It had to be Orient didn’t it? If any EFL squad was going to have a significant number of their players test positive for Covid-19, causing the cancellation of a glamour League Cup tie against Premier League opponents and the postponement of their third league game of the season, you would have got short odds […]
Increasingly during the ongoing and now worsening Coronavirus pandemic, every time I sit down to write about football it has to involve more and more consideration and thought to the impact of the subsequent lockdown and the restriction on fans being able to attend matches on the future of the game. Last week I reflected […]
So football’s back once again, but as yet we still have some weeks to wait before we can even countenance a return for fans even in limited numbers, although in an encouraging move the English Football League (EFL) has been permitted to allow the return of up to 1,000 fans into pilot matches starting from […]
One of, if not the most frustrating things about the suspension of football due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown of life as we once knew it, is perhaps the uncertainty of what football might look like when (if?) it comes back. This is especially true for those of us who are used […]
Mrs Football Nerd and I desperately miss Orient, most of all our usual match day routine of heading up to the Leyton Star as early as is justifiable without being painted as the alcoholics that we probably are (although admittedly the Coronavirus lockdown and the apparent response of British society to drink through it suggests […]
So another game where the O’s take the lead and another game where they get pegged back. Perhaps the most galling thing about last Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Oldham was that we appeared to be in control of the game and took the lead after just eleven minutes through either Ouss Cissé or an own […]
Following hot on the heels of the disappointing dropping of two sought-after points against Macclesfield, came the chance to put things right and widen the gap against another team sitting below us in the table, just three days later. If there was any sense of déjà vu however it was swiftly eradicated by the vastly […]
Such is the impact of circumstance that the same result in a football match can provoke completely contrasting feelings depending on how it has been arrived at. Only a couple of weeks back Mrs Football Nerd and I had a spring in our step as we headed up the road for our usual post-match debrief […]
With a school night trip to Crewe having to be ruled out, albeit reluctantly, we felt we deserved a Saturday awayday to somewhere within our established radius of being no more than an hour by train outside London. So it was to the ‘delightful, picturesque’ (or so we were led to believe by absolutely no […]
As sometimes happens, the football fixture planning fates have aligned and given Mrs Football Nerd and I a run of games that combine home games and easy-enough to get to away games all without the interference of my own Arsenal-watching commitments. Starting last Saturday with the visit of Newport County, the missus and I are […]
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