As the dust settles on Orient’s 2024/25 campaign, it is probably fair to say that after a difficult start to the season, it was one of further establishment in League 1, although we came very close to a hugely unexpected promotion to the Championship. To call the season just gone a rollercoaster would be an […]
As I limped my way out of Wembley on Sunday afternoon, I was a bundle of mixed emotions. I was disappointed, totally gutted in fact, that the O’s hadn’t really tested Charlton and ultimately not been able to realise our dream of an unexpected return to the second tier for the first time in 43 […]
I had originally started writing this piece on Thursday morning last week after Orient’s brave and resolute performance up at Edgeley Park, which saw them hold their nerve and win through on penalties against a very good Stockport side. However as tends to happen from time to time, life conspired to get in the way […]
This is the first part of two posts this week, well it isn’t every week that Orient are in the play-offs after all! Back in the depths of winter when we were looking to book our summer holidays, the missus (somehow?) convinced me that we would be ok to go away in the first two […]
Being totally honest, while I was hopeful that the O’s would get the result they needed away at Huddersfield last Saturday, I didn’t, even in my most wildly optimistic moments, expect it to be quite so straightforward. Even writing those words reflects just how well Orient have developed through the 2024-25 campaign. In the end […]
Having successfully negotiated the penultimate match of the league programme by producing a thoroughly professional win over Wycombe, Orient now stand just one more game away from a return to the League 1 play-offs for the first time in just over a decade. In the end a goal from an unlikely source: the head of […]
Despite my back injury confining me to barracks for the entire Easter weekend, Orient did their best to make sure it was an interesting one (to say the very least!), by coming from behind to win both matches they played. The 6 points secured and our superior goal difference to Reading’s served to put us […]
Isn’t it curious that different people can watch a football match and draw completely opposite conclusions from what they have seen? Unfortunately after managing to completely bugger up my back during the week, common sense (not something that usually comes to the fore in football-watching matters for me!) had to intervene, and I surrendered myself […]
After doing our job and picking up the win against Stevenage the preceding Thursday, last weekend’s League 1 results were relatively kind to Orient. Huddersfield got thumped 4-0 by a resurgent Charlton, Bolton lost 2-1 away at Blackpool, and even though Reading won 3-1 at home to Peterborough, we went into Tuesday’s match at Burton […]
In a season of too many lunchtime kick-offs and several matches rearranged due to international breaks, often at ridiculously short notice, last night we got our first taste of Thursday night football. Quite what the logic behind this decision is, is anyone’s guess? Especially given the fact that our scheduled game last Saturday was called […]
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