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 […]
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 […]
On Saturday afternoon just before 5pm, I had that increasingly familiar sinking feeling deep down in the pit of my stomach, as Jake Taylor’s curled effort beat the outstretched arm of Brillo and nestled in the top corner it felt like a crushing blow and the end of Orient’s ‘valiant’ (pardon the pun!) effort against […]
