Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Thought I would see how many of us are based in or out of London? Me born St Georges Road E10 (less than 5 mins walk to Brissy) but brought up in Aylesbury. Dad took me to see local teams Oxford & Luton & didn't connect but at the age of 10 took me to see the O's & supported ever since.

Grew up in Essex, Dad took me to Spurs a couple of times but he wasn't a regular and I'd decided to support someone else anyway just to be awkward. One day I chose to follow the loser of the live ITV game between Man Utd and Arsenal in 89 or something, Arsenal won so I went with Utd. Big fan for the first part of the 90s (before every other bugger in the South East supported them, honest) but wanted to see live football.

Best mate at school used to go to Os with his Dad so I tagged along one week, first game was in Feb 1994. Instantly hooked and despite my first proper season seeing a spectacularly bad relegation side, been going ever since.

Currently living the closest I ever have to Orient in Blackhorse Road, love that they're genuinely my local side.

Born in ackney wick ( the old ackney ospital ) 70 years ago , went to my first game when I was twelve in 1964 , been going ever since , been In in befnal green nearly 58 years .

Lived in Albert Rd as a kid (now mid Essex) and was taken along to the Os for my 9th birthday by my cousin - with me out of the way, the family all gathered at home for a surprise party.
We got a sneaky upgrade into the East Stand ( no names coz the employee still works there. )

So, at Sutton in two weeks, that’s exactly 56 years and I’ve never watched a live game unless the Os are involved …. here my account-name on these chat forums.

C’mon you Os!!

Born in Canterbury Road a thousand years ago. Went to first game on Dad's shoulders in 1949. Trained at Cricket ground by Billy Taylor, Mal Lucas and Cyril Lee. Now live in France and watch stream.

Oh, and taught physics by Phil Woosnam.

Lots of information being divulged here.

In light of events earlier this week, be careful guys.

Born in and still lives in god's own country Yorkshire, when Doncaster rovers got rid of their best player to Orient in 1977 Peter Kitchen, I decided to follow him, what a player he was and don't we need him now.

Texas ,Nige rang me .

Born loughton now near stamford via cambrigeshire .Merseyside and yorkshire.first game boxing day 1964 with dad who was arsenal.mums side of family generations of orient.

Born In Thorpe Coombe Hospital now residing in St Ives, Cambridgeshire via Leyton and Walthamstow.

Lived in Leyton a ten minute walk from the ground and first went in 1966 with my dad.

I was born in Wanstead Hospital more than 60 years ago & lived in Leytonstone near Cann Hall Rd. My late dad was a huge O's fan & is solely to blame for my love of & obsession with this club.
I went to Cardiff Uni in the late 90's to train for a legal career & have been an exile ever since.
The O's sometimes do my head in but have largely given me great joy this season.
I'm looking forward to a personal expose in Panda of all the troublemakers & ungrateful wretches on this Forum with hopefully many of them then being intimidated on line.

Walthamstow & I don’t

Born in Reading, raised in Upper Clapton. Friends and myself were playing in the flats playground one Saturday, when a man's voice shouted "come on we're going to football". My friend asked his dad if l could go as well. My mum said l could go, and, as they say, the rest is history, and that was 66 years ago.

Born in Hackney (Hackney mother’s home) lived in Leyton, Dad took me to my first game in 64/65, still haven’t forgiven him yet

CEB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:15 am Walthamstow & I don’t

There's always one !!

T'was Good Friday ( April 8th), 1966. My Dad had a row with my Mum, and he wanted to get away from her, so he said to 15 yr old me, " do you want to go to football"
" Who's playing", said I
" We can go to watch Orient" replies my dad
So we did, and of course I was hooked. We played Ipswich that day and got beat 1-4, but i was hooked and supported the club ever since.

Moved to London in 1987. Flat was in Melford Road so it was easy to walk over to the ground via the Northcote of a Saturday afternoon.

Initially went to confirm my theory about the poor quality of Div 4 football and I wasn't disappointed. Having confirmed that supporting my local team would lead to a life of misery and despair I couldn't sign up quick enough.

To be honest they are my third team after Johnstone Burgh and Motherwell.

I was also born in Wanstead hospital. Lived in Woodford Green until 35.

I was attracted by the promise of glamour and success.

Whole family supported them so despite growing up the other side of London, had little choice. Got properly suckered in once I was mascot and met childhood heroes Matty Lockwood and Amara Simba.

Now effectively a local, which unfortunately means I have less of an excuse to skip games.

Beradogs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:37 am I was also born in Wanstead hospital. Lived in Woodford Green until 35.

How old were you in 1935? Had you down as being younger.

Moved into a flat in Markhouse Rd in 1987 so a nice easy walk (usually via The Antelope) to the ground. Got hooked, in large part due to the magic of Alan Comfort and started going regularly. Back in Scotland now but still get to games when I can and support the club financially as much as I can. Dundee FC are my first love though.

Born and brought up in Ilford. Left there when I got married in 1972. Lived in Manchester, then W London and for 34 years in S Wales. First went to Brisbane Rd in 1960. Saw hem beat Middlesborough 5-0 - Brian Clough was anonymous. From that match Orient were my team.

I live in Pembrokeshire now, and this is going to be my first season since 1974 that I haven’t attended one O’s match. And I don’t enjoy the live streaming service, so am pretty semi-detached now. Maybe I’ll get to a game next season.