The Leyton Orientear

09/12/2024

Apparently Christmas actually has its roots in religion! Who knew? If you want to find out more, Omar has organised a little event at Brisbane Road on Wednesday.

08/12/2024

NEW ON OUR SUBSTACK

A real blast from the past this one: a look back to 1976, and a feature in Time Out magazine gets close to some of the main characters running the Club at that time.

“This Club couldn’t exist without voluntary labour” said George Petchey, and it’s incredible to see how little has changed in nearly half a century since…

Read on: https://theleytonorientear.substack.com/p/orient-exposed

06/12/2024

From the start of this season until the end of the year, Orient will only have had three home league matches that kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday...

The East Stand at Brisbane Road, captured by Martin Belam in 2005. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. Source: Wikimedia Commons. “It’s like music. You can’t dance …

02/12/2024

Sharing this deeply wholesome content because... why not? It's not like we have a great 3rd round game or a Saturday trip to Birmingham to look forward to. But we'll always have Christmas.

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25/11/2024

If you missed last week's official Fans' Forum, if you're more of a reader than a watcher, or if you just fancy recapping on all the key points without slogging through the whole recording, then we have you covered.

And don't forget to subscribe to our new blog, where we'll continue to share things like this that come up between editions of the mag, as well as classics from the archive and the odd exclusive...

With Orient's forward momentum stalled on and off the pitch, the Club convened another Fans' Forum to ventilate some of the discontent. And we had two of our best people there...

20/11/2024

Local landlord reacts to the news that some of his tenants are in dispute with their neighbours...

14/11/2024

Roy is appearing at Leyton Orient Supporters Club next Friday (22nd) to talk about his time at and he has some great stories to tell. It’s a free event (630 doors, 730 start) so please come along…

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/share/12AqCAquHa3/?mibextid=9l3rBW

Our feature from last season 👇

Our feature on Orient's leading goalscorer from the 67/8 season, first published in 293 (April 2024).

11/11/2024

For Remembrance Day - our interview with Steve Jenkins and Peter Kitchen last year about their work to commemorate the great tragedy of the Somme. Available to read for free on our new Substack.

Please subscribe, as we'll be adding more content (old and new) over the coming weeks...

Peter Kitchen and Steve Jenkins tell us about their work in restoring the tragedy of the Somme to the history of Leyton Orient (this interview was originally published in #290 in November 2023)

09/11/2024

This is based on a painting called “Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes” by Giovanni Lanfranco.

The story it refers to is better known as the “Feeding of the 4,000”. A copy of the painting hangs in the Leyton Orient Boardroom where it is called “Not Feeding The 7,682”

07/11/2024

FRIDAY 22ND NOVEMBER

Please come along to Leyton Orient Supporters Club for an evening with Roy Massey, Orient's leading scorer from the 1967/68 season and all round good egg.

After retiring prematurely through injury, Roy went on to have an incredible career as an Academy coach, eventually winding up at Arsenal, where he helped to develop household names like Bukayo Saka, Alex Iwobi, Harry Kane, Andros Townsend, Jack Wilshere... and many others.

Roy's grandfather won the FA Cup with Sheffield Wednesday back in 1896, and Roy also played alongside Graham Taylor and Howard Wilkinson for England Schoolboys, so you can bet he will have some great stories to tell.

It's a free event, and doors will be at 630 for a 730 start, and there will be copies of his book available discounted from the price you see online: https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/roy-massey

31/10/2024

One of many great articles in the current Ear, available again at Borehamwood on Sunday, or via www.leytonorientear.com

https://leytonlaureate.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/stephanie-mccaffrey-leyton-orient-women-takeover-a-test-case-for-the-clubs-eventual-sale/

[This piece first appeared in Orientear fanzine Issue 295 (still available for sale!) and has been lightly updated] The seventh tier of English football is not a level Stephanie McCaffrey is accust…

23/10/2024

Attention: Issue 295 of the Leyton Orientear hit the streets of Leyton last night and the substantial sale of this edition matched the solid O's performance. For those of you that missed us at the ground there is good news. You can order the current issue from the link that resides on our web page or just email us at [email protected]

Subscriptions up until the end of the current season are also available.

For those travelling to Wycombe a limited amount of copies will (hopefully) be available in and around the away end at half time.

Up the O's

www.leytonorientear.com

22/10/2024

LIFE COMES AT YOU FAST!

And much faster than another 3pm Saturday kick off at Brisbane Road.

But we can adapt. We can publish on a Tuesday, and be available in all the usual places, with all the usual quality and insight. So check out #295 for not one, not two, but three exclusive interviews, some exclusive survey analysis on the state of the game (tl;dr ticket prices are the number one concern of football fans all around the country), and all kinds of other goodies.

Available from Leyton Orient Supporters Club, Dreamhouse Records, in and around the ground tonight, and www.leytonorientear.com

11/10/2024

Looks like things might be moving more quickly than we expected...

The O's, who sit 19th in League One, are working with advisers from Oakvale Capital to raise new funding, Sky News learns.

29/09/2024

Excellent piece here from an up and coming local journalist, who spoke to a few Orient fans about the Club’s insatiable hunger for money…

Orient’s fixture against Peterborough on Tuesday night had one of the lowest attendances of recent years There’s something unmistakably nostalgic about a matchday at Leyton Orient. In East Lo…

05/09/2024

Brentford tickets on sale from 2pm today. Demand is expected to be very high…