“You can never be too confident when you’re an O’s supporter. 50 years of training has taught me that. Don’t count your chickens! I’m really trying to enjoy where we are, but…” @TedTalksOrient Twitter 29/3/19 Those prophetic words were uttered by a long-standing Orient supporting associate of Mrs Football Nerd’s and mine, in response to […]
It has generally been accepted for a good few weeks / months that the title race is a two horse race, which will be determined by whoever blinks first between Liverpool and Manchester City. However below those two standout teams of the season, another exciting race is starting to bubble away. A mere matter of […]
We always knew deep in our hearts that it was never going to be easy. A run of five league wins in a row, and eight in all, had set Orient up nicely, but winning all of our remaining games, cruising to the title and automatic promotion would have been too easy and frankly too […]
Two wins out of two, six points out of six, ten goals for and just one against and a four point lead in the group already, so England are finding the going tough in their Euro 2020 qualification group then! As I pondered on this page last week (https://football-nerd.org/2019/03/22/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-international-break-boredom-var-creates-an-un-level-playing-field-and-orient-one-step-away-from-wembley/), one wonders what strange logic anyone […]
As football fans we’ve all done that mental management of expectations during the course of a match, a run of games or even over an entire season. Where we try to convince ourselves that: conceding a goal, drawing a match, losing one even, doesn’t necessarily mean the end of our chances of winning the match, […]
Interlull Tedium So here we are in the deepest darkest depths of another Interlull (© Arseblog), after the relative excitement generated by the fledgling Nations League, this one sees a return to the overwhelming tedium of qualification for Euro 2020. Back in 2016 when the Euros expanded to 24 teams, it was suggested that the […]
So another weekend passes and another win each for Manchester City and Liverpool and still no decisive move in the race for the Premier League title. First up on Saturday evening Manchester City made light work of Watford thanks to a thirteen minute hat-trick from Raheem Sterling. On Sunday Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool responded to the […]
After two vital away wins in four days at Havant & Waterlooville and Barrow, Orient returned home for a potentially pivotal clash with top of the table Wrexham last Saturday. Anyone familiar with the O’s track record in live TV matches will appreciate that confidence was far from high amongst the Orient faithful going into […]
For the first time since Opta has been gathering the data a team failed to record a single shot on or off target in a Premier League match. The fact that it was Eddie Howe’s usually progressive Bournemouth side made it even more puzzling. Howe has in the past, on several occasions, stated that he […]
In what is an absolutely pivotal run of three games in a week, Orient are over the first two hurdles and just about continue to hold their fate in their own hands. Going into these games having won just one of their previous five league games since the turn of the year, it was absolutely […]
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