Tag: orient

  • This blog is five years old.

    I started blogging on 25 october 2006, with a stupid video of a hamster. Since that day I have moved home 4 times, changed jobs 4 times,  got engaged, got married, brought a flat,  then a cat, then a house in Sussex I’ve travelled to Switzerland,  Italy,  France,  Belgium, and Brazil. I’ve seen friends and family marry in…

  • Leyton Orient vs Arsenal, 32 years later

    To celebrate Orient’s cup tie against Arsenal in the Fith Round of the FA cup, here’s a piece by the Times from the last time they met in 1978, where they were defeated 3-0. Malcolm Macdonald scored twice, both times aided by a wicked deflection, before Graham Rix completed the scoring midway through the second half. Arsenal…