Leyton Orient Football Club

I’d not been to a football match in a long time, and had no idea how friendly it had become. home and away fns mix outside the stadium, and it was a cracking 3 – 3 draw.
hopefully relegation will bring cheaper season tickets, as I plan to come back a lot

There are a lot of Asian fans of this team, which is why when you first join the club for Orientation, you meet a lot of Orientasians. Their fave star constellation is Orien (t). And you better lock the door when you use the bathroom, Orient er in the middle of you doing your business.
First-​Hand Experience: I’m a big Leyton Orient fan. My fave London team, I’d say. Their stadium needs a facelift but their club does not. They are the heart and soul of lower division football. They have a name everyone loves and a spirit that never dies.
My last visit here in 2007 coincided with a big win and some insane celebrations for such a small team. They’re slightly pricy for a smaller team but it’s London so it’s to be expected. Lower division football is amazing, and if you’re in London, this is the place to come and see it. Real football… this is what it was like 20 years ago.
This might be my fave team in London, to be honest, which is crazy since they’re so tiny (like your boyfriend’s thingy). The stadium holds 9k, and they’re currently in the 3^rd Tier. They’re a grand old club from 1881.
They’ve never really been anywhere or gotten anywhere and their wiki page needs work, but I still love this little North East London team, a lot. They have one of the coolest names, and I need to go and Leydown for a while now.

Leyton Orient Supporters Club is the best Club bar in London, Oscar Wilde Mild always available.

If your looking for a nice local and family club to go to i recommend Leyton Orient as its got a good atmosephere and people are friendly especially as i took my son there for his first soccer game.

Alas alas, the last open terrace belonging to London’s league football clubs closed a few years ago, to be replaced by the North Family Stand and completing Brisbane Road’s transformation into The Matchroom Stadium, a cut-​price version of Stamford Bridge complete with apartments overlooking the corner flags. Cheers Barry Hearn.
Anodyne architecture aside, you get a lovely crowd at the Orient. They know their football, they don’t take themselves too seriously and aggro is pretty non-​existent.
If you make the trip, may I suggest a pre-​match tipple at The Bakers Arms (
) and perhaps a short promenade through the Coronation Gardens for some peace and quiet ahead of the rush and bellow of the match…

After the game, head to the sanctuary of the Hitchcock (
) near Whipps Cross Hospital and then head further east to the fleshpots of Essex.

The O’s, as Leyton Orient are known by their long-​suffering band of followers, are the poor relations when it comes to football in the capital. Perennial lingerers around the third or fourth tier, and traditional rivals with fellow east Londoners West Ham, the club has had to suffer the ignominy in recent times of being overtaken by fellow strugglers Millwall and Charlton. But David Beckham’s local club have something to look forward to at least — it looks as if they will be the new occupiers of London’s 2012 stadium when the Olympics have finished. It’s not like their current home is in anyway shabby. The stadium received its most recent facelift in the 90s and boasts some handsome flats at its western end whose occupants can watch home games on their balcony. Support is vocal, if threadbare for the less glamorous games (ie. most of them in League Two). Having said that, the most recent game I attended, against Leeds last year, provided 90 minutes of full-​blooded entertainment, some crunching tackles, hilarious (and quite witty) crowd banter, and, most importantly, some decent half-​time grub. Under twenty quid for a seat is cheap too, when you can expect to pay four times that just to get on a waiting list down the Arsenal.

Leyton Orient Football Club are known for perennially underachieving but at least being consistent. Brisbane Road or the ‘Matchroom Stadium’ as it is now known is a nice place to watch a game of football on a Saturday and can drum up a good atmosphere for evening games; although I must say I was partial to the Stadium a few years back before redevelopment; where they have replaced a few Stands. This is probably a good thing, moving forward and all — but I am partial to things that are old, worn and falling apart (except with girlfriends).