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Heads-up football puts O’s on brink

by
The LeaguePaper Team
26 March 2017

By Warren Lucy
LEYTONOrient manager Danny Webb was left lamenting three ‘unbelievably bad goals’ as a trio of Crawley headers in nine firsthalf minutes plunged the O’s closer to the relegation abyss.
Orient started the brighter, with skipper Liam Kelly firing wide after barging his way into the box. But Crawley took the lead against the run of play on 23 minutes when James Collins headed in his 20th of the season, glancing home Josh Payne’s freekick.
Payne was the architect again moments later, lofting another freekick into the box and Joe McNerney looped a header...

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