Orient made a promising start to the season with five straight wins but have since slumped to seventh in the table after winning just twice in the last 12 league games.
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Leyton Orient have been “punished” for their 3-1 defeat at Hartlepool United by being holed up in a plush hotel for the past week.
It’s not a particularly cheap ploy – the club’s players and staff are staying at the £100-a-night Marriott Hotel in Waltham Abbey, where they have been housed since Sunday evening following the 3-1 defeat to Hartlepool.
Hendon backed the decision publicly but Standard Sport understands a number of the squad are less than pleased they can not spend evenings at their own homes, even though they are allowed to leave the hotel for set periods to visit friends and family.
I wouldn’t want to be the one paying the bill.
“It helps team bonding”. When the owner suggested it I thought ‘why not try something different?’
Football operations manager Vito Miceli, football advisor Gianluca Romano and chief executive Alessandro Angelieri are the other staff members who have been forced to stay at the hotel.
The squad have been travelling together to and from their Chigwell training ground, five minutes drive away, by coach.
If we win 4-0 or 5-0 on Saturday, the owner might ask us to move here permanently.
“We continued to play well in the first half, Charlie Grainger never had a save to make, but the second one has deflected in off “Dunney’s” shin and then we are open trying to get back into the game”.
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Becchetti has had four different managers in that time with ex-West Ham coach Hendon his most recent appointment. If we get a good result against York we might stay there to the end of the season. “There are plenty of army camps I know about in deep, dark woods if we wanted to do that”.
