After the O’s stunning bounce back to league form with the brilliant 5-0 win over Hartlepool, the fixture list dictated that it would be a brief cup sojourn for the O’s before we head off to Rochdale on our league travels once again. Much has been written and spoken about how the FA Cup has […]
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 […]
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 […]
In many ways it is difficult to know how to sum up Orient’s last two games. On the face of it two cup defeats in the space of four days should be grounds for disappointment, certainly if you read any of the fan pages on social media you might think the correct response is anger […]
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 […]
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