What a mad, mad match.

We played Leyton Orient on Saturday knowing a win would give us a small chance to still get into the play-offs.

More than 1,200 U’s fans made their way to East London, with the majority leaving around 9am due to railway engineering works.

After spending a couple of hours travelling, we arrived to the ground to see a large group of Orient fans protesting against their owner, Francesco Becchetti.

Three years ago they were one game away from the Championship. Last week they were relegated out of the Football League. It has been a very sad few years for the club.

As the game begun, the U’s immediately controlled things.

This soon showed as Tarique Fosu’s headed effort threw us into the lead. What made it even better was that other results elsewhere were going our way.

During the second half however, an unexpected “worldy” by Semedo meant we were 30 minutes from missing out on the play-offs. Soon we were 20 minutes from missing out, then 15. Time was running out.

After 78 minutes had gone, Fosu was able to steal the ball from the Orient defence and set up Porter to fire us back into the lead.

And just two minutes later, Macauley Bonne beat the last defender and produced a shot that beat the opposition keeper. We were then ten minutes from having everything to play for on Saturday.

After 84 minutes, the Orient fans restarted their protest, this time inside the ground. It was a weird sight but the fans were able to unite.

Hundreds of fans singing “stand up if you hate Southend” must have been the highlight.

It took more than an hour of waiting for the game to eventually be called off.

While on the way home, we learnt that the game was to continue behind closed doors. What a weird decision.

We have it all to play for on Saturday.

The U’s need to win, of course, and we are relying on Stevenage, Blackpool and Carlisle to drop points.

If two of them do, we need to better Cambridge’s scoreline when they play at Wycombe. If they get four, goals we need five!

It sounds unlikely but it is still possible. Let’s do this!