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 …

A peak behind the Leyton Orient curtain with a tour of Brisbane Road

Every other Saturday or so (and some Tuesday nights), we are treated to 90 minutes of footballing drama on the stage of Brisbane Road. Sometimes, it's not exactly masterpiece theatre, like Leyton Orient's last home match, a dull 0-0 draw against Port Vale. Other times, it's filled with plot twists galore, like the O's 4-3 …

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 …

In Nigel Travis’ legacy project, Leyton Orient seek new investors to level up

The Americans are coming! The Leyton Orient board are on the lookout for deep-pocketed new investors to turbocharge the football club's growth plans, which definitively include getting the squad promoted to the Championship and building a new stadium, with a music venue, hotel and/our housing attached. And it's more likely than not these new backers …

Hard truths on the balance sheet: what to make of LOFC’s financial statements

Leyton Orient Football Club on 19 January revealed an operating loss of £3.9 million for the 2022-23 season. Lest we forget, that was a year in which the O's won the League Two title and played in front of a regularly sold-out Brisbane Road. That comes out to a sobering £10,685 daily loss, money that …

With Brisbane Road getting tight, Leyton Orient want to size up swiftly

[Note: This is an updated version of a piece that first ran in Orientear fanzine No. 290] Just like Taylor Swift, Leyton Orient have a growing ticketing problem. It is a testament to the club’s marketing prowess that even with a significant hike in ticket prices from last season and a slow start to the …

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 …

Leyton Orient fan Q&A with Nigel Travis and Mark Devlin: A new stadium for the O’s?

At the nearly one-third mark of the League One season, Leyton Orient are sitting comfortably mid-table, with five wins, five draws and five losses. A nice recovery after the brutal start of the season, which you can chalk up to a title hangover, a rough adjustment to promotion, a spate of critical injuries, a difficult …

EFL rules, medical emergencies and what happened Tuesday night at Brisbane Road

First off, my thoughts are with the family and friends of Derek Reynolds, the O's supporter who collapsed at Tuesday night's game at Brisbane Road, and my deepest condolences for what has now sadly been confirmed as his death. The scenes at the match were surreal and distressing. There was chaos and confusion over the …

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 …