Riots And Relegation: What the F*** Happened To Leyton Orient

[Music] we all know that three years is a long time in football where anything can happen to our clubs for better or worse but no Leyton Orient fan could possibly have foreseen the disaster that awaited their club when Italian businessman Francesco Burkett II took over the O's [Music] miquellee bought the O's in mid 2014 when the club were illegal one side and in heartbreakingly just missed out on the championship playoff fans were told that bikini was the man to bring them that elusive emotion gonna be in the Premier League we're gonna be you know competing for the euro you know everything instead in less than three seasons he bought them ten different managers relegation assault on the assistant coach and much much worse being like a nightmare really I mean 2017 he had London second oldest club mired in the seemingly hopeless relegation battle in Ligue 2 with staff and players not paid in months or while he hid out in his Mayfair mansion I don't think a club could be worse run I don't think it's possible so with the club 12 points from safety and away against fourth place promotion tracing Luton we just had to join them thought would almost certainly be later Noreen's final professional game in 112 years could prepare us for we were gonna experience would say the odds are you staying up I wouldn't pay if you put in a penny on it but it that way faster NASA knew we can stay I think I think it's politics gone off now come on the pitch matters we go we're gonna go down we're gonna be a conference in Maxie's Astoria Blake Noreen over the last three years is of one man's incompetence vindictiveness cheap a dirty [Music] we players and stuff not being played you know fair patient - they're going out there today they've only received half a wage apparently not having a football club just heartbreaking you know we have to find salvager we need how this could be the final day for the club in the Football League was like everyone's almost accepted it already [Music] [Applause] [Music] Lewton one nil and everyone's heads gone down this was odd means right now this club are going down and you just look at the faces you just realize this how one guy can cause so much pain to so many and ruin such a legacy this is heartbreaking it's like a bad dream and we haven't woken up yet on the relegation Zanda Tranter embargo the extradition warrant players are getting paid losing every week new team players playing today where'd you want to stop I mean can I stop what's the run at the moment seven games twenty conceded I've been to 14 home games of seasoned we've lost all 14 hunger-free go go on one of those shot [Applause] I mean they told me supporting led Marion is a rollercoaster [Applause] magical the chamber there I managed to stay oh he lose today is that it I suppose if we draw two dates phone well we've got Africa in it this this should be no fair the pressures on you get this win though how to say it's not gonna happen slight delay the inevitable [Applause] [Music] we took we join them fair and nothing about football talking about running a business but a lot of money in the only obvious I think it's done you know it's not all about money it's what you do with it the English Football League of just shat back there live one main struggle the club would have two million pound it Atsuko were more into progressed because all these decisions we found one in here he's done it he's done the damage sushi Carl thank me making variegated that's not the end of the world the end of the world is to be destroyed [Music] like remember in Allah beloved only dream by ignoring can jump the state safe though the moods kind of change [Music] remember Leyton Orient to do nothing but win and win and win and win [Applause] half time and it is believable or not Leyton Orient with the squad of 18 year olds hidden heart the truth and the dream still goes on just seeing chocolate of one their game Hartlepool is the only team they can jump to stay safe but they're only seven points after this we've got three more games where we only spend a game and a half with this club and it is being absolutely mental what I kind of continue and if they don't well they're going to go out doing it like only Leyton Orient can like it's a service corner I can't watch this which means there's a mini pitch invasion going on [Music] this whole videos would be a one day trip to ruining and then you guys go and defeat the odds then you win this game who's next crew on Saturday I think gonna have to wear is come on everyone since a thousand to one but what if you just keep getting these results it could happen it could happen see these that these are a bunch of pieces [Music] the third time this might be them boats coming air we hope again so I want to bring this up this came up over the week who has all the tea ladies everyone who works in the media because they're not getting the scent these are hot people that mortgages I think that touching another type of moisture a franchise because he FL and the fa so the cases and it's his response but she's run away it's by the way all the problems but you have to win every game but you have a win or a draw means you are yeah a draw mates we're done [Music] turns out cruise captain for today is actually one of the blokes you missed the penalty it could have taken let alone after the championship [Applause] to curve beep once again third time on this journey Leiden are now officially out of the Football League for the first time at the moment it's still laughing about it but you feel like this sort of this time it's over but they need to win this match a half-time crew 3 nose that'll be it [Music] [Applause] actually now about Paquette in every story [Music] I don't think and if you really tried you could do it [Music] [Music] so we're just gotten to the final minute of the game these are late lorian's final minutes of the football league after 112 years some of the fans have grabbed one of the banners and lifted it they refuse to go down without making their voice and they've made one thing clear this is their choir not the owners they're the ones who never the conference not the owner and they're the ones who come back up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the other half these guys I think I've ever come across I don't want you suck colonel then I'm gone as well it's a it's one guy that's done this these wonders to the ground but he'll never take us whole we haven't been through thick and thin we've been through thinner and thinner you're still here with and your sons and your grandsons it'll be here next year this is when the club media for some reason this match the matter Orion officially down there a non-league side is on the verge of being sold out hours before the games even started luckily Dan's getting us tickets Dan you guys goes to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] they went mental these feelings pitch invasions flares Etsy no [Music] he's a multi-millionaire live another 25 million pound house in London and he hasn't paid any of the staff players none of the contractors been hi we're not gonna end until we can get some fans and then we get the publicity the FL are going to be embarrassed about it hundred forty-five these generations of clients coming in you've thrown in free [Applause] I have never seen fifteen minutes of each other [Applause] you know together [Music] [Applause] [Music] in four matches we found the club with so much heart and soul ruled by a man with none a terrible avoidable tragedy then the football authorities could and should have helped solve long before got to this but the kind of passion we came across it doesn't die easily and the Orion will be back in the football league again the candy circus long behind them [Music] you

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Keywords: Leyton, Orient, Relegation, Owner, Bechetti, tragedy, circus, pitch, controversy, LOFC, invasion, mayhem, luton, crewe, hartlepool, colchester, loss, football, soccer, copa90, copa 90

Id: lvYSJomCp08

Length: 15min 9sec (909 seconds)

Published: Sun May 07 2017