[Official Site] REDS TO WEAR BLACK AT LEYTON

I pity you too to be honest. You can’t see that you’re the exact same. Their trigger is a different colour shirt, yours is reading a post about someone’s opinion on which colour shirt it should be. Neither of those things are earth shattering, are they?

 

Did the black kit ever make it to the club shop for sale?

Or was it online only and even then some preorders were cancelled due to lack of stock?

 

If it didnt make the club look tinpot it would have been an awesome competition and a way for fans to have their white shirt match worn, signed and returned to them with a certificate.

 

We've surely got more than one set of shirts though. I can't fathom why the club would communicate to us that our only set of white shirts were destroyed in a fire.

What happens if one of our players happens to swap shirts at the end of the game. Does he get his wages docked?

 

This is what I keep thinking. Fanatics is the distribution side of things but Puma manufacture it. Fanatics can't shift kit that doesn't exist

Terrible communication around the whole thing mind

 

I could be way off - but here's my guess: They have a full set plus spares, but they take the spares to games in case of blood on the shirt etc. so they would all have been destroyed in the fire.

 

Or this lot from 'Dodgeball'

 

Guessing they have a few changes of kit but they were all on the bus.

Plus side to all this is that the two teams do look really cool, one in all white, the other in all black.

 

Ahh I forgot they used to be 'just' Orient, when we played them back in about season '81, I think.
This reminds me now that they came up in a quiz question in the 80s.. Name 3 English football league clubs, who's name starts with the letter O.