
Richie Wellens is on a mission at Leyton Orient this season
(Picture: Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)Looking out across Leyton Orient’s baked, browning training pitches in Chigwell, you wonder why Richie Wellens bothered taking his squad on a pre-season tour to Portugal earlier this summer.
As far as warm weather assignments are concerned, nothing the Algarve served up could have been as daunting last Tuesday at Brisbane Road, when, on London’s hottest day on record, the O’s lost 5-2 to Portsmouth in a friendly moved behind-closed-doors out of concern for supporter safety.