Author

The Eddie Lewis Story:
From Manchester to Soweto

The Goal Gourmet:
The Peter Kitchen Story

Neilson N. Kaufman was born in Holborn, London on 3 October 1950. He has supported Leyton Orient Football Club for over fifty years and has served as the clubs’ Honorary Historian since 1972, when appointed by the then club chairman Brian Winston.

He is the author of nine books on the history, statistical record and players of the club, the first book was published in 1974. He stopped writing for about nine years until a detached retina operation in 1999 allowed him many months of free time, and slowly he started researching and writing again after an O’s fan Russell Coburn sent out an email to say, “Where is Neil Kaufman? We want another book published on the O’s!” So thank you, Russell.

Neil is a founder member of the Association of Football Statisticians–AFS and an honorary member of The Rec. Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation, known as R.S.S.S.F, being an international organisation whose select members include the leading football historians and statisticians from around the world.

He moved to South Africa in August 1981 and today he is a senior manager for a leading Johannesburg publishing house and is currently working on a long-term project, a book for the 125th anniversary of the English Football League, which will be out in a few years time. Covering all the clubs who have played in this league since 1888 and each clubs top players and other record Football League holders.

A list of Neilson N. Kaufman’s previous books include:

• 1974: Pictorial History, Orient Football Club
• 1981: Centenary of Orient Football Club 1881 to 1981
• 1990: The Complete Record of Leyton Orient Football Club 1881 to 1990
• 2001: Images of Leyton Orient Football Club, history of club through photographs
• 2002: The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club, profiles on every first team player (This book reached number 8 in the Sunday Times of England’s list of sporting books during 2002)
• 2004: Biography, Tommy Johnston, the club’s greatest player
• 2006: Biography: The Goal Gourmet, the story of Peter Kitchen
• 2006: The Complete Record of Leyton Orient Football Club 1881-2006
• 2008: From Manchester to Soweto, the story of Eddie Lewis

Future books planned include:

• 2009: The Images of Leyton Orient Football Club, version 2 1881 to 2009