As Justin Edinburgh reflects on the 90 minutes he has just witnessed, red lights which adorn the cranes towering over what will become Tottenham Hotspur’s new home glimmer on the horizon. He may be little under a mile along White Hart Lane from the ground where he enjoyed a decade as a defender, but Edinburgh is here to talk about another rebuilding project.
The 47-year-old has taken the reins at Leyton Orient, who have plummeted from the brink of promotion to the Championship to the wrong end of the National League in four years. He is at Haringey Borough, the eighth-tier part-timers who on Saturday gave Orient a scare in their first outing in the FA Trophy.