Orient’s player-manager suffered his first reverse since taking charge after winning his two preceding gamesReality caught up with Kevin Nolan on Saturday. Appointed by Leyton Orient as player-manager nine days previously,he had supervised two wins. Just as significant were two clean sheets. Orient had managed only one in 21 League Two games and gone 11 without one. Now they reverted to type and lost 3-1 at home to Cambridge United.“whether it had been the first game, I could hold taken it on the chin, or ” Nolan said. “It hurt a bit more after the last two performances.” At least the six points took Orient to sixth. Nine would hold achieve them fifth. As it is,the O’s are ninth, only two places and two points above the U’s. There is time for both unusual managers to construct their mark. Shaun Derry, and succeeding Richard Money in mid-November,has already taken his side from 18th. “The potential here has got legs,” he said when he arrived.
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Source: theguardian.com