Marked for Dylan Levitt
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Dom Ballard at 21 — 7.95
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dom Ballard did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Leyton Orient training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Morris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
10 new faces, and Leyton Orient are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match16 Sep 2026
2‑3 against Burton Albion, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Leyton Orient
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Leyton Orient are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Stavros Gavriel scored one and made one — 7.95
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.95, and 2 involvements.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Leyton Orient training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Azeem Abdulai is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dylan Levitt asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sam Rak-Sakyi dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match19 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Doncaster Rovers defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Notts County for Azeem Abdulai was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Leyton Orient, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Leyton Orient training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Morris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Dylan Levitt’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leyton Orient.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.81. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dylan Levitt finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Leyton Orient have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Leyton Orient man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Josh Koroma was the best thing in any of them.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Idris El Mizouni commits to Leyton Orient for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Idris El Mizouni was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Leyton Orient have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kaelan Casey 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
John Phillips is 16, and Leyton Orient have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.