Well doesn’t that feel a whole lot better! While it’s still very early days in the 2023/24 season, Orient’s 2-0 win over Cambridge United last Saturday felt more important than simply securing our first win and first three points of the fledgling campaign. While I wasn’t necessarily worried per se about how we were adjusting […]
In stories that seem to be becoming increasingly frequent during these financially bleak times for society and of course football, we have had yet another story about the potential advent of a European Super League. This one was revealed by the Times a couple of weeks back and involves a group of fifteen founder member […]
On Monday a group of the most influential Arsenal-focused supporter organisations, blogs, and fanzines issued a joint statement damming Stan Kroenke’s “passive ownership” and his lack of ambition, purpose and direction for the club. Since the statement’s issue and associated social media campaign, Arsenal fans in their thousands have been signing the letter/petition in agreement […]
I don’t recall ever seeing anything like it, not even at lower levels of competition, let alone in a televised Wembley final. Deep into extra time of Sunday’s League Cup Final under-fire Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri, having seen his goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga twice go down with cramp, opted to replace him with sub keeper Willy […]
Periodically a story breaks in both the football-focused and news media alerting us to the desire of Europe’s elite clubs to break away from their own domestic leagues and to form a European Super League. This time it was German news magazine Der Spiegel that ran a story alleging that seven of Europe’s top clubs […]
The opening week of the football season always feels like normality is being restored for us football obsessives. Everything feels fresh and hope abounds for our teams’ prospects for the campaign ahead. Mrs Football Nerd’s and my journey got off to a relatively early start thanks to our continuing dedication to the Leyton Orient cause: […]
Without actually planning it in any way, I found myself heading to the London Stadium yesterday evening for West Ham’s penultimate home fixture of what has been a relatively tempestuous season for Hammers fans. I have visited the stadium on several occasions previously for the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012 for which it was originally […]
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