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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 22h

Oooh!

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, Gandler did say he was changing the name of the club to Eyton Orien.
#LOFC #EOFC

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 1d

Have you not read this yet? Or as John Sitton might put it, "Have you not examined the ****ing words?"
#LOFC

The Leyton Orientear @leytonorientear.com · 1d

Club For a Fiver was 30 years old yesterday! And ever since it's done so much to shape how #LOFC is perceived, both from outside the club and within it.

So come and celebrate that birthday with us now. Thanks so much to the Ear Editor of the era for re-visiting the trauma @tomdaviese17.bsky.social

Still Crazy After All These Years

Cult classic documentary "Club For a Fiver" has just turned 30 years old. The man editing the 'Ear at the time salutes the longevity of a memorable, chaotic chronicle of a memorable, chaotic time.

theleytonorientear.substack.com

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 2d

As recently as the 60s, some amateurs were playing level 2 football.

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Steve White & The Protest Family @protestfamily.com · 2d

Available via protestfamily.com/merch . Made to order by Nev.
#LOFC

The Leyton Orientear @leytonorientear.com · 3d

Available in red, white, and black ❤️🤍🖤

#OneLove #LOFC

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! After Beckles was sent off, it changed to:
"...Beckles? Early bath
Drinan? That's a laugh..."

(I was the only one singing it like that, but still.)

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 3d

DD: "And in the summer, you committed your future to The Os."
RW: "How many questions are you going to ask about this, Dave?"
#LOFC

Richie Wellens talks through Orient's 4-0 win over Doncaster Rovers

YouTube video by Leyton Orient Football Club

www.youtube.com

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 3d

#LOFC are now 3 points clear of relegation-placed Reading (21st) and Rotherham (22nd), although both have a game in hand on the east Londoners. #DRFC continue their woeful form, having gained 1 point from the last 5 matches.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 3d

I thought he was the Luton manager?

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 3d

Drinan scored 9 goals in 8 matches (all comps) starting with that one. Then he scored 0 in the next 15.
#LOFC

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 3d

#LOFC are now joint top scorers in League 1. We've also conceded most goals. No wonder so many neutrals want to come to the matches.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 4d

The thing is, we had to almost go out of existence to get here. It's a risky strategy as a way of creating good times.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 4d

I don't watch Question Time - I remember it being mostly hot air and froth - but this was a response to a loaded question. The unstated premise of the question was that our problems are poor people's fault. Hats off to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for turning it around and nailing one of the lies.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 5d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 4d

Today's #LOFC v #DRFC match is virtually sold out. There will be more patronising people saying, "It's not a bad little ground actually," and, "My great-uncle had a trial at Orient." Don't hit them. We're going to need these people.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 4d

As you know well, you need the bad times to appreciate the good.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 4d

No idea where 15 years came from! It was about 7 years.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 4d

You could argue that this season marked the start of a truly dire roughly 15 year period for #LOFC. Finished 79-80 lower than 78-79, then lower again in 80-81, relegated in 81-82, close to another relegation in 82-83, relegated in 84-85.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 5d

Moorhouse and Simkin out for internationals tomorrow. So tell your know-it-all mate at the ground that Simkin hasn't been dropped.
#LOFC

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 5d

Unbelievable from Wellens.
#LOFC

Richie Wellens on a Leyton Orient youtube video. caption: Everyone thinks Blackpool obviously with me is tree there. But Luton are a very good club. Very good. Don't worry I'll always look out for the Orient score.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 5d

I'm hearing, "Birmingham and Luton - tonight."

Wait... oh sorry, it's just my neighbour playing old Bob Marley records.

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin' And Lootin'

YouTube video by BobMarleyVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 5d

Or maybe we'll get an ad for this antifascist watch instead?
@tufac.bsky.social

The TUFAC Timepiece

22cm circumference dazzling quartz wrist watch water resistant to 30m. Printed, embossed and gilded with TUFAC logo. Presented in luxury 63.5 x...

tufac.bigcartel.com

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 6d

Thing is, if he wanted to go there, or to Blackpool, it would be hard to stop him. It would just be a question of compensation. It depends what he's been promised at
#lofc, really. He worked miracles last season, but that can't be expected every year. He's ambitious. He wants a crack higher up.

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 6d

2-0 to Scarborough on pairs of rhyming players, I suppose.

Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 6d

Who can forget that one?
Sorry, I meant: who can remember that one?

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 6d

It's the scariest bit. Suppose, for example, it redefines sport as 'a disarray composed of very small particles'? That would be a fine mess.

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