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What was your first Orient game?


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Portsmouth 1 v 0 Orient, 20 April 1973
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v Man City, May 1966. A 2-2 draw in Division Two, they got promoted, we got relegated.
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Couldnt tell you .
I was 4 or 5 , 1970 or 71
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Fulham 6 Orient 1

7/5/77
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Orient Punxx wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:55 am Fulham 6 Orient 1

7/5/77
That is Loyalty.right there .
Most would have heeded the warning.

Well done you
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Orient Punxx wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:55 am Fulham 6 Orient 1

7/5/77
We won the second half though!
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23rd November 1988, 2-2 draw at home to Enfield in the FA Cup. Followed up by seeing us get knocked out 0-1 (also at Brisbane Road). Big mistake, we obviously went on to be promoted and I've been stuck with them ever since. Life would have been much easier if I hadn't gone to that game.
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Charlton boxing Day 1964.won 4-2
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February 1960 - v Middlesborough. O's won 5-0. Phil White played a blinder. Remember that Charlton game. The pitch was was frozen and new signing Dave Metchick scored twice.
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Leyton orient 1 Arsenal 2
August 18th 1962
26300 in attendance
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1997 Orient 2-1 Mansfield, was a penalty and a sending off, and remember there being no South stand, just a load of boarding behind the goal, one of the Mansfield defenders sent Carl Griffiths flying into the boarding to
Get sent off and give away the pen! Stood at the front of the east stand. Must of been 8 at the time, never looked back this is my 22nd year of being a season ticket holder 😆
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4 January 1975

Orient v Derby, FA Cup 3rd round. 2 - 2, att 12,490.
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9th March 1970. Vs Bristol Rovers.

0-0 draw
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banqo wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:16 pm
Orient Punxx wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:55 am Fulham 6 Orient 1

7/5/77
We won the second half though!
Yes that’s how the Old Man sold it!!!
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By contrast my eldest daughter’s first game was the 8-0 Doncaster at home!
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Seriously. How could anyone remember that.
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Orient Punxx wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:14 pm By contrast my eldest daughter’s first game was the 8-0 Doncaster at home!
Remember that one think it was a Tuesday night
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FA cup round 5

home to Leicester

16 march 1963

lost 0-1

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I can remember the excitement of going to the match, wearing a blue and white scarf and a rosette with the FA cup on - lots of rattles. Its funny cos I can remember that but sometimes cant remember what I done yesterday !
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I believe it was November 1974. Went to see Laurie Cunningham. But not 100% sure of opponents.
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17 Oct 1987

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Jan 1987. 1-1 FA Cup v West Ham.
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I don't know what my first game was but it was in the 1990/91 season. The first game I remember was between then and 1993. Paul Heald was in goal, Ricky Otto played (I'm pretty sure he did) and the striker with ginger floppy hair was up top (name escapes me). Our opponent's were Shrewsbury town I think. By the game's end it was dark so it was either side of christmas, I guess. Anyone know which game that was? I think we scored twice.
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Think it was 1957 home to QPR orient won 7 1 if my memory serves me right.
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My first game was Good Friday 1966 ( April 8th ) v Ipswich town, in the old Division 2, at Brissy
we lost 1-4, with willy LeFlem scoring for us. He was a good player...a winger, and his goal that day was a beauty
I was hooked from then on
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I think this is the game

I was behind the camera. Anyone got the line-up for that game?
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