Leyton Orient 8 (yes, that's "eight") Droylsden 2

Maybe Lisa Kogan was right, maybe miracles do exist after all. What the hell happened here? I didn't go to the game (it's a school night, so I can't take the kids) but I wish I had now.

Almost unbelievably, we were 2-0 down and heading for a giantkilling of sorts when we pulled a goal back through Chorley, Tehoue equalised late on, and both Tehoue and McGleish grabbed hat-tricks in extra time.

Unfortunately, both Chorley and Forbes were sent off, meaning we'll be missing our defensive partnership for at least one match. So I suppose it wasn't a miracle after all.

The best description I saw of the match was on Facebook, where one friend commented:

"it was like watching a cat toy with a mouse. A slightly inept, lame cat, agreed". Up the O's.

Norwich, fear us.

Leyton Orient 3 Chelsea 2

Drogba and Lampard put Chelsea into the lead, but goals from Revell, Cox and McGleish secure Orient a stunning victory...?

Ha! In my dreams. But @barafundler posted a link to this video on Twitter, from 1972.



Chelsea weren't as strong then comparatively as they are now, but they weren't that far off - Bonetti, Hollins, Osgood, Webb and Hudson all played, the backbone of the team that had won the FA Cup in 1970.

Maybe the 3rd round of the FA Cup this season could bring about a similar result...?

Dagenham & Redbridge 1 Leyton Orient 1

In which Alex Revell appears to be turning into some kind of lanky goal machine. Funny, he never seems to be so likely to score when I see him play.

And we let a lead slip yet again, this time just minutes after scoring ourselves. This is getting to be a very tiresome habit.

In the 2nd round, we're away to Droylsden, but more excitingly, AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons will meet in the 2nd round if they get through their replays! At Wimbledon's ground! That's got to be on TV. Ebbsfleet, Stevenage, sorry guys, but for the sake of football, you've got to throw these games.

Dag & Red

• 30 Lewington
• 05 Antwi
• 06 Arber
• 20 Vindelot
• 03 McCrory
• 07 Green
• 14 Palsson
• 18 Taiwo
• 19 Ogogo
• 09 Nurse
• 16 Savage

Goals

• Green 45+2

Leyton Orient

• 12 Butcher
• 02 Omozusi
• 04 Chorley
• 06 Forbes
• 07 Cox
• 08 Dawson
• 13 Daniels
• 16 Spring
• 20 Smith
• 11 Revell
• 18 Tehoue (McGleish 68)

Goals

• Revell 45
  

Orient draw Daggers in FA Cup

And news just in, Orient have drawn Dagenham & Redbridge in the 1st round of the FA Cup, to be played at Victoria Road, scene of probably our most dismal performance so far this season.

Omens on our side? Well, we've beaten the Daggers in both our FA Cup meetings, including that spectacular 5-4 victory in 1992. And Dagenham are currently bottom of League 1, meaning they've got even more incentive than we have to lose the match and "concentrate on the league", as the saying goes.