Much has been made about Tottenham's spending (almost £150m on transfers in the last 16 months), which presumably pushes them above the Big Four in spending and leaves them second only to Manchester City.

On the surface, it's a lot of money for not a lot of success. However, keep in mind that this Tottenham side has also seen a lot of exits, some of them at fairly good prices too.

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With Southampton coming from behind at Leyton Orient today for a 2-2 draw, the Saints haven't lost a game in their last 5 in League One. In fact, Alan Pardews squad has only lost once in their last 10. Does Southampton have a chance at making the playoffs despite starting out with a 10 point deficit? Click to continue reading...

Bjorn Heidelstrom is cycling from Oslo to Cape Town and collecting signed football jerseys from all teams of all levels along the way. All these shirts will be be sewn together to form the world's largest signed football-shirt - a symbol of the unity of the football family and its solidarity with the plight of young refugees.

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A Scott McGleish goal was enough to see Leyton Orient edge past Wycombe at Adams Park.

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It is the final weekend of club action before the international break, meaning the last chance for some key U.S. national team players to get some much-needed playing time before the upcoming World Cup qualifiers vs. Honduras and Costa Rica.

Midfielder Michael Bradley looks to continue his recent run of playing time when Borussia Moenchengladbach take on Neven Subotic and Borussia Dortmund, while AC Milan defender Oguchi Onyewu looks to build on his impressive mid-week Rossoneri debut with a match against Serie A bottom-feeders Atalanta.

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It is the final weekend of club action before the international break, meaning the last chance for some key U.S. national team players to get some much-needed playing time before the upcoming World Cup qualifiers vs. Honduras and Costa Rica.

Midfielder Michael Bradley looks to continue his recent run of playing time when Borussia Moenchengladbach take on Neven Subotic and Borussia Dortmund, while AC Milan defender Oguchi Onyewu looks to build on his impressive mid-week Rossoneri debut with a match against Serie A bottom-feeders Atalanta.

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County gained a good away point from their weekend trip to the Galpharm Stadium.

Manager Gary Ablett kept faith with the starting 11 which beat Leyton Orient 2-1 the previous week, although there was 1 change on the bench where Adam Griffin replaced the injured Adam Griffin.

The Hatters started the game brightly and in a game where chances were hard to come by, could have taken the lead as early as the 48th second, when on-loan defender Paul Huntington played a perfect pass through to Nicholas Bignall, the strikers controlling touch set up the chance, but he failed to work the Huddersfield 'keeper.

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County gained a good away point from their weekend trip to the Galpharm Stadium.

Manager Gary Ablett kept faith with the starting 11 which beat Leyton Orient 2-1 the previous week, although there was 1 change on the bench where Adam Griffin replaced the injured Oli Johnson.

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County travel east to The Galpharm Stadium this weekend to face Huddersfield for the 2nd time this season, following our trip in the Carling Cup.

The Hatters will be looking to extend a run of games which has seen them lose just once in the last 6, away to Leeds.

Huddersfield will be looking to bounce back from defeat against Milwall last weekend and feature County old-boys Anthony Pilkington and Jim Goodwin.

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A second half hat-trick from League One's joint-leading goalscorer, Lee Barnard, gave Southend their first league win this season against a poor Leyton Orient side.
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A move that could help stuttering career.

Sky Sports sources understand Portsmouth are close to signing Aston Villa full-back Nicky Shorey on a season-long loan deal. (Sky Sports)

Things have never quite worked out for Nicky Shorey at Villa Park.

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Brave east Londoners Leyton Orient went down to a fantastic Dave Kitson strike in extra time.

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Bad luck for Matt Derbyshire, whose permanent deal at Olympiacos in Greece has got off to a bad start. The former Blackburn Rovers man picked up an abdominal injury during the pre-season and is out until sometime next month, as he has needed surgery. We wish him a speedy recovery. It's three games and two points [. Click to continue reading...

It's the gash that keeps on gushing, so it seems. Last Wednesday -- despite all the this one matters only for them and not us placebos given -- managed to hurt, well...like a motherfucker, truthfully. It's Mexico, after all. So deep had the wounds felt, they managed to suffocate an altogether joyous announcement, and perhaps too what would have been a modest sedative. Click to continue reading...

On Saturday The Real Latics travelled to Brisbane Road to play Leyton Orient and won 2-1, last night (Tuesday) The Real Latics returned to the Capital this time to play Millwall at The New Den.
Unfortunately Millwall won 2-0. For the full match report, click here
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CHELSEA
Manager: Carlo Ancelotti
Last season in the Premier League: 3rd, 83 points (25 wins, 8 draws, 5 defeats)
Summer moves
In: Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow, £18m), Daniel Sturridge (Man City, to be determined by tribunal), Ross Turnbull (Middlesbrough, free)
Out: Franco Di Santo (Blackburn, loan), Jimmy Smith (Leyton Orient, free), Ben Sahar (Espanyol, £1m), Frank Nouble (West Ham, nominal), Ryan Bertrand (Reading, loan), Tom Taiwo (Carlisle, loan), Lee Sawyer (Southend, loan)
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County will take on Cheshire Neighbours Crewe in the first round of the Johnson's paint trophy.

The tie will be held at The Alexandra Stadium formerly known as Gresty Road.

The tie will take place on the week commencing August 31st.

Below is the Rest Of The Draw.

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There was a very quiet start to the Premier Soccer League season for Moroka Swallows, who drew 0-0 with Golden Arrows. Technical Director Eddie Lewis, formerly of West Ham United and Leyton Orient, was said to be have been pleased with the clean sheet, if not the result. Another former West Ham player who is [. Click to continue reading...

The latest news coming from Scottish Premier Division club Aberdeen suggests that former Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Toronto FC man Rohan Ricketts is in line to sign for the club. Ricketts, who has been without a club since being released by the MLS side in June, has impressed on trial at the Dons, looking lively [. Click to continue reading...

Seems unlikely to me.

LIVERPOOL plan to monitor Reading striker Simon Church during the season with a view to signing him next year.

Former Liverpool boss Roy Evans has spoken to Rafa Benitez about the talented captain of Wales Under-21s.

Evans, who is the Wales assistant boss, rates Church, 20, highly and has told Benitez to keep an eye out for him in the Championship.

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League One 2009-10 Predictions

1. Leeds
2. Norwich
3. Charlton
4. Huddersfield
5. MK Dons
6. Millwall
7. Colchester
8. Southampton
9. Southend
10. Oldham
11. Brentford
12. Tranmere
13. Brighton
14.

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Cambridge United are again on the lookout for another manager after Martin Ling left his position by mutual consent, just 9 days into the job. Cambridge released a statement at 2.00pm on Tuesday afternoon stating irreconcilable differences between Ling and chairman George Rolls as the reason why the former Leyton Orient manager has departed the club.

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The following players have been known to have played abroad during the past 12 months, but have since disappeared. There are also players I am looking for some further information on, in an effort to track their careers and ensure whether or not they should be on Les Rosbifs. I would be extremely grateful for [. Click to continue reading...

Can't you take a hint?

Mr Ashley, the season is less than a week away and your club looks in more of mess than ever. This must be the worse of worse nightmares for every Newcastle fan no manager, poor players and no buyer in sight. The talk of failed takeover after failed consortium hinders any sale of Newcastle United Football Club as the season lays a week away from the first challenge at The Hawthorns, in the shape of promotion hopefuls West Bromwich Albion.

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Highly-rated Arsenal fullback Kerrea Gilbert hasn't joined Leyton Orient, contrary to reports. Since 2006, the 22-year-old has been out on loan spells at Cardiff City, Southend United and most recently, Leicester City. But despite reports on another Arsenal blog, Gilbert hasn't been signed by League 1 side Orient and he didn't play 45 minutes of [. Click to continue reading...

A number of new additions have cropped up in recent days too, primarily in Scotland as I have worked at ensuring the list is up-to-date for the four divisions north of the border. Someone who has not been mentioned yet is new Celtic manager Tony Mowbray. The former Middlesbrough and Celtic defender, who has previously [. Click to continue reading...

Tempting as it is to jump on Newcastle's 6-1 defeat to Leyton Orient as yet another sign that the club from Tyneside is sinking faster than the Titanic, I think to do so would be entirely misguided. Oh, don't get me wrong, I feel that Newcastle have a lot of work to do to halt [...] Click to continue reading...

First there was relegation from the Premiership to the Championship, then last Saturday the 'Toon' were stuffed 6-1 by Leyton Orient and today the proposed take-over of St James' Park fell through.
Can things get any worse?
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There was a crisis meeting held by Newcastle United players following the dramatic and awful 6-1 defeat against Leyton Orient on Saturday. Jose Enrique speaks out about meeting and loss today That fact is revealed today in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle by Jose Enrique. Current man in charge Chris Hughton banned his players from speaking to the press [. Click to continue reading...

Well somewhat predictably, one of the top stories today has been United's 6 -1 hammering by lowly Leyton Orient, a game which I attended and wrote a match report about. Our caretaker manager, Chris Hughton was right to describe the game in the post match interview as "disappointing and embarrassing" , with Colloccini, Enrique [. Click to continue reading...

We cannot be the only Newcastle fans who are wondering just how bad things are going to get on Tyneside, before somebody does something to correct the situation. Newcastle fans - where does club go from here? The 6-1 thrashing at the hands of Leyton Orient yesterday was more than an embarrassment and it shows the present squad [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle were given a 6 - 1 humiliation by the League One club Leyton Orient. Wikipedia reveals that the last time Leyton Orient were in the top league of English Football was in the 1962 - 63 season.So it's a new low as far as lows go for Newcastle.

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"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way."Newcastle United was expected to beat Leyton Orient, who was 14th in League 1 last season.Why did they lose 6-1 when they have Taylor, Geremi,Barton Duff etc playing. Most of them probably still draw a salary in excess of 50000 pounds a week. Click to continue reading...

The Police had it right, only for Newcastle United, nobody seems to be listening. If our humiliating 6-1 defeat against Leyton Orient this afternoon wasn't signal enough for Mike Ashley that he needs to get out of Toon and quick, then I shudder to think what will.

Ashley, who is holding out for 100 million pound bids, surely must be sweating now.

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Faced with the humiliation of being forced to wear THAT away kit, Newcastle's miserable summer continued as a strong Toon side lost 6-1 to League One side Leyton Orient today.
Jimmy Smith opened the scoring for Leyton Orient after just four minutes when he headed home unmarked from Sean Thornton's free-kick. Click to continue reading...