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Leyton Orient director of football Martin Ling talks us through his football memories…

First game you watched live? My dad’s mate took me to Upton Park when I was about ten. West Ham were playing, obviously, but I don’t know what the match was. I think it was the 1975-76 season, the year after they won the FA Cup. It was an evening game because the floodlights were on, and it was like the theatre of dreams for me -Iwas brought up in Newham, which is where West Ham is, and I was mad keen on football at that age. I went back a lot between the ages of 13, 14, 15, be...

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