The Leyton Orient Chronicle
Squad27 Aug 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexey Chernodarov
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leyton Orient lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Alexey Tumanov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leyton Orient have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match25 Aug 2035
The wait goes on for Leyton Orient
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match25 Aug 2035
The goals have deserted Leyton Orient
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Leyton Orient can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Idris El Mizouni falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Kristi Montgomery in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leyton Orient this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match25 Aug 2035
Leeds United take the points off Leyton Orient
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom27 Aug 2035
Leyton Orient are $74.1M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Matty Warhurst runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market The Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan story refuses to die
- Market Leyton Orient shop where it costs nothing
- Market David Crespo placed on the list