I don’t know about you, but I could really get used to this: another match, another win and Orient stay top of the table for the second week in succession. Thanks to our old friends Salford beating Stevenage, we now even have a lead at the summit, albeit just the one point over Barrow. Once […]
I had intended to post last week considering whether the defeat at home to Crawley could be consigned to just being a bad day at the office, or whether we should start to worry about our hopes for the season. However, my birthday and associated trip to Merseyside for the visit to Prenton Park meant […]
In last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Orient given a reality check at Ice Station Sixfields) I aired my growing concern that Orient’s stuttering form, culminating in the defeat at arctic-like Northampton, could mean that they started to fall further off the promotion race pace. For a while now I have felt that apart from […]
After Saturday’s late home defeat at the hands of Grimsby Town, it is probably fair to say that there was growing unrest among the Orient faithful, certainly if you perused any of the associated social media pages there was a feeling that the O’s had gone off track thanks in no small part to the […]
So here we are then, after a hiatus of just over three (very long!) months, assuming nothing goes dramatically wrong between now and 6pm this evening when Aston Villa are due to get the Premier League back underway with their clash with Sheffield United, English football is back. It will still be football but based […]
Perhaps one of the more disturbing facets of being a football obsessive is the inability to be able to say no to going to a match, any match. So it was to prove for me once again last week. While the missus and I were on our recent holiday in Istanbul, my Tranmere Rovers diehard […]
After three arduous seasons in exile, on Saturday afternoon at Wembley my hometown club Tranmere Rovers, to the immense relief of their long-suffering supporters reclaimed their place in the Football League. But of course they were never going to do it the easy way! Rovers lost their league status in 2015 after back-to-back relegations that […]
As I described on these pages back in the autumn (https://football-nerd.org/2017/10/06/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-a-dilemma-of-hopelessness-and-questioned-loyalty/), the increasing obsession brought about by Mrs Football Nerd and my continued attendance at Leyton Orient has built a major football-supporting dilemma for me. With Orient having been relegated out of the League for the first time in 112 years at the end of […]
It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this, I was never supposed to care, it was supposed to just be something to do to kill the time when Arsenal weren’t playing; but increasingly I have found myself being drawn into following Leyton Orient. This stark realisation hit me as Mrs Football Nerd and I walked […]
A Tranmere Rovers fan, a Crystal Palace fan, a Manchester City fan and an Arsenal fan are on a train to Eastleigh; this isn’t the introduction to a new modern variation of the old jokes based on national stereotype, but a travelling party to a match in the fifth tier of the English football pyramid. […]
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