Art of the deal: How Leyton Orient can buy and sell its way to the top

[This piece first ran in Orientear issue 293 and has been lightly updated and expanded with a Q&A with Leyton Orient Chief Operations Officer Steve Tait] Leyton Orient sold Hector Kyprianou to Petersborough United in the summer of 2022 for a reported transfer fee of more than £400,000. Seen by many at the time as …

Full stadium, full heart: David Dodd, doyen of Leyton Orient Supporters Club

[This piece first ran in Orientear issue 291 in January and has been lightly updated.] Like many of the Leyton Orient Supporters Club volunteers, David Dodd turns up for matchdays around 10 am to start preparing the bar for the pre-game crowd, and well after the final ale is poured and the last fans head …

Scouting for footballers: An interview with Leyton Orient’s recruitment team

We are in the depths of the January transfer window, but action has been relatively slow across the EFL and Leyton Orient are yet to announce any signings. Manager Richie Wellens has spoken of his desire to add a winger and perhaps a striker to fortify the attack, while rumours are swirling around the future …

What’s cooking at Leyton Orient? First team chef Adam Dudley spills the beans

These are dark times for Leyton Orient, and not just because we lose all of our daylight at 4 pm this time of year. The O's haven't won a league match in almost two months, their set pieces look worse and worse by the week, and the squad is riddled with injuries and low on …

INTERVIEW: LOFC Women on the rise after title campaign, says programme chief Worsfold

These are exciting times for the Leyton Orient women's side -- an exemplary example of grassroots football in action, two years after a somewhat turbulent reset. The squad are coming off a Greater London Women's Football League Division 1 North title, achieved with a stellar 15-1-0 record (the one draw resulting partially from a dubious …

Secrets of the football pitch, with Leyton Orient head groundskeeper Colin James

Percy Pigs from M&S are 3% concentrated fruit juice, which makes them totally healthy and a great nutritional addition to your diet. In a similar vein, Leyton Orient's lush new pitch contains about 5% artificial grass, a feature that should be a big improvement over the natural turf that the O's had before at Brisbane …

Talking about the O’s with journalists who write about the O’s

We’ve had the celebrations for promotion and then the league title, the pitch invasions, Wagon Wheel, the trophy ceremony, the promotion party, the EFL Awards and the Star Man Awards, and now all that’s left for Leyton Orient is Monday’s match at Bradford. It’s almost anticlimactic, though not for Bradford, as they are still playing …