football rambles

Lewes FC who I saw a couple of times when they were in the Conference, but have since slipped down to the Ryman League have been hitting the news recently for their innovative posters and it got me thinking about a few other things. The Rooks have captured the headlines and the campaign seems to be working as their attendances have been going up. Not surprisingly really as they seem to have scoured all elements of culture and have had posters that hark back to Roy of the Rovers in the 70's; had a poster that shows Banksy's gay coppers for the clash with Met Police on Valentine's day (an image that seems to be omnipresent in nearby Brighton; and played to propaganda images like Che Guevara and Soviet images, including the one below that was used to advertise a match on mother's day. It has to be said that the posters are great and it's good to see that they have had the desired effect, but I wonder what impact these types of posters can have for other

Tonight Ely were scheduled to play a rescheduled game against Dereham. However, the weather has put pay to that and now the match should go ahead next Tuesday. It's March 19th, what's going on? Matches aren't supposed to be called off at this time of year. Hopefully the weather will improve because there should be 3 games next week at the Unwin with the Robins at home on Tuesday, Good Friday and Easter Monday and hopefully I'll be able to get a cheeky trip in to the Walks for King's Lynn v Mickleover Sports on the Saturday. The weather has really got to change soon, surely?

After picking up a copy of Heroes and Villans at the last Villa game I was at I promised to keep a look at for fanzines when I went to league grounds and as our bus parked up by the lads selling the Leyton Orientear fanzine on Saturday I decided to get a copy. Leyton Orientear is one of the country's longest running fanzines having been first published in 1986. Fanzines seem to have a longer running tradition at clubs where fans have a right to be disgruntled and Leyton Orient definitely fit into that category. In this edition there is an interesting article on Laurie Cunningham, who may have found fame at WBA started his career off at Orient. He was one of the Baggies' players who helped fight against racism in the 1980s and met with an early death in a car crash after moving to Real Madrid. Apart from that there are a few interesting comments on football and its slippery slide as a whole. There is also an article on the proposed move of West Ham to the Olympic Stadi

A few photos from the clash between Leyton Orient and Carlisle United. The teams get ready for kick off. An early attack from Leyton Orient. The early first half attack by Carlisle that saw Orient's Mc.Sweeney head the ball against his own post. Carlisle goalkeeper Mark Gillespie gets given his marching orders. Kevin Lisbie steps up to score the penalty.

Photo of the South Stand located in Buckingham Road before Leyton Orient v Carlisle United. Photo of West Stand located on Oliver Road before the Leyton Orient v Carlisle clash Photo of the North Stand located on Windsor Road before the match. Photo of the East stand, Brisbane Road, as we were sitting in here I had to get this photo from elsewhere. I thought that I'd add it as the stand is on the actual road that the ground is named after and is probably the best stand in the ground.

On Saturday we went to Brisbane Road, courtesy of Sean's football team to see Leyton Orient take on Carlisle United in League 1. Apart from it being a chance to go to another ground it was a game that had everything with plenty of goals and a sending off. It's been a testing few weeks for Orient, who missed out on a trip to Wembley after losing to League 2 side Southend in the Southern Area Final of the JPT and some indifferent form has left them looking like outsiders to reach the play offs, although it's so close in League 1, you never know who will make it. However, it really did look like it was going to be Orient's day as they were at Carlisle from the start and early on Carlisle keeper Mark Gillespie picked up a yellow card for handling the ball out of the box. It was a bit of a stupid thing to do, but the referee saw sense and only gave him a yellow as it wasn't denying Orient anything. Despite Orient's dominance Carlisle had the first chance of t

On Saturday we are going to Brisbane Road to watch Leyton Orient v Carlisle United in League 1, so now seems like a good time for the first club focus in a long time. Orient can chase their history back to a couple of cricket clubs who wanted to play football, namely Glynn Cricket Club in 1881, who later became Eagle Cricket Club in 1886. In 1888 the football team changed its name to Orient at the bequest of a player who worked for the Orient Shipping Line. Their first kit recorded kit was red with a white O on it and was also the kit that they wore when they changed their name to Clapton Orient in 1898. In 1937 the club moved to Leyton. They were financially hit after the war and needed to raise revenues . In 1946 they set up a fighting fund and changed their name to Leyton Orient. Another change was that after years of having predominately red and white shirts they changed their kits to blue and white. In 1962 Orient reached the top flight for the first and one of the few

When it gets to the middle of March you might expect a bit of rain and it might be a bit cold, but you don't expect it to be sub zero Antarctic weather. I've been to games in March that have been freezing in Ukraine and Russia, but really I was expecting the weather to be a bit better at this time of the season. Anyhow, last night Ely took on Mildenhall in a fixture that is traditionally a bank holiday derby, but the fixtures meant a trip from Woodbridge on a Tuesday wouldn't be great for them so the bank holiday Monday fixture was swapped around. Ely got off to a good enough start and put on most of the pressure in the first half, although Hall were quick on the counter attack and broke through the offside trap on several occasions. The visitors broke dangerously for the first real chance of the game in the 8th minute, but in this instance was caught offside. Ely were also causing problems in the opposite end and a power shot from Nick Impey in the 20th minute was defl

Yesterday Ely took on Walsham-le-Willows on a day that almost, but not quite threatened to be Spring like. Ely have been on a bit of a run of late and Walsham at the start of the day were in third and having the kind of season Ely had last time out. It looked like it was going to be a tough game for the Robins and they were pretty much under pressure from the start, Ely had a few chances, but Walsham looked the most dangerous and their impressive striker Ollie Hughes was proving a handful. He came close on 15 minutes, but the visitors finally took the lead on 36 minutes when an attempt at the offside trap by Ely failed miserably. The second half started with Ely looking like getting back into the game, although they seemed to be lacking imagination up front. Therefore when Adam Murray was fouled in the box on 59 minutes it looked like a penalty might offer them their best chance of drawing level. Chadders stepped up to take the penalty, but it rebounded off the post. Fortunately, he

http://grooveshark.com/playlist/February+2013/83692282 February 2013 by jim_bomb on Grooveshark 1 Сплин – Пил-курил Last month I was on a bit of a Russian language blitz, so not surprisingly Сплин, my favourite Russian band were the most played. In this song they talk about drinking and smoking, which is also a good antidote to all of the nonsense the government are sponsoring on the tell lately. 2 Ундервуд – Гагарин, я вас любила A couple of Ukrainian lads making songs that are evocative of the Soviet Union and this one is about Yuri Gagarin and has ice hockey in the video. What more could you want? 3 µ-Ziq – Brace Yourself Jason A nice bit of techno to break up all the Russian language stuff I had on. This is probably my favourite track from this artist. 4 Мумий Тролль – Дельфины I've been playing this song a lot over the last few months by this Vladivostok Brit Pop kind of band. 5 Дети Picasso – Иное вещество Everything that I have read about this Mo