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MUDDY pitches, long hair, beards, sideburns, three o'clock kick-offs, Saturday night classified papers and stylish football played by honest pro's before money-grabbing players and agents, commercialism and corporate greed turned the upper echelons of our once beautiful game ugly . . . this is the rollercoaster story of a humble, little London club in the 1970s.
A memorable decade which, to their great credit, Orient spent entirely in English football's second tier. It began so gloriously with promotion as Third Division champions under Jimmy Bloomfield and, four years later, carried the East Enders to the threshold of the top flight. By then under the management of George Petchey, the Os agonisingly finished one point short of promotion to the old First Division – so near, so far. And they have never gone anywhere like as close to gatecrashing the elite ever since.
This lavishly produced book is a celebration of one of the most evocative, exciting, stable and fondly remembered periods in the history of London's second oldest professional football club. As well as their struggles to retain their Second Division status, relive the highs and lows of epic FA Cup runs, including thrilling victories over Chelsea and the heartbreaking semi-final defeat by Arsenal in 1978.
This fascinating story is told through season-by-season reviews; comprehensive statistics and tables; rare and previously unpublished photographs; and, especially, exclusive, new and candid interviews with the men who represented Orient: former manager Petchey and ex-players Mickey Bullock, Peter Kitchen, Joe Mayo, Barrie Fairbrother, Phil Hoadley, Bobby Fisher, captains Terry Mancini and Peter Allen, Orient's greatest-ever goalkeeper John Jackson, veteran wingers Mark Lazarus and Peter Brabrook, Dennis Rofe, Mick Jones, Paul Harris, Nigel Gray and Os' club record transfer, John Chiedozie.
We also tackle the emotive subjects of racism, anti-semitism and hooligans rampaging across uncovered terraces, when Doc Martens were as prevalent as plain black football boots.
Plus . . . special tribute to arguably Orient's finest discovery, the late Laurie Cunningham.
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MUDDY pitches, long hair, beards, sideburns, three o'clock kick-offs, Saturday night classified papers and stylish football played by honest pro's before money-grabbing players and agents, commercialism and corporate greed turned the upper echelons of our once beautiful game ugly . . . this is the rollercoaster story of a humble, little London club in the 1970s.
This lavishly produced book is a celebration of one of the most evocative, exciting, stable and fondly remembered periods in the history of London's second oldest professional football club. As well as their struggles to retain their Second Division status, relive the highs and lows of epic FA Cup runs, including thrilling victories over Chelsea and the heartbreaking semi-final defeat by Arsenal in 1978.
We also tackle the emotive subjects of racism, anti-semitism and hooligans rampaging across uncovered terraces, when Doc Martens were as prevalent as plain black football boots.
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