Christmas has always been a special time of the year at Leyton Orient. We are, after all, the only club to have had a Christmas carol written in our honour, thanks to the three kings, writes Fan’s View columnist Martin Strong.
And so this week we’ve seen the start of another season of fun and games at east London’s only proper football stadium (certainly the only one where it doesn’t take an hour to get out of the ground at the end of the match.)
And so the O's season is just about limping over the finishing line. The Fourth division race has almost been run and one of the pre-season favourites for promotion have ended up around ninth in the table.
Yes the curse of the 'Martin Strong fan's view' strikes again, as once more by agreeing to give the supporter's eye of the Luton game, the team is jinxed and we lose.
One word you certainly cannot use to describe life at East London’s premier football league club, with Francesco Becchetti in charge is dull.
It's always been said that FA Cup third round weekend is one of the highlights of the season football wise in this country.
At the start of the season the odds on Leicester City being joint top of the Premier League at the beginning of December would have been long for sure.
It has to be said that ‘Eric Morecambe week’ at the Orient turned out a highly satisfactory one for all concerned at Brisbane Road.
Half a century of Orient supporting should by now have me accustomed to the ups and downs of following east London's premier football team.
Arriving home from Swindon last Sunday, I actually felt quite relieved the circus that was Leyton Orient’s 2014-2015 season had actually come to an end.
