Leyton Orient: Games of the Eighties

For the Orient (and subsequently Leyton Orient) the eighties were a decade that can be described as a fairly typical one in the club's 130 year history. Here are the games that made it. There was the usual share of pain in the league, the standard sprinkling of heroic cup performances and, of course, more than the odd financial crisis to deal with over the ten year period. In the league their top position was achieved at Xmas 1980. The First Division never came though. Indeed, by the time the O's had lost at home to Halifax on 3 January 1987 they had collapsed so dramatically that they were the 89 best team in the country, a drop of 52 places in seven years. With Frank Clarke in charge for the whole decade, long after he would have been shown the door by othe clubs, there were still some memorable matches. These games are still regularly talked and argued about in the Supporters' Club and in similar local places of refreshment, on the Orient message boards and generally amongst the Leyton faithful many years on.

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