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No Need To Harborough Grudge as Os Cruise Into Second Round
07.11.26, 20:00 Updated 07.11.26, 20:26 5 Minute Read
Harborough Town's second visit to the First Round proper of the world's oldest football competition didn't go so well as their first visit, as the Os eased past opponents from three levels beneath them.
Hindsight will judge this as a pretty routine win, but the build up did give rise to some anxiety - not just because of Harborough's late signing of a 6'9" behemoth, but also because of Orient's strange decision to open up all four stands in the expectation of a large crowd drawn by lower prices. Orient had targeted an attendance of 5,000 but the numbers looked over thousand shy of this at kick off, with the North and home sections of the East looking particularly empty. If this was an early test of David Gandler's theory that there is a deep pool of untapped demand out there, it was a costly failure.
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EditorEditor of the Ear since 2021, and proud to take it into its fifth decade. Was singularly unqualified for the job, but no-one else wanted to do it. Sees Orient with the zeal of the adult convert rather than someone who was dragged to church every weekend from childhood.