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Leyton Orient Awaydaze
Leyton Orient Awaydaze
Monday, 6th Apr 2009 21:28

Our re-arranged trip to Leyton Orient is tomorrow night, with kick off at 7.45.

Leyton Orient’s fine ground is in East London, and if you’re coming down by car you need to take the M25 round to the M11, then head towards London. Take the southbound carriageway for about 6 miles and take the right fork signposted for the North Circular. At the bottom of the flyover where the roads merge, move into the left-hand lane and turn left at the roundabout on to the A104. After about 1 mile at the next roundabout take the right exit by the Lamb's Café, but you’ll still be on the A104.

 

 Half a mile further on, turn left in to Leyton Green Road (signposted to Leyton and Stratford), and left again into a short slip-road past the bus garage entrance and left into Leyton High Road - you'll see the Leyton Leisure Lagoon opposite as you wait to make the turn. Continue until you see the floodlights and then find a side turning to park in the back-streets. There are no official car parks available for ordinary fans. 

 

It’s no surprise that the nearest tube station is Leyton, on the Central Line, which is only 1/4 of a mile away. Turn right outside the station and continue along Leyton High Road. Turn left into Buckingham Road, and you can’t miss it.

 

The nearest pub to the ground is the ‘Coach & Horses’, on the left hand side of Leyton High Road as you walk up from the tube station. If you go past the ground and continue a bit further up the road you’ll find the ‘Three Blackbirds’ on the right, while if you go the other way from the tube station you can sample the delights of the ‘Birkbeck Tavern’ in Langthorne Road.  

 

The ground former known as Brisbane Road now goes under the moniker ‘the Matchroom Stadium’, presumably in honour of chairman Barry Hearne’s other sporting interests. The club have built three new stands in the last few years, financed by selling the corners of the ground for housing. While many aspects of this development were welcome, such as replacing the former open terraces with covered stands, it’s infuriating that the club chose to go all-seater when as a lower division club they didn’t have to.  

 

Away fans used to get one of the open terraces behind the goals, but the new stands have been deemed much too good to give to the visitors, so we now have part of the East Stand, the oldest part of the ground. It was originally opened at Brisbane Road in 1956, but the stand is actually even older than that, as the club bought from the derelict Mitcham Stadium. As befitting a stand of it’s age, it has several supporting pillars to block the view, and the roof doesn't quite cover the front rows of seats.

We get 1,459 tickets at the southern end of this stand, out of a total capacity of 9,271, at a cost of £20 for adults and £13 for concessions. Our allocation has long since sold out, but the official Orient Website said today that there were ‘home’ tickets still available in three different stands. So if you’ve got a London address, you might still be in luck.

 

In the future the club might move to the nearby Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games, but only after the capacity has been reduced from 80,000 to 25,000. Let’s hope they make it, so that if we have to play them again after 2013 we can get a decent allocation of tickets.

 

Some of this stuff came from www.footballgroundguide.com.

 

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