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This is a book guaranteed to provide hours of fun for Leyton
Orient's loyal fans. Containing over 1,300 challenging questions,
"Leyton Orient The Official Quiz Book" will test the memory of all
O's fans with sections covering every aspect of the club's history.
Some of the questions being fairly easy, and some a little more
difficult, but all done with the purpose of enlightening all O's
and footballing fans around the world about our grand history and
important events. It also covers many of the players and officials
over the years right down to today when we all look to the Gaffer,
Russell Slade and his boys taking O's up the League. As informative
as it is entertaining, this book is guaranteed to provide hours of
fun for Leyton Orient's loyal fans.
The story of Leyton Orient FC, from its beginnings in the 19th
century to the present day, is covered in fascinating detail. Every
game that the club has played at first team level is detailed.
There are profiles of the club's great players, the managers, the
programmes, the attendances, the games that secured trophies and a
history of all the grounds played on. Completed with a breakdown of
each player's individual record and full representative
appearances, this book is a book that provides everything any
Orient fan, and indeed and football fan could want to know about
Leyton Orient FC.
Tommy Johnston was voted Leyton Orient's greatest ever player by
fans of the club in a poll to mark the Millennium, gaining 20
percent of all votes cast. Born in Loanhead, Tommy holds the club
record for the most goals scored in a single season, and the most
goals scored on aggregate throughout his career. During his long
career, Tommy played in every class of football, from juvenile
football in Scotland with Loanhead Mayflower and Peebles Rovers, to
professional with one Scottish League club (Kilmarnock), one Welsh
club (Newport County) and seven English clubs: Darlington, Oldham
Athletic, Norwich City, Leyton Orient (twice), Blackburn Rovers and
Gillingham. In this new book about his life and times as a
footballer, Neilson Kaufman and Alan Ravenhill chart the ups and
downs of Tommy Johnston's career, telling his story for the legions
of fans up and down the country who remember his special talents.
The text is embellished with many previously unpublished
photographs from the Johnston family archive, and there are full
statistical records to give a complete picture of the career of one
of the greatest players ever to pull on a Leyton Orient shirt. The
book is an essential addition to the bookshelves of any fan with an
interest in the men who shaped the history of our national game,
and is sure to have wide appeal.
This book is part of the Images of Sport series, which uses old
photographs and archived images to show the history of various
local sports in Great Britain.
This collection of nearly 240 photographs and items of memorabilia
traces the course of London's second oldest Football League club,
from its foundation by former members of Homerton College in 1881
to the side that looks to climb up the divisions at the start of
the twenty-first century.
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