ONE MATCH CAN CHANGE HISTORY

CONTRASTING FORTUNES: Leyton Orient are perhaps on their way up in the National League under Justin Edinburgh,

right, but Burnley, right, are flying high in the Premier League
PICTURE: TGSPHOTOS

IT is 30 years now since Bur nley beat Orient to avoid becoming the first Football League club rele gated to what was then the GM Vauxhall Conference. Instead, the club who made that dubious piece of history was Lincoln City.
That memory sprang to mind in contemplating the fixtures this weekend, with Burnley going to Brighton and Hove Albion in a Champions League place in the Premier League wh...

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