It was Martin Ling’s team of London Legends who were triumphant at Brisbane Road earlier this afternoon, as a late strike from Scott McGleish sealed a 5-4 victory in a charity match set up by Leyton Orient youth-team coach Errol McKellar.

The match, which saw a team of celebrities take on a side of former and current professionals which included the likes of McGleish, Charlie Daniels, Gary Alexander, George Boateng, as well as Orient head coach Justin Edinburgh, was set up by McKellar to raise money for both Prostate Cancer UK and mental health charity MIND.

McKellar, who currently volunteers within Orient’s academy, endured a brief battle with Prostate Cancer in 2011 and has since been raising awareness of the disease for Prostate Cancer UK.

It was the London Legends, managed by Orient’s director of football Ling, who opened the scoring early on as a deft touch from Alexander released Jamie Cureton in behind the celebrities’ backline and he finished with aplomb, as his low effort with the outside of his boot found the bottom corner.

Former O’s striker Kevin Lisbie then blazed over from just inside the area, before Aiden Palmer inexplicably missed from barely six yards out when completely unmarked, as his side-footed effort flew over the bar.

The only dampener on an otherwise thoroughly enjoyable afternoon came in the 21st minute, when DJ Spoony had to be stretchered off for McKellar’s team of celebrities after seemingly getting his studs caught in the turf.

But that didn’t affect the celebrity XI, as former Orient boss Omer Riza showed great strength to muscle his way past the O’s current head coach Edinburgh, before lifting the ball over Barri Twinn in the Legends goal to put McKellar’s team back on level terms.

Riza then notched his second of the afternoon moments later when he calmly slotted home from close range after Matty Joseph had failed to cut out a cross and he was denied a hat-trick just after the half-hour mark, when his rising effort was well kept-out by Twinn.

McKellar’s celebrity team wouldn’t have to wait long for a third, though, which came from the resultant corner, when Robbie Gee slotted low past Twinn after a well worked manoeuvre and it was four on the stroke of half-time, when substitute Daniel Lassman sent a low effort into the bottom corner.

After Cureton had struck the post as the half-time whistle blew, the London Legends pulled one back just moments into the second half, when substitute McGleish played in Lisbie, who showed the composure which saw him notch 48 times for the O’s, as he calmly slotted past the celebrity’s substitute goalkeeper Mark Wright.

Having set-up the second goal, McGleish, who enjoyed four spells with Orient, was to make it 4-3 as he drilled a low effort across Wright and into the back of the net.

A superb comeback from the London Legends was then capped off just after the hour mark through former Watford centre-back Danny Shittu, who can’t have scored many better in his career when his thunderous volley flew into the top corner to make it 4-4.

Cureton and Daniels both had chances before McGleish notched his second of the afternoon to help Martin Ling’s side retake the lead, as he brilliantly curled the ball into the roof of the net after good work from AFC Bournemouth’s Daniels.

The Legends had goalkeeper Twinn to thank when he pulled off a great save to push Paolo Vernazza’s effort around the post and he then saved with his feet to deny Riza from notching a hat-trick.

Twinn was called into action once again by Riza before Cureton came within a whisker of making it six with the last kick of the game, as his chipped effort struck the bar.