The Greatest Goal I Ever Saw… Alex Revell vs Leyton Orient, 2014

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Ahead of Orient’s FA Trophy final this weekend, Si Hawkins recalls an altogether more painful memory when everything changed for the O’s

Alex Revell Rotherham Leyton Orient

Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up when the opposition scores a screamer – even when it’s a familiar face gleefully mangling his former club’s immediate future.

For Leyton Orient supporters, Alex Revell’s long-range volley for Rotherham in the 2014 League One Play-Off Final began a spiral that would send the O’s spinning out of the league – and almost out of business. Heads were in hands for the next few seasons.

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Si Hawkins
Si Hawkins

A long-serving FourFourTwo contributor – first piece, Peter Kay on the John Smiths “Ave It!” ad, 2002 – Si Hawkins has reported for FFT from Dubai and New York to Norway and Swindon, talked football with Cantona, Lineker and the Chuckle Brothers, and once attempted football-based stand-up comedy, with predictable results. Elsewhere, Si has written for The Guardian, BBC, New European, Vice, numerous in-flight publications, and – perhaps most prestigiously – the Leyton Orient Matchday Magazine.