Independent Leyton Orient Forum

RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:55 am

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:44 pm

Andy Gilson wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:50 pm
The 1st Pro footballer to sign up for the footballers battalion was an O and we were the 1st English club to sign en masse.
To quote a zero attendance is being silly as clubs with 60, 000 capacity have technically played in front of no fans, we all know our home crowds have doubled since the 80s.
The never evening problem on here is the endless pursuit of finding something negative out of something positive.
It's a really good video, well put together. Why not just get behind the team from the off, sure, if we have a bad match discuss where improvements could be made, but honestly the negativity on here is astounding at times.
Have a lovely weekend.

If an Orient player was indeed the 1st professional to sign up
Then Steve Jenkins would have included it in his book &
Numerous interviews.

Donald Bell is named as arguably the 1st professional to sign up.
https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWfootball.htm
Weve gone from the 1st club to sign en masse to being the 1st english club.
Its daft to quote the mid 80s attendeces in comparison to now
Even dafter to say zero fans have been in 60,000 stadia .
Just proves we are not unique in zerofans attending.

Yes its a good video but
This lazy quote from most football clubs about we are a unique club
Is daft when we have pathetic reasons given for our uniqueness.


It could have been pointed out along with the 1 unique point you listed about Wembley
That we are probably the only club to have been visited by the future king , because of our clubs
Strong showing during the war . As well as receiving funding from Royalty.

If you are going to quote stuff as FACT
make sure it is FACT .
Please, that is all i ask .


You are supposed to be someone who Orient fans respect
Dont be lazy with your reporting or reasoning or explanations
Of Uniqueness with regard to this CLUB .

Ok , how about we’re unique because we just about survived having B ecchetti as our owner. And before you say there has been other bad owners elsewhere,there’s only been one Francesco B ecchetti