Posh Blog

Tuesday's game took us to Leyton Orient which happens to be very near to the site of the 2012 Olympics. This being Britain I didn't think we'd actually have started yet, probably due to the builders being on another tea break but I was pleasantly surprised to see they have already turned a massive area into a building site. For once it looks like we might meet a target on time as there is still 3 years to finish it.

I didn't actually realise when we got to the football stadium, we stopped at a block of flats which I thought was odd until I saw a gap between them that the ground was completely surrounded by flats. Indeed some of the balconies actually faced onto the pitch so you can watch the games from the comfort of your own home. It felt a little strange inside the game as the flats raised higher than the ground itself, it was almost like you were indoors.



For a Tuesday night there was a lot of Posh fans there and since a very low amount of Orient fans turned up we easily were able to outsing them for the majority of the match. We had lot's to sing about too, within 12 minutes we were 2-0 up, Whelpdale with the first and Sergio Torres with the second. It's great to see Torres finally breaking into the team, he's not really had much chance up until now but he's played in two games in a row now and certainly seems to have made an impression on Fergie.

If anyone was going to score for Orient against us though it was Scott McGleish, and he did...twice. He had a spell with us where he didn't score at all but every club he's gone to since he seems to score freely for, and almost always seems to score against us. Notably he scored the winner for Northampton at London Road a few years ago and last year a last minute equaliser for Wycombe to slightly delay our promotion party. His first goal on Tuesday was yet another penalty and his second came when they were 3-1 down after Russell Martin got his first goal for the club as well.



Joe Lewis saved the game for us right at the end, even if it was from himself he was saving us from. A last minute shot for Orient was spilled by Lewis for their striker to head towards goal at point blank range but Lewis managed to pull out a fantastic save to deny them just before the referee blew the final whistle.

The referee himself seemed to be two different people. In the first half he didn't make any notable mistakes, the penalty for Orient was a handball so I can't argue with that and I don't think many other Posh fans would either. However in the second half, him and his linesmen seemed to lose all competency. Orient only scored their second goal when the referee gave a freekick in the opposite direction to the one the linesman who was standing right next to the incident was flagging. The linesmen themselves seemed to be giving phantom offsides for both teams all half which is about the typical level of officiating at this level.

Next Match Attending

Hartlepool v Posh
7/3/09 3pm
Victoria Road