Such was Orient’s start to the season: losing only two league games and sitting comfortably top of the table on the last Saturday before Christmas after the 3-1 home victory over Chesterfield, that contrary to any notion of self-preservation a feeling of cautious optimism was starting to grow amongst the O’s faithful. Then came the […]
The problem with a title race that looks very much like it is going to go right down to the wire is that we find ourselves very much waiting for something determinant to happen. Many sage commenters and analysts are suggesting that both Liverpool and Manchester City are capable of breaking the ninety point threshold […]
With an impeccably prescient sense of timing, I wrote on these pages a month and a half ago that Arsenal’s “results and performances to date provide enough encouragement for us long-suffering Gooners to not only believe the future is bright but also that we might just be ahead of schedule in getting back to where […]
Part 1: We all follow the Orient…to Dagenham. Those who have followed Mrs Football Nerd and my spectacular descent into bona fide Leyton Orient obsession will know that there was no way that we could have even contemplated missing a Boxing Day trip to near(ish) neighbours Dagenham & Redbridge in the latest chapter of our […]
Back a few years ago when I was ‘celebrating’ the big ‘Four-O’ and contemplating the all-too-swift progression towards middle age, Mrs Football Nerd asked me what I wanted to do to mark the occasion. Never one that was likely to settle into a more sedate and relaxed way of life but definitely someone who could […]
While we all wanted change, any change, in response to the stale, dreary atmosphere around the club in Arsène’s final season, I am not sure any of us really anticipated just how much of a breath of fresh air our new Basque Head Coach would prove to be. Now with fifteen league games played including […]
Perhaps one of the more disturbing facets of being a football obsessive is the inability to be able to say no to going to a match, any match. So it was to prove for me once again last week. While the missus and I were on our recent holiday in Istanbul, my Tranmere Rovers diehard […]
After getting back from Istanbul, it didn’t take long for the missus and me to re-immerse ourselves in football and most specifically all things Leyton Orient, with some highly moving and emotional remembrance commemorations linked to the First World War. For those unaware, Clapton Orient, as they were back then, were the first club whose […]
Mrs Football Nerd and I consider ourselves to be seasoned football travellers having been to a significant number of the most iconic European football grounds, to the last two World Cups and a European Championships. Those trips are pre-planned in infinite detail to ensure that fixture dates and kick-off times have been confirmed, tickets secured […]
Periodically a story breaks in both the football-focused and news media alerting us to the desire of Europe’s elite clubs to break away from their own domestic leagues and to form a European Super League. This time it was German news magazine Der Spiegel that ran a story alleging that seven of Europe’s top clubs […]
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