Lawrence Vigouroux

When signing for the O's at the start of the January 2020 transfer window, Lawrence Vigouroux was already something of a character. Most famously, two months into a loan at Swindon Town from LIverpool, he received a club fine of £50, which he decided to pay in pennies. The loan was immediately ended, then reinstated when he apologised. By the start of 2020, 'Vigs' had made well over 100 appearances for Swindon, latterly under Richie Wellens, and played for Chile's Under 20 team - he was born in London to a Chilean father and Jamaican mother. He even signed for a Chilean club, Everton, in 2019 but had not made an appearance for them when the Chilean League was called off because of social unrest, leading to Orient signing him up. Dean Brill having reverted to becoming the O's goalkeeping coach, Sam Sergeant was starting in goal but Vigs made his debut in a 3-0 win at Stevenage on February 1 and had played six successive games when Covid brought a premature shut-down to the League Two season with ten matches left. From then on he would miss just one league game in three seasons, towards the end of the League Two title win. That last campaign was a personal triumph as he began with seven clean sheets in the first ten games and finished with 24 from his 45 league games. Conceding only 34 goals in total (33 by Vigs) was a club record and another record was not conceding a goal at Brisbane Road in nine consecutive home games from the start of October until mid-February. No wonder he was so prominent in the dressing-room promotion celebrations with a rendering of the squad's favourite song 'Wagon Wheel'. Out of contract that summer, it was obvious the hugely popular keeper would be a target for clubs higher up the pyramid, and it was Burnley, newly promoted to the Premier League, who took him. Being behind Jake Trafford and Arijanet Muric, however, he did not get a first-team game and was rarely on the subs' bench. After one season he elected to join Swansea City in the Championship and immediately became their No 1.