Sid Bishop

[cymruO]

Condolences to you and your family. Especially remembering you as these extraordinary times are calling for you to say your goodbyes in out of the usual and very stressful ways.

[Sid Bishop]

Good to hear your keeping well, Sid.

Condolences to Cheshunto. It’s gonna be hard not giving family & close friends a “proper” send-off at the mo.

Thanks and also hope that you and friends and family are also keeping well at this time of crisis.

[Redcard]

So sorry for your sad loss chesunto , stay safe.

[A Pedant]

Isn’t he a former player ??

Sid Bishop the boarder is not Sid Bishop the ex-Orient player.

[Lovejoy]

Sid Bishop the player used to go into the old supporters club on match days with his daughter. He is a great bloke, mad as a box of frogs and would chat to everyone.

[Sid Bishop]

Isn’t he a former player ??

Sid Bishop the boarder is not Sid Bishop the ex-Orient player.

Quite correct.
Sid Bishop was a wonderful Centre half for many years in the Leyton Orient team of the mid to late 1950s to the mid 1960s. I first saw him play for the Os as a schoolboy taken to the matches by my dad in the famous 1961–62 team that gained promotion to Division One ( the then top league ) before the Premier League came into being in the early 1990s. Sid was a really great centre half and at one time Bill Shankly tried to sign Sid for Liverpool but Sid turned the move down. So when I joined this forum I decided to go under one my boyhood footballing heroes names and chose ''Sid Bishop'' If nothing else, using his name has kept his memory alive as to what an extraordinary player he was and also perhaps given an insight to younger members of ''Sid'' and also of the many other great players who have turned out for the Os in the past. I like many others who saw the wonderful promotion team of 1961-62 can always remember the famous halfback line of Lucas, Bishop, Lea, their names just trip off the tongue and are forever ingrained in my memories and the the same goes I am sure for the many other Os supporters who saw those great players of that era play together.

Sid Bishop (footballer, born 1934)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Bisho ... born_1934)
Sidney Harold Richard Bishop (born 8 April 1934 in Tooting, London) is an English former footballer who played as a defender, mainly for Leyton Orient. He is considered one of the best defenders in the history of the East London club.

[i8ubutler]

Agreed Sid.
He was an absolutely outstanding centre half.
You must be about the same vintage as me as my Dad started taking me to watch the O's at that time.
I remember the final match of the season when we beat Bury 2 - 0 (Malcolm Graham 2) to clinch promotion.

[ContrifibulatoryFred]

Late to the party but sorry to learn about CheshuntO's father passing away

[Cheshunto]

Late to the party but sorry to learn about CheshuntO's father passing away

Thanks Fred, shocking times we are living in just now, just found out that a neighbour also died last week from CV in Harlow hospital having gone in to have his leg amputated.
Football and Orient seem further from my thoughts than ever before.
Keep safe everyone.

[Sid Bishop]

Agreed Sid.
He was an absolutely outstanding centre half.
You must be about the same vintage as me as my Dad started taking me to watch the O's at that time.
I remember the final match of the season when we beat Bury 2 - 0 (Malcolm Graham 2) to clinch promotion.

Nice video, I have watched that a few times before on YouTube !
I am 72 years old now, will be 73 years old in late May this year, I am a Gemini !
I must have been 13 years old when I first started going to watch professional football. First matches I went to see were when a friend of my brother took me and his kid brother to watch the Spurs a few times at the start of the 1961-62 season. Jimmy Greaves had just joined them and the whole Spurs team were amazing to watch, especially Greaves, in his pomp, best striker I have ever seen. Then my dad ( a long time follower/supporter of the Os ) whisked me off to Brisbane road, most likely because they were having a good season and dad and I ended up watching most of the remaining home games in that season and YES I saw the last game of the season, the 2-0 win against Bury which saw us gain promotion to Division one and yes........ I remember joining many others by running on the pitch at the end of the game !

[Redcard]

It was 20 odd games before a centre forward scored against us in Our promotion year , in the days when there was one central defender and he man marked the centre forward .
I have seen some excellent centre halves play for the orient including Webb, went, Taylor, roader , hoadley but none of them came close to Sid bishop.
Had he taken the several opportunities to join a top flight club he would definitely have played for England.