It’s all my dad’s fault! The reason that Our Kid (my brother for the benefit of those of you that don’t hail from the north west of England!) and yours truly are completely hopeless football obsessives is because my Dad is and always has been one. Throughout our childhood which was split between the Wirral, […]
Often in football when a team is mired in a bit of a slump something unexpected can act as a catalyst and spark it back into form. While I don’t think Orient’s recent upturn in fortunes can be put solely down to Josh Keeley’s extraordinary equalizer and Dan Agyei’s late winner against Oldham in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 2023 November was something of an unusual month in that out of the six matches that we played in all competitions, only the final one was away: at Bristol Rovers on a chilly Tuesday evening. The first of these matchups was a first round FA Cup tie against Carlisle, the team we had defeated […]
When the fixtures for this season were announced back in June, I suspect I was far from alone in earmarking the away game at Derby (along with Burton, Portsmouth and Barnsley) as the standout away trips. Maybe it was the fact that our injury-addled squad really has nothing to play for, as well as another […]
Armed with the advance knowledge that Orient’s game against Exeter had been postponed due to international call-ups, the missus and I wasted no time whatsoever in booking ourselves a long weekend in Barcelona. It was the first place we had been to together on holiday, and a city that we have revisited on several occasions […]
Well that was quite a turn up for the books wasn’t it? To go to Stevenage with a squad depleted by injury, match them physically, frustrate them, and ultimately escape with all three points was not only unexpected but very welcome in the Orient camp. Like most (all?) Orient fans, I am not overly fond […]
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