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Richie Wellens: The case for and against
14.10.26, 10:00 Updated 14.10.26, 20:27
Did Richie Wellens’ post-match interview with Dave Victor after earning a draw at Bradford signal the emergence of a new Richie Wellens?
After weeks of being seen but not heard, the Leyton Orient manager took a decidedly contrite tone in accepting blame for overcomplicating his instructions in training, leading to the poor run of results.
It was a sharp contrast from the defiant and peeved manner in which he had spoken during Orient’s struggles before he went off media for about a month.
"I take full accountability. We got a new group of players at the start of the season and I wanted to be top straight away – on the ball, patterns, rotate, all of this – and I forgot to do the foundations,” he told Victor. “The team has worked hard. Sometimes it's tried too hard. But I take accountability because I want to get to us being a top football team, but I've dodged doing the basics and the defensive stuff."
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Herman Wang
The Leyton LaureateHerman previously ran the Leyton Laureate blog and is a season ticket holder in the North Stand. In addition to writing and editing for the Orientear, he is a RainbOs committee member. In his day job, he is a business journalist and began his career as a sports reporter in the U.S.