The podders discuss Leyton Orient’s latest owner and football’s dalliances with Love Island. Obviously. Plus all the latest transfer news, including Liverpool splashing the cash on Mohammed Salah Your post-season bonus pods continue with this special Friday edition of Football Weekly Extra, as AC Jimbo, Barry Glendenning, James Horncastle and Simon Burnton round up all the oodles and oodles of football news from the past, er, four days.We riff on the success of the England U-21s in Poland, hear from Nick Ames about his experiences at the Confederations Cup in Russia, and get stuck into the real tasty business – Liverpool signing Mo Salah from Roma for a club record fee, and Dunkin’ Donuts getting a piece of Leyton Orient....
Reading, Sheffield Wednesday and (almost certainly) Fulham sealed play-off places, Wigan went down and it’s still tight all round in League Two• Blackburn Rovers took the fight for Championship survival to the final day of the season with a 1-0 win over Aston Villa at Ewood Park, courtesy of Danny Graham steering home after 54 minutes. The win brought Rovers level with Nottingham Forest, who lost 2-0 at QPR, confirming Rangers’ safety in the process. Both sides have 48 points; Forest host Ipswich in their final game, and Blackburn head to Brentford. Related: Harry Redknapp’s 10-man Birmingham City sink Huddersfield Related: League One finale: what’s at stake in the promotion and relegation battles #EFL media advisory - @leytonorientfc v @ColU_Official...
A winding-up petition against the League Two club has been adjourned until June and worried Orient fans were there to follow developments In the end it takes just seven minutes. The high court in London decides not to liquidate Leyton Orient, or place them in administration, but instead accepts a promise from the owner, Francesco Becchetti, that he will put another £1m into the club to clear its debts. But it has been a gruelling day for fans of a club that just three years ago was on the brink of the Championship.There had been a small cheer in Court 1 at the Rolls Building as Leyton Orient’s name was read out for the first time. Around 40 fans have...
London’s second-oldest professional club are being led a merry dance by Francesco Becchetti, who in 30 months has steered Orient from the verge of the Championship to the brink of non-league footballThis has been quite the season for crisis clubs. The Premier League title race may be a foregone conclusion but the battle for the “honour” of most mismanaged club in England could go right to the wire. Charlton, Coventry, Blackburn, Blackpool and Morecambe have endured campaigns pockmarked by protest and off-field chaos but surely none can match the meltdown at Leyton Orient, who look destined for relegation to the non-league ranks after 112 years of Football League membership. And it is looking less like a relegation through misjudgment or...