Daily Mail

ONLY 1,916 SAW LAST LEAGUE GAME THERE!

- JAMES RESTALL

TOMORROW will not be the first league match held at Wembley. Leyton Orient, then Clapton Orient, played two games in 1930 while their Lea Bridge Road home was closed for rebuilding. Tottenham will envy Orient’s record — they won both games — but not their crowds. Only 8,319 watched the first game, a 3-0 victory over Brentford (above), before bad weather was blamed for just 1,916 showing up for a 3-1 win over Southend two weeks later.

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