fateful words of your author in last week’s post, goes to show what I know hey! (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Yet more frustration on the pitch but reassuring words […]
As disappointing as Arsenal’s season has been this time around, certainly before Christmas even if things have picked up to an extent recently, perhaps the one (only?) bright spark has been the emergence of two supremely talented young players that look set to take the football world by storm at least in this country, if […]
“I’ve got a group of players that are underperforming and underachieving so I have to look at ways to turn that around.” That was the way that Orient’s interim manager Jobi McAnuff chose to sum up his thoughts speaking after the 1-1 draw with Scunthorpe last Saturday, the second in a mere matter of days against […]
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