Len Cheesewright

[MayIPooOnYourKnee]

The Steve Foster on steroids of his day. He was chief scout under Tommy Taylor when we had 40 odd players in a squad. Can only presume he helped bring in players like Sasha Opinel, Emmanuel Vassuer, Nicolas Forge. But for every Gavin Holligan there was a Ahmet Brkovic. Every Scott Oakes there was a Wim Walschaerts.

Great man, great scout.great name.

[Loyal_Supporter]

The Steve Foster on steroids of his day. He was chief scout under Tommy Taylor when we had 40 odd players in a squad. Can only presume he helped bring in players like Sasha Opinel, Emmanuel Vassuer, Nicolas Forge. But for every Gavin Holligan there was a Ahmet Brkovic. Every Scott Oakes there was a Wim Walschaerts.

Great man, great scout.great name.

Did not know much about him but went to his testomonial game in 02/03 pre season against West Ham.

[oriboy]

Len was my wifes Nan and Grandad's next door neighbour in Stratford.

[Bergen]

His biggest single payment was £300 from Spurs when Campbell signed as an apprentice. Cheesewright had three spells with Orient and 12 years with Spurs.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/a-tale ... 17002.html

[Omygawd]

Part of the Cheesewright family who played for Leytonstone in the 1960' and early 70"s. Talented footballing family.

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The Steve Foster on steroids of his day. He was chief scout under Tommy Taylor when we had 40 odd players in a squad. Can only presume he helped bring in players like Sasha Opinel, Emmanuel Vassuer, Nicolas Forge. But for every Gavin Holligan there was a Ahmet Brkovic. Every Scott Oakes there was a Wim Walschaerts.

Great man, great scout.great name.

Not to mention he brought in Ledley King as a kid. Who left us to go to Spurs....for nothing.

By coincidence with your post I was at Braintree vs Bishops Stortford on Saturday, bloody awful game that Braintree sneaked due to a scrappy early goal. I sat in the stand and about 10 minutes before kick off a guy came and asked if the seat next to me was free - it was . He was scouting for Ipswich and asked me if Braintree were at full strength said I wasn't too sure as I normally go to the O's. He said Oh OK that's my team all our family are O's. We then had 2 hours of mainly Orient related chat, he was an apprentice at the O's in the 1970's but never got any further but has worked at a lot of clubs as a coach and it became obvious that was the case as we chatted as he knew a lot of the staff who were there at the O's at that time and afterwards and did some coaching for Patsy Holland at Spurs, we had a chat about Len Cheesewright who he said was a really nice bloke and highly thought of and brought a lot of really good young players into the O's

The scout was a really nice bloke and chatting with him made the time pass a lot quicker as the game was really grim.

[CEB2ElectricBoogaloo]

It’s such a great proper football name.
Reminds me of Champ Man 01/02, too

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The Steve Foster on steroids of his day. He was chief scout under Tommy Taylor when we had 40 odd players in a squad. Can only presume he helped bring in players like Sasha Opinel, Emmanuel Vassuer, Nicolas Forge. But for every Gavin Holligan there was a Ahmet Brkovic. Every Scott Oakes there was a Wim Walschaerts.

Great man, great scout.great name.

Not to mention he brought in Ledley King as a kid. Who left us to go to Spurs....for nothing.

By coincidence with your post I was at Braintree vs Bishops Stortford on Saturday, bloody awful game that Braintree sneaked due to a scrappy early goal. I sat in the stand and about 10 minutes before kick off a guy came and asked if the seat next to me was free - it was . He was scouting for Ipswich and asked me if Braintree were at full strength said I wasn't too sure as I normally go to the O's. He said Oh OK that's my team all our family are O's. We then had 2 hours of mainly Orient related chat, he was an apprentice at the O's in the 1970's but never got any further but has worked at a lot of clubs as a coach and it became obvious that was the case as we chatted as he knew a lot of the staff who were there at the O's at that time and afterwards and did some coaching for Patsy Holland at Spurs, we had a chat about Len Cheesewright who he said was a really nice bloke and highly thought of and brought a lot of really good young players into the O's

The scout was a really nice bloke and chatting with him made the time pass a lot quicker as the game was really grim.

They were down to the bare bones, think they only had 2 on the bench.

Didn’t realise until just now that Steve Castle was now manager at Bishops Stortford.

[CEB2ElectricBoogaloo]

Just occurred to me that there’s Orient related names that’d reflect what the world would be like if Essex decided to colonise the medieval world - Steve Castle, Keith Fortt. Can anyone think of others?

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The Steve Foster on steroids of his day. He was chief scout under Tommy Taylor when we had 40 odd players in a squad. Can only presume he helped bring in players like Sasha Opinel, Emmanuel Vassuer, Nicolas Forge. But for every Gavin Holligan there was a Ahmet Brkovic. Every Scott Oakes there was a Wim Walschaerts.

Great man, great scout.great name.

Not to mention he brought in Ledley King as a kid. Who left us to go to Spurs....for nothing.

By coincidence with your post I was at Braintree vs Bishops Stortford on Saturday, bloody awful game that Braintree sneaked due to a scrappy early goal. I sat in the stand and about 10 minutes before kick off a guy came and asked if the seat next to me was free - it was . He was scouting for Ipswich and asked me if Braintree were at full strength said I wasn't too sure as I normally go to the O's. He said Oh OK that's my team all our family are O's. We then had 2 hours of mainly Orient related chat, he was an apprentice at the O's in the 1970's but never got any further but has worked at a lot of clubs as a coach and it became obvious that was the case as we chatted as he knew a lot of the staff who were there at the O's at that time and afterwards and did some coaching for Patsy Holland at Spurs, we had a chat about Len Cheesewright who he said was a really nice bloke and highly thought of and brought a lot of really good young players into the O's

The scout was a really nice bloke and chatting with him made the time pass a lot quicker as the game was really grim.

They were down to the bare bones, think they only had 2 on the bench.

Didn’t realise until just now that Steve Castle was now manager at Bishops Stortford.

Braintree ended up with 3 on the bench they included the goalkeeping coach Michael Brothers - Yep good move for Castle as Stortford are potentially a bigger club than Royston. They were good defensively but poor up front but even at Midland South level they had one player on International duty!
I would back Castle to get them up in the next couple of seasons.

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Barry Urn

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Not to mention he brought in Ledley King as a kid. Who left us to go to Spurs....for nothing.

By coincidence with your post I was at Braintree vs Bishops Stortford on Saturday, bloody awful game that Braintree sneaked due to a scrappy early goal. I sat in the stand and about 10 minutes before kick off a guy came and asked if the seat next to me was free - it was . He was scouting for Ipswich and asked me if Braintree were at full strength said I wasn't too sure as I normally go to the O's. He said Oh OK that's my team all our family are O's. We then had 2 hours of mainly Orient related chat, he was an apprentice at the O's in the 1970's but never got any further but has worked at a lot of clubs as a coach and it became obvious that was the case as we chatted as he knew a lot of the staff who were there at the O's at that time and afterwards and did some coaching for Patsy Holland at Spurs, we had a chat about Len Cheesewright who he said was a really nice bloke and highly thought of and brought a lot of really good young players into the O's

The scout was a really nice bloke and chatting with him made the time pass a lot quicker as the game was really grim.

They were down to the bare bones, think they only had 2 on the bench.

Didn’t realise until just now that Steve Castle was now manager at Bishops Stortford.

Braintree ended up with 3 on the bench they included the goalkeeping coach Michael Brothers - Yep good move for Castle as Stortford are potentially a bigger club than Royston. They were good defensively but poor up front but even at Midland South level they had one player on International duty!
I would back Castle to get them up in the next couple of seasons.

Not sure how old they were but - assuming they’re young enough - thought their 7 had a bit of edge about him and liked the 10 too although needs to beef up a touch.

Dont know when he left Royston but Pizzaman was at Sudbury last season for a bit.