How annoyingly frustrating are international breaks? Especially this one that comes just as the season is getting underway to accommodate the Nations League – a “competition” that most football fans don’t really understand, and even fewer see the point of! Perhaps the only good thing is that the enforced break from league action will have […]
Well that was all a bit disappointing wasn’t it? After the relative high of the unexpected win at Millwall in the League Cup, Orient fans were brought crashing down to earth by a stagnant performance and 3-0 capitulation at lowly Shrewsbury Town. It is now the O’s that sit bottom of the table, the only […]
When I first sat down to write this piece on Tuesday afternoon, I was all set for a deep dive into where it had gone wrong for Orient after three consecutive league defeats to start the 2024/25 campaign. Then we had the performance and result at the Den on Tuesday evening, which not only saw […]
A slightly briefer round-up of all things Orient this week, as the missus and I have been in my “hometown” of Rotterdam this week. While unfortunately our schedule didn’t allow us to catch a Feyenoord match, it did provide an ideal tonic from the frustration at The Valley last Saturday. Thanks to another altered kick-off […]
As I walked out of Brisbane Road on Saturday evening, the one word that kept echoing round my head was “naïve”. I wasn’t disappointed per se, but former O Victor Adeboyejo’s winner for Bolton with just quarter of an hour left to play felt like something of a sucker punch. Going into the match it […]
So here we go then, it’s time to strap ourselves in and get ready for Orient’s 2024/25 adventure. I think we can all agree that while we ran out of steam a little bit towards the end, thanks in no small part to the significant injuries that we picked up throughout the campaign, last season […]
Part 1 – Berlin – The Orient Nerds’ Summer Holiday Part 1: Ein Euro-Fußball-Abenteuer in Deutschland- Berlin Part 2- Munich – The Orient Nerds’ Summer Holiday Part 2: Ein Euro-Fußball-Abenteuer in Deutschland-München here we come! A mere couple of weeks after returning from Germany we were off on our travels again, this time up to the grand […]
Carrying on from Berlin (The Orient Nerds’ Summer Holiday Part 1: Ein Euro-Fußball-Abenteuer in Deutschland- Berlin) Part 2 of our Euro 2024 adventure saw us head down south to the Bavarian City of Munich. Sunday morning and it was up and out early for us as we wanted to make sure we got to the station […]
Ever since our honeymoon, which we of course spent at the World Cup in Brazil, the missus and I have developed a particular penchant for attending the major football tournaments when they come around. Our usual approach is to pick some location(s) in the first week of the tournament (as the better half says, when […]
February 2024 February got underway with a comfortable 3-2 win at home over Carlisle, a late penalty for the visitors making the game seem much closer than it had been in reality. The O’s dominance was better reflected in the fact that we enjoyed 58% possession and had a total of 17 shots on goal. […]
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