Last year Arsenal won everything in sight, a clean sweep of domestic and European trophies. Manager Vic Akers was delighted to secure four triumphs from four competitions. We are, of course, talking about the Ladies team who tonight take on Everton at Leyton Orient's Matchroom Stadium to defend the first of that quartet of titles, in the FA Tesco Women's Premier League Cup Final, kick off 7:35pm. The game is also live on Sky......

QPR 1 Leyton Orient 2 Loftus Road Tuesday 14th August, 2007 It seems every time Londonist attends Loftus Road, the visitors score two. On Tuesday night John Gregory, manager of Championship side Queens Park Rangers, was left to rue the injuries, loan arrangements and appendix operations that left him with only one pair of fit strikers as his lacklustre charges struggled to chase a League Cup tie that visitors Leyton Orient, from the division......

Monday 26th March, 2007 Nationwide Conference Oxford United 2 Dagenham & Redbridge 2 Oxford. Dreaming spires, fine motor cars, seat of learning and springboard for London football teams going up in the world. Last May it was Leyton Orient fans cavorting around the Kassam Stadium. Last night it was the supporters of Dagenham and Redbridge chanting, clapping, waving and occasionally falling backwards off seats in celebration of, well, a draw as it turns out,......

That was the headline that greeted readers of Tom Duncan's column in the Newham Recorder last week. His comparison of watching a football team under perform to watching a loved one gang raped is undoubtedly the crassest and most offensive local news headline we've ever seen. The story was picked up on a Leyton Orient FC message board where fans showed their disgust at the article and rallied a bevy of complaints to the......

Now you see it, now you don’t. The surprise announcement a week ago that Leyton Orient’s Matchroom Stadium would host an international for the first time ever proved to be a touch premature as the Congolese Football Federation yesterday announced that their proposed game with Albania had been called off. Leyton Orient’s own website said: The game's promoters were unable to agree terms with the relevant authorities, leaving them with no option but to......

All go at the future Olympic venue. League One underachievers Leyton Orient are hankering for the main stadium once the games close. The 24th best side in the second-lowest league would be somewhat humble occupants of the Olympic cenrtrepiece. But the plucky little team are already proving they can punch above their weight by hosting a forthcoming international game. You’ve got to admire the spirit. Someone who doesn’t is Walter Calazacon, a tribal shaman......

As we predicted last week, amidst the South African media’s prophecies of doom, the Mandela Challenge Match against Egypt will indeed go ahead next Wednesday, 15th November at Brentford’s Griffin Park with a 7:45pm kick off. Brentford now formally acknowledge the fixture and organisers Star Meridian say one thousand tickets have already been sold in the twelve thousand capacity stadium. However, the showpiece occasion ran into unexpected competition on Tuesday when it was announced......

Chelsea Reserves 4 Fulham Reserves 0 (Recreation Ground, Aldershot - Tuesday August 29th 2006) In the modern football world somehow it doesn’t seem particularly strange that London clubs two miles apart in SW6 should arrange for their reserve sides to play a local derby 40 miles down the M3 in Hampshire. Not content with that, nominal hosts Chelsea don’t even try to pretend they’re fielding a team of reserves in the traditional sense. Their......

We were delighted to see Jimmy Bullard fire his new club, Fulham, to their first league win of the season at the weekend with a cracking free-kick. We’re putting his great start at Craven Cottage down to his people skills, demonstrated on a pre-season trip and revealed by the club’s website in the summer: Norm [goalkeeper Mark Crossley] was complaining that his room was too hot because it's over the kitchen. We were at......

Barnet players will be staring menacingly at any physio who dares set foot on the Accrington Stanley pitch on Saturday as a second point in four days was snatched away from them deep into injury time, this time at Swindon on Tuesday night. Aussie striker Royce Brownlie, making his first appearance in this country, popped up to return a cleared corner with interest from outside the area to leave Barnet once again with nothing.......

The Premiership hasn't even started but already there's a lot to say about this season's football in the capital. Tonight sees most of our professional clubs in competitive action as the six Football League sides are joined by Arsenal playing their Champions League qualifier away to Dinamo Zagreb (live on ITV, 8pm) minus the 'keeper (suspended) and half the defence from their appearance in the final three months ago as everybody continues to work......

It looks like it’s a season of extremes ahead for the capital’s Football League clubs if the predictions at www.statto.com are to be believed. The site showcases an index based on 25 years of league results and claims a 92% correlation between its forecasts and the results of actual matches. On the eve of the big kick-off the index is predicting that Crystal Palace, Millwall and Brentford will be pushing for promotion while Queens......

We were delighted last week to discover that Cherno Samba, the former Millwall youth striker once courted by Liverpool, has pitched up again in this country after a spell on the continent, trying (but sadly failing) to earn a place in Bristol City's squad for the upcoming season. We remember him with affection as the spearhead of more than one of our Championship Manager 3 sides from the top-selling computer game's heydey around the......

Now that the embers of the domestic season are dying away fans who've lived every kick of the ball these last nine months are left with a whole... fortnight... of footballing emptiness to endure between now and the start of the World Cup on Friday June 9th. Thank goodness, then, that the folks at the Barbican Arts Centre have got together with stylish popsters Saint Etienne (pictured) to present three evenings of excellent and......

"It’s better that we did it ourselves rather than rely on Northampton to do it for us." That’s how one triumphantly relieved Leyton Orient fan summed up their dramatic injury time victory at Oxford United that earned them automatic promotion regardless of whether or not Northampton could hold off Grimsby. At the end of regulation time, with the score at 2-2, the day’s theme song looked destined to be "Everybody Hurts" as a draw......

Early May sees the domestic football charabanc trundling to its terminus for another year, top deck swathed in streamers and bunting for the winners and survivors, lower deck sheltering the shellshocked who’ve slipped at the last. Few grounds in the country will witness such a nail biting conflict of triumph and despair as the Kassam Stadium in Oxford where the home team must win to retain league status while our very own Leyton Orient......

At the weekend London maintained its record of having got at least one team to every FA Cup final played since the venue moved from Wembley to the Welsh capital when the ‘Appy Ammers reached the May 13th showdown much to the delight of West Ham legend Sir Trevor Brooking (pictured) who stooped to conquer Arsenal with the winning header in 1980, the last time the Upton Park side captured the trophy. These days......

Barring emergencies, Football League managers will now have to make do with what they’ve got for the rest of the season as the deadline for loan signings passed yesterday. Only a few London clubs were at the last minute bargain counter and by far the most well-known player involved was 36 year old former England international Paul Warhurst who’ll be spending the rest of the season trying to help Barnet secure their place in......

While the Football League and Premiership big boys continue their high profile campaigns the Londonist spotlight falls this weekend on two battles for non-league cup glory. Boreham Wood’s Meadow Park ground hosts Woking in the first leg of their FA Trophy semi-final on Saturday at 3pm. The remarkable thing about this fixture is that, while Woking currently lie 10th in the Nationwide Conference, Boreham Wood are nine points clear at the top of the......

The following is coming from a purely hetrosexual male persepctive, with apologies to our gay and female readers. It's written for the benefit of any single males who've managed to secure a date for tonight with a woman that they are pretty keen on and would very much like to impress, but can't think of where to go. We're probably pitching this to a minority audience, but hell, if we help just one soul......

You probably hadn't noticed, but our (almost) world-famous Friday Football Preview has been enjoying a rather extended Christmas break. We tried to convince Editro that this absence was actually a protest to the Premier League, aimed at highlighting the benefits of bringing in a contintental-style winter break, but he was having none of it. Recognising our inherent laziness, he's ordered us to put our Xmas presents back in the toybox and get back to......

As regular readers will know, we at the Londonist love comics. So you can only imagine our excitement when this week's Beano found it's way to the Londonist sports desk featuring none other than the mighty Queens Park Rangers. Not only are the R's second in Division Two, but this week we find they've been playing Beano Town. Of course, we won't tell you what happened - you'll have to buy it to find......

Crystal Palace, QPR, Millwall, and Watford began their Division Two campaigns at the weekend. Combined total of points gained: 1. Not the best of starts then, but a quick opportunity for redemption tonight. In theory at least. The Palace have a tricky tie tonight away at Wolves. Glenn Hoddle's men started the season as they ended much of last season, with a draw. You know, of course, what happened to the Eagles on Saturday......

So that's it then for Divisions Two, Three and Four. Except for Brentford and West Ham who have both made it into the play-offs. For West Ham it's a case of déjâ vu. Another year in the play-offs, another year up against Ipswich Town. The Hammers got there thanks to a 2-1 win away at Watford. Anton Ferdinand scored the opener before half time, before the over-fussy referee awarded West Ham with a penalty......

This weekend could very well turn out to be the most important weekend of the season for many London sides. For a start there's Charlton at home to Bolton, where any result other than a win for the Addicks will surely end their chances of getting European football next season. Come on you Addicks! Another club who'll be hoping for a Charlton win are Tottenham. A Bolton defeat and a Spurs win away against......

Easter Bank Holiday weekend, then. Traditionally the weekend of the football calendar when promotion challengers get ready to either strengthen their cause or weakly limp out, and similarly those sides at the bottom attempt to make that final push for safety. Traditionally, but not this year, or at least not for the top two divisions anyway as the Easter fixture-fest gave way to International games (the Czech Republic beat Finland 4-3 by the way).......

This week's London Premiership derby sees relegation-threatened Crystal Palace at home to mid-table certainties Tottenham. The reverse fixture a couple of weeks ago produced a 1-1 draw with Defoe scoring for Spurs and (quelle surprise) Andy Johnson scoring for the Eagles. Similarly both teams will be depending on their main strikers for this one. Meanwhile the Mourinho/Wenger/Ferguson yawn-fest continues apace this week with the Chelsea boss dis'ing Fergie's wine cellar, Ferguson saying that Wenger......