McAnuff Must Love The Ricoh

Last updated : 19 April 2015 By Jim Brown

Geoff Moore came up for an amazing statistic after the Leyton Orient home defeat recently. He pointed out that Orient’s winger Jobi McAnuff has played eight times at the Ricoh Arena and never been on the losing side.

Since 2005 he has played there for Crystal Palace, Watford, Reading and Leyton Orient and incredibly been on the winning side six times with two draws.

He has scored twice, for Palace in a 4-2 win in 2006-07 and for Reading in a 3-1 win in 2009-10. It backs up the theory that the Sky Blues have struggled badly at home since the move to Longford. In fact this season will be the eighth season running that they have failed to reach double figures in home wins.

McAnuff must love playing against the Sky Blues – in the same period he has not been on the losing side to City for his home teams.

Prior to 2005 his record is not so good. Between his first game against City for Wimbledon in 2001 ,he appeared against the Sky Blues for the Dons, Cardiff and West Ham on seven occasions, winning once, drawing three and losing three.

Jobi is now 33 and his career is tailing down but since 2001-02 he has never played less than 35 league games in a season and will top that figure this campaign. It’s an impressive record that Reda Johnson must envy!