I don’t really need to introduce Deano. Happy Saturday everybody…

The Oriental Orient made a great start in the first half of the Season. Still in all 3 cups. Mrs Smith has a sneaky feeling that her husband may yet claw his way out this shit pit.

Can the good start be built upon? Let’s find out.

FA Cup 3^rd Round – Huddersfield

Defences on top in the first half. It’s a goal apiece before Luigi found a power up.

Into Round 4 where we will face Barnet or Swindon.

Windscreen Shield Are Quarter Final – Exeter

Exeter get a goal disallowed in the first half. But the Japanese Griffo bags a brace in the second to calm the nerves.

League Cup Quarter Final – Fulham

We’re at full strength. No excuses. It’s Desmond at half time then cometh the hour, cometh the man.  Bjorn is the hero. One more goal from Heidenstrom! Check out ‘The Heidenstrom Song’ on my pinned tweet. He’s Norwegian in that song though, so it’s a little bit out of date. Apologies.

We’ll play Chelsea in the Semi Final. We’ve had it pretty easy until now.

FA Cup 4^th Round – Swindon

Luigi is suspended but we have Fukuda and Griffo

Thanks to Nick Rowe for sending me the OG background pics. It makes all the difference seeing the County Ground being invaded. Tap him up!

I’ve been rejecting bids for our better players. Now there’s serious cash on the table for Koopa.

If I wasn’t in with a shout of the cups I would probably sell and look for someone else. But we got plenty of cash. Plus, these Asian players are only a fiver each.

Same with Bjorn.

Windscreen Shield Area Semi Final – Watford

10-man Watford are brushed aside. It was over after 21 minutes.

League Cup Semi Fina L1 – Chelsea

We’ve knocked out 2 Premier League teams already, can we make it a third?

Hughes gives Chelsea the lead, but Fukuda equalises on the stroke of half time. We’re more than holding our own. Then Dean Smith gets sent off for a deliberate handball in his desperation to win. Bjorn slots into the back 4.

In the end we escape with a 2-1 defeat. It could have been a lot worse.

FA Cup 5^th Round – Sunderland

We knocked them out of the League Cup earlier in the season and they were crying on Netflix. Well, I get my comeuppance as they dominate at Brisbane Lane and injure Fukuda in the process.

We’re out. And the Mackems celebrate in style.

Mrs Smith is gutted. Perhaps a move to Villa will cheer her up?

But he’ll be Japanese forever he doesn’t captain the Orient to some silverware.

Of which there is a realistic chance this season.

League Cup Semi Final L2 – Chelsea (agg 1-2)

We got Fukuda, Koopa and Luigi injured. But we do have an away goal.

Petrescu sees red and gives away a penalty in the first half. Griffo balloons it – the tosser.  Then my ace in the hole Super Mario gets injured. That’s the whole Nintendo three out when we need them most. Winston gives us the lead. And scores another one! We’re going through to the final

Well we were until Flo levels up the tie with 5 minutes to go.

Zola scores in injury time and we’ve got too much to do with no bonus players to help us out. And we’re out.

Disappointed but it’s a very good run to reach the Semi’s in season 1.

Stanic will miss the rest of the season with a torn groin.

There’s only one trophy left to play for now and we’re up against an old pal in the Area Final of the Windscreen Shield.

Windscreen Shield Area Final L1 – Plymouth

Our 4 best players Stanic, Griffo, Fukuda and Di Biagio are out. Luigi is just fit enough for the bench. After taking the piss out of Sunderland, it’s Plymouth who want revenge after I called them semi-professional in a previous blog.

Stalemate at half time, time to risk Luigi. But it ends 0-0. Littlejohn had a chance to win it at the end but I wasn’t worried. I know all about his finishing ability – or lack of.

Leg 2

Griffo is back. Fukuda is 78% and on the bench. Could make all the difference.

Are you fucking kidding me? Can I knock the game off and srestart?

Adrian Littlejohn bags a brace and we’re out.

Fuck this, I’m off for a cry.

Smith-o-Meter

“ADRIAAAAN!!”

Dean Smith is trophyless after one season. He’s staying Japanese at this rate. I hope you can join us next week, when we try and kick more footballs into the goal than our opponents do.

Back you got hit the head. You’ve been in a coma for two years. While you’ve been out of it, I’ve been trying to get buy and sell Asian players trying to unearth some gems. I even convinced the Jaanese to buy a feeder club.