Orient experiences

[GibbO]

I’d like to know what your quintessential sensory experiences are on an Orient Matchday.

I’ll start:

PAAAAAAAANDEMONIUM Orient fanzine, one paaand.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

When I first went when I was about 6 or something the smell of that burger place at the top of the west stand was the first thing that hit me. Still notice that smell every time I go

[Rich Tea Wellin]

And hi Mat

[Hoover Attack]

When I first went when I was about 6 or something the smell of that burger place at the top of the west stand was the first thing that hit me. Still notice that smell every time I go

That smell was the fat fryer.

[GibbO]

And hi Mat

Eff OFF

[Story of O]

Tijuana Taxi. Almost every present

[Chelmsford Swimmer]

I miss the monkey nut man.

[Chicken Dhansak]

Didn't they used to have people walking among the crowd selling match programmes back then?

[GibbO]

Didn't they used to have people walking among the crowd selling match programmes back then?

Remember a bloke called Jim, always in shorts with a big grin selling programs.

[The Mindsweep]

"Roasted Chesnuts"

[Orient_Man_And_Boy]

Early 80s?

Ray ‘the rake’ / ‘the roller’, had to replace the north west corner flag during the game. He duly sped across the pitch from the old tunnel in the east stand. But, having replaced the flag, he then proceeded to run back ACROSS the pitch with the broken flag.
The look on the Ref’s face was a picture.

[Real Al]

People bringing orange crates to stand on.

Half-time scores where the electronic advertising boards are now.

Referees and police sergeants older than me.

And, if it was the 70's... 0-0 draws

[The Great RaymondO]

A fella who unmistakably calls out (used to be south stand, but more recently in the north)...'get it in the onion baaaagggggg' with a very distinctive and east-end market trader type magical tone. Long may you continue sir, always make me smile

[Stamford O]

Evening matches in late 60s when I was young there always seemed to be someone lighting up a ciggy

[Cheshunto]

May’72, played Birmingham who needed the win to go up to the 1st Division
Nothing on the game for us
If Birmingham failed to win then Millwall got promoted instead, but they did win 0-1
Cue absolute carnage on the terraces as Birmingham, Millwall fans and apparently some ICF from West Ham were fighting each other, and then to top it all there was a bomb scare in the main stand, absolute mayhem.

[Urbane Vancelo]

Didn't they used to have people walking among the crowd selling match programmes back then?

Remember a bloke called Jim, always in shorts with a big grin selling programs.

He had mad varicose veins. I couldn't stop staring.

[oriboy]

Didn't they used to have people walking among the crowd selling match programmes back then?

Remember a bloke called Jim, always in shorts with a big grin selling programs.

He had mad varicose veins. I couldn't stop staring.

I believe the chap your talking about travelled all the way from Brighton each game to sell programmes/watch The Os

[The Reverend]

I’d like to know what your quintessential sensory experiences are on an Orient Matchday.

I’ll start:

PAAAAAAAANDEMONIUM Orient fanzine, one paaand.

Isn’t that the same bloke who got arrested for abusing a Colchester United player a few years back?

[BIGRON]

I miss the monkey nut man.

Peanuts.....tanner a bag was his call on the south terrace if I recall correctly

[GibbO]

I’d like to know what your quintessential sensory experiences are on an Orient Matchday.

I’ll start:

PAAAAAAAANDEMONIUM Orient fanzine, one paaand.

Isn’t that the same bloke who got arrested for abusing a Colchester United player a few years back?

Seems a strange joyful experience to list but I’m not here to judge.

[LPE]

Night matches and not walking through Coronation Gardens, turning from Buckingham Road into Brisbane Road, seeing the lights and hearing London Calling playing on the tannoy.

[gshaw]

That London Calling song being played pre match through the decrepit PA system

[The Reverend]

I’d like to know what your quintessential sensory experiences are on an Orient Matchday.

I’ll start:

PAAAAAAAANDEMONIUM Orient fanzine, one paaand.

Isn’t that the same bloke who got arrested for abusing a Colchester United player a few years back?

Seems a strange joyful experience to list but I’m not here to judge.

I didn’t say that a bloke getting arrested on suspicion of racially abusing a Colchester United player was a “joyful experience”, I was merely checking if we were thinking about the same person. I believe we are.

[EliotNes]

Orient vs Chelsea in the Cup in 1972. That match. After Barrie Fairbrother scored our third, the Chelsea fans in the West Side started invading the pitch to try and get the match abandoned. The police were literally picking them up and throwing back over the wall into the West Stand. My dad and I were pinned against the retaining wall. It's the only time in my years of supporting the Os that I've been scared at a match at Brizzie Road.

[Razzmachaz]

Raymond the Roller and the smell of burgers, pipe and cigarette smoke in the old West Stand.