It is one of those things with football that depending on the context a similar result can either feel frustrating and negative or it can feel like a positive result and a step in the right direction. The last two Orient home displays being very much a case in point. Saturday’s goalless draw at home […]
After the impressive enough, even if slightly disappointing, draw in South Wales it was back to the home comforts of Brisbane Road for the O’s this week, the first a league match against a struggling Oldham Athletic followed by a Tuesday evening EFL Trophy Group Stage match. Going into Saturday’s game against Oldham there can’t […]
Some brief musings this week as thanks to the postponement of the Harrogate Town game scheduled for Tuesday night there is only one game to reflect on, the win over Exeter City last Saturday. Since KJ’s appointment as manager there has been a tangible feelgood atmosphere around the club, while we as Orient fans are […]
How can anyone even begin to explain the past two weeks in the life of Leyton Orient? First up we manage to beat the league leaders, Newport County, despite going a goal down midway through the first half, thanks to a resilient and impressive second half display and two opportunistically taken goals by DJ (who […]
Mrs Football Nerd and I were among the chosen ones to be able to get tickets to go to a real live football match last Tuesday: an EFL Trophy tie between Leyton Orient and Bristol Rovers. While the social distancing measures, compulsory facemasks and most importantly the pubs in the surrounding area and concession and […]
So, let’s start with the disappointing, the 2-0 defeat at Scunthorpe. Winning away games is never a given of course, even against a team that had struggled for form and goals for the most part this season. Scunthorpe had won four league games and scored just thirteen goals with five having come in their previous […]
As much as we have all tried to make the best of it, consoling ourselves that we are at least able to get our football fix after so long away, even if it is on TV with the only atmosphere the piped-in crowd noise that at best makes it sound like something approaching the real […]
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 […]
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 […]
As a result of indulging one of my other great sporting loves and going to Manchester to watch St Helens win the Rugby League Grand Final a couple of weeks back, as well as the way the O’s fixtures fell in October, myself and Mrs. Football Nerd hadn’t been to Brisbane Road for a whole […]
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