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.

This campaign has been a bit like one of those long distance athletics races, where there's a pace setter who goes off like a rocket and is well ahead early on and then gets caught by the whole field and finally crosses the finishing line way behind the winner, and virtually everybody else. For pace setter, of course read Leyton Orient Football Club.

After five league games Becchetti's boys had a 100 per cent record, and certain fans were looking forward to not having to worry about the play-offs, automatic promotion having long been secured come May.

Well at least those supporters got their wish in that we don't have to endure the anxiety of the end of season lottery, and there's no chance of suffering a third consecutive defeat at Wembley this time round. With our record from the penalty spot in 2015-2016, we'd have had no chance of succeeding in a penalty shootout anyway.

After giving us four managers last season, rather surprisingly Francesco only gave us three this time around. You've got to admire the great man, who saw at the end of the campaign that Andy Hessenthaler, with just 33 years experience in the game, needed a helping hand from a proper football man and he so formed the selection committee, with Becchetti himself at the forefront of it.

Hess himself said he'd never known anything like it in all his time in the game, but then again he's never worked at Leyton Orient before.

Yes, 2015-2016 will be remembered as the most disappointing season for the club since.... well the season before actually. Our thoughts now move forward to the next campaign, and we wonder just what joys await us all at the heaven that is Brisbane Road in 2016-2017.

As always at Leyton Orient, there are plenty of rumours doing the rounds. I've heard from a good source that our owner wants to keep the selection committee, and has invited Sid James and Kenneth Williams onto it, providing they take Italian lessons in the summer, and that Hattie Jacques is to be our new goalkeeping coach to replace Rob Gagliardi who will become our new assistant manager and president.

Personally I think that's all a bit far fetched, but then I suppose remembering all the antics we witnessed after the Portsmouth game on Boxing Day, I suppose anything is possible at the Brisbane Road Big Top these days. I also can't confirm it, but someone told me that Tijuana Taxi was being replaced by the Benny Hill theme music to lead the team out starting in August. (For younger readers Benny Hill was a popular comedian on the television some 40 years ago, a kind of seventies version of Francesco Becchetti, without the beard).

Isn't it a shame that they stopped making Carry On films some time ago? Becchetti's apparently made a fortune out of waste disposal back in Italy, surely that fortune would pale into insignificance in comparison to what 'Carry On Orient' could gross him at the cinema these days? We've already experienced success on the small screen with our reality television show in Albania, surely we could transfer this success onto the movie stage in the not too distant future?

Saturday saw the curtain come down on the football at Brisbane Road this campaign, with the definitive end of season battle between the side in 14th place and the one in 11th. We caused something of an upset in defeating the higher placed team, and we thus rose up to ninth with a solid display by all involved, noteably by the two young debutants.

Quite rightly a deserved lap of honour followed the final whistle in celebration, the only thing missing was Francesco joining in with the lads, high fiving the fans around the pitch, which we all expected. I heard however that the great man was not at the ground at all Saturday, rumour was that he was away doing his FA coaching exams, in readiness for next season.

So what of next year? My season ticket renewal will be in the post to the club this week, and we all eagerly await June 22, when the fixtures for the new season will be out. None of us know what 2016-17 will bring for the mighty O's, but one thing we do know is that life will not be dull in E10 next year. It never is, lets face it.

I'm off now to cheer on any team that's playing those horrible Albanians in the European Championships this summer, and I'll be back refreshed and raring to go, cheering our boys on come first game of the season in August.

And of course before then we've got the meet the owner evening with Francesco Becchetti at the Supporter's Club on July 25 to look forward to, though it remains to be seen if the title of it will have to be changed to 'meet the manager'. Nothing would surprise me anymore at Brisbane Road.