As football fans we’ve all done that mental management of expectations during the course of a match, a run of games or even over an entire season. Where we try to convince ourselves that: conceding a goal, drawing a match, losing one even, doesn’t necessarily mean the end of our chances of winning the match, […]
Interlull Tedium So here we are in the deepest darkest depths of another Interlull (© Arseblog), after the relative excitement generated by the fledgling Nations League, this one sees a return to the overwhelming tedium of qualification for Euro 2020. Back in 2016 when the Euros expanded to 24 teams, it was suggested that the […]
After two vital away wins in four days at Havant & Waterlooville and Barrow, Orient returned home for a potentially pivotal clash with top of the table Wrexham last Saturday. Anyone familiar with the O’s track record in live TV matches will appreciate that confidence was far from high amongst the Orient faithful going into […]
In what is an absolutely pivotal run of three games in a week, Orient are over the first two hurdles and just about continue to hold their fate in their own hands. Going into these games having won just one of their previous five league games since the turn of the year, it was absolutely […]
While the jury may remain out on whether it is a good or a bad thing (https://football-nerd.org/2019/02/06/a-heavily-rotated-orient-do-just-enough-in-the-fa-trophy/), Orient took a step closer to Wembley and a potential FA Trophy Final appearance with a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over holders Brackley Town. Their ‘reward’ is a two-leg semi-final against the might of AFC Telford United of the […]
That wasn’t supposed to be how it went! We did our bit: wore my now ‘lucky’ white and red Sambas? Check! Had a couple of pints and chips with beer cheese sauce in the Star? Check! Walked through Coronation Gardens with the missus rubbing the ball on the Laurie Cunningham statue for good luck? Check! […]
On the face of it a draw away at mid-table Hartlepool is a creditable result, but such is the nature of the arm wrestle at the top of the National League, that any dropped points whatsoever spark anxious scanning of the table and hasty calculations to try to understand the implications. It had all got […]
One of the unexpected factors of being exiled outside the Football League is entry into the FA Trophy, basically the non-league equivalent of the League Cup which features a total of 295 teams drawn from steps 1 to 4 of the English football pyramid. Given entry at the First Round Proper, the teams from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
football nerd 