Blogs - East Anglian Daily Times

In the running for player-of-the-season

Posted 1 month ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

IT'S that time of the season again, when thoughts turn to the annual player-of-the-year awards - at least this takes the mind off all those lingering fears of relegation. It's been a strange old campaign, and no one Colchester United player has stood...

Will the U's go down?

Posted 1 month ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

SO we come to the business end of the season, the last month when promotions and relegations will be thrashed out and decided, once and for all. I still think that League One, this year, has been weaker than in previous seasons, especially with the previous...

Woody will strut his stuff in the Championship

Posted 3 months ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

HAVING watched Anthony Wordsworth at close quarters, for most of his still fledgling career, I am confident that the silky midfielder can blossom in the Championship. Only a recent two-match suspension has denied Wordsworth a chance to celebrate his 200th...

My top 10 favourite games as a U's reporter, over the last two decades

Posted 5 months ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

IT is now a fraction over 20 years, since I reported on my first ever Colchester United game for the East Anglian Daily Times and old Green'Un newspapers. The date was precisely Saturday, November 21, 1992, and the match, between Colchester United and...

Attack, attack! Roll on the good times under Joe Dunne

Posted 7 months ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

IT’S still very early days, but it looks as though Colchester United, under new boss Joe Dunne, are going to be no shrinking violets. While you got the feeling that previous manager John Ward’s priority was always to avoid defeat – not...

Falling attendances reflect the hard times

Posted 7 months ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

THESE are hard times at Colchester United, and not just because of the side’s current plight near the foot of the League One table. Results-wise, the U’s are still waiting to celebrate their first win of the season, following seven failed...

Oh, we do miss Odejayi!

Posted 8 months ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

HE may have only scored five goals for the U's last season, and only four of those in the league, but the early signs are that Kayode Odejayi will be sorely missed this campaign. Odejayi's decision to turn down the offer of a new contract, and instead...

Freddie the most exciting arrival since Teddy

Posted 10 months ago by Carl Marston with 1 comments

IT had been a largely depressing summer for U's fans, until the arrival of Freddie Sears - remember, he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy! First we had the departures of Kayode Odejayi and Steven Gillespie, who both decided to drop down a level...

So much rests on what happens to four key U's players

Posted over 1 year ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

COLCHESTER United fans will be sweating over the future of four of their key players this summer. While the bulk of the U’s out of-contract players look like signing new deals, including the likes of Brian Wilson, Matt Heath and Lloyd James, there...

No fall-outs, but a few differences of opinion

Posted over 1 year ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

THE recent stand-off between AFC Bournemouth and the local paper - 'The Bournemouth Daily Echo' - had me thinking about any near fall-outs that I may have experienced over the last 20 years or so. The Daily Echo has won a lot of admirers for the...

Don't tell the wife!

Posted over 1 year ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

I've been playing away from home for two months, but don't tell the wife! In fact, I've forgotten what home comforts are like, since the turn of the year, although this has little to do with me being led astray by some "lady of the night...

Be careful what you wish for

Posted over 1 year ago by Carl Marston with 0 comments

“WARD out, Ward out!” You must be joking. John Ward has done a satisfactory job, as Colchester United boss, and he certainly does NOT deserve to lose his job. The odd chant of “Ward out,” after the recent home games against Scunthorpe...