football rambles

Here is the programme from yesterday's game.

Yesterday we went on our annual trip to Orient and as usual it was an entertaining enough encounter. At the start of the day Orient were top of League 1 and Colchester were down in 17th, with some relegation worries, but probably not enough to cause real anguish. They have a few games in hand, which may come in handy, but could also lead to a fixture jam as the season comes towards a close. Despite being top Orient have had a mixed bag of results late and it was Colchester who, with a decent away support, seemed most keen on finding the back of the net, with both Jabo Ibhere and Freddie Sears coming close. It was Orient who opened the scoring with David Mooney scoring a superb volley on 20 minutes. For the rest of the half Colchester continued to attack and Orient tried to hit them on the counter attack, but at the break the score remained 1-0 to the home side. Colchester continued the second half in good form as they pressed for an equaliser, but Eldin Jankupovic was in fine for...