After a picking up four points from two tough away games at Exeter and Peterborough, a hard-fought 1-0 win over a resolute Shrewsbury side ensured that the O’s continue to build on the momentum generated over the last few weeks. It was far from being a scintillating performance, but as is often said: toughing out […]
Four points from two tough away fixtures in successive weeks, is not just probably more than most of us expected, but it also perhaps suggests that the revamped Orient squad is beginning to settle and get to grips with life in the third tier. Probably the most impressive aspect of these two results is the […]
After the previous week’s defeat at the hands of an old foe in the form of Stevenage, and to a lesser extent the shambolic loss to Gillingham in the Pizza Cup (EFL Trophy), it is probably fair to say that you would have been hard pushed to find an O’s fan going into the away […]
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 […]
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 […]
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