The Easter weekend provided two contrasting performances for the O’s, if not results. Away at Lincoln we largely matched the previously free-scoring Imps and were perhaps unlucky to lose, whereas at home to Peterborough on Monday we were our own worst enemy and essentially gifted The Posh two first half goals from which we were […]
Armed with the advance knowledge that Orient’s game against Exeter had been postponed due to international call-ups, the missus and I wasted no time whatsoever in booking ourselves a long weekend in Barcelona. It was the first place we had been to together on holiday, and a city that we have revisited on several occasions […]
Well that was quite a turn up for the books wasn’t it? To go to Stevenage with a squad depleted by injury, match them physically, frustrate them, and ultimately escape with all three points was not only unexpected but very welcome in the Orient camp. Like most (all?) Orient fans, I am not overly fond […]
It’s been a slightly surreal football-watching week for the missus and me. First we introduced a Norwegian football obsessive associate of ours to the delights of a matchday in E10, and then we were among the reported 205 Orient fans to go to Port Vale in the pouring rain last Tuesday evening. Pleasingly both matches […]
After two and a half seasons (for that is how us hopeless football obsessives measure time!) of dedicated work, I am very pleased to announce that my book detailing my decision to put my ludicrously over-priced Arsenal season ticket on hold and to follow Leyton Orient all over the country, has now finally been published. […]
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