ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

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ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by ClaretTony » Sat May 09, 2020 9:56 am

Reports from our two local papers

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https://www.uptheclarets.com/the-orient ... ocal-press
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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by bfcjg » Sat May 09, 2020 10:49 am

I think these reports should be paraphrased and put on brass plaques around the Turf as a constant reminder of how far we have come and if not careful how far we could fall.

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by Redbeard » Sat May 09, 2020 12:10 pm

Great stuff.

That first report is particularly well written.

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by Longsidelenny » Sat May 09, 2020 9:29 pm

That is a brilliant idea bfcjg utc

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by 4:20 » Sat May 09, 2020 10:06 pm

Empty seats in the cricketfield, not a lot in the away end, no man's land empty, long side bottom right as you look at it was thinning out, both sides of the beehole were thinned out as was the front. 17,500 sounds reasonable.

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by ClaretTony » Sat May 09, 2020 10:46 pm

4:20 wrote:
Sat May 09, 2020 10:06 pm
Empty seats in the cricketfield, not a lot in the away end, no man's land empty, long side bottom right as you look at it was thinning out, both sides of the beehole were thinned out as was the front. 17,500 sounds reasonable.
But in all my years on the Longside I was never squashed in like I was that day.
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Post by Herts Clarets » Sat May 09, 2020 11:45 pm

Only 2 shirts remained intact....

I asked Ray Deakin for his shirt as he ran off the pitch. He was happily taking it off to give to me when 2 of Lancashire's finest constables saw fit to grab me round the neck and put my arm up my back to prevent me getting a momento of the day.

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Post by 4:20 » Sat May 09, 2020 11:55 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Sat May 09, 2020 10:46 pm
But in all my years on the Longside I was never squashed in like I was that day.
No doubt that a large section of the Longside was squashed, perhaps 3 quarters of it going off the footage and there appeared to be a decent sized squash right in the centre of the Beehole but would this take the actual attendance above say the likes of the Wrexham game in 92'? I'm not sure.

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by ralphdpomeroy » Sun May 10, 2020 6:08 am

The ground was less full than for the two Blackpool games in 90-1 and 91-2 and definitely not as packed as the Wrexham game..17600 seemed like 35000 after we'd been playing to @2000 most weeks.

I used to stand on the longside roughly in line with the Bee Hole 18 yard line and for most of that season you could see right through the full length of the longside ...hard to describe how empty it was most weeks .I remember when we played Wolves they brought a big following...the gate was still under 3000...

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by tim_noone » Sun May 10, 2020 7:17 am

ClaretTony wrote:
Sat May 09, 2020 10:46 pm
But in all my years on the Longside I was never squashed in like I was that day.
The evening fa cup replay against Chelsea was pretty tight on the terracing in 1970 and Sheffield wednesday again in the fa cup 83? Was pretty special to. When the fa cup meant something :D

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Re: ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Local Press

Post by ClaretTony » Sun May 10, 2020 9:41 am

tim_noone wrote:
Sun May 10, 2020 7:17 am
The evening fa cup replay against Chelsea was pretty tight on the terracing in 1970 and Sheffield wednesday again in the fa cup 83? Was pretty special to. When the fa cup meant something :D
They were, but the Longside was nothing like on those two occasions as it was for the Orient game.

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