Michael Craig

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17 Edition

The Leyton Orient Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match23 Nov 2026

Leyton Orient refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 31 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Michael Craig says Leyton Orient went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Leyton Orient

Miguel Jacquet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Looking ahead23 Nov 2026

The big one: Barnsley come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Leyton Orient will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Leyton Orient keep their word to Gonçalo Franco

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Leyton Orient

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rarmani Edmonds-Green was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Leyton Orient are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” George Clark chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Leyton Orient pick somebody else ahead of Miguel Ángel Brau

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

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16 Edition

The Leyton Orient Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Leyton Orient training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Franco 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Isaac Hayden 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Jakke Van Britsom

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tobi Oluwayemi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobi Oluwayemi and Leyton Orient agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Jakke Van Britsom has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Leyton Orient will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

A reunion for Aaron Connolly

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Luton Town in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

When it matters, Diallang Jaiyesimi plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Michael Craig 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes Tyreeq Bakinson a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Leyton Orient. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

10 Edition

The Leyton Orient Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match3 Oct 2026

Leyton Orient make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Leyton Orient have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Sammy Braybrooke is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Belts tighten at Leyton Orient

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Gonçalo Franco 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Leyton Orient

Miguel Jacquet and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match3 Oct 2026

Leyton Orient find a way past Burton Albion

Burton Albion made Leyton Orient work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Idris El Mizouni at his very best

Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leyton Orient.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Gonçalo Franco named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Gonçalo Franco is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

George Clark: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief