Leyton Orient 0

York City 0

THERE was no fun in the sun for Orient fans at Brisbane Road on Saturday as the O's brought the curtain down on a depressing season.

Tommy Taylor's side showed all the reasons why they have spent the year in the bottom six of division three with a display that lacked imagination and creativity.

Going forward the O's were probably slightly better than a very poor York side but that was not saying a lot.

The Minstermen have made Orient look prolific in front of goal this year and ended the campaign with only 39 goals ? equalling the lowest ever total in their history.

They showed no signs of adding to that tally in E10 and the game was almost totally devoid of goalmouth incident.

Perhaps the only talking point at the end of the match was Iyseden Christie's controversial sending off in the 59th minute.

Christie's flying challenge on York's Darren Edmondson was both late and reckless but it hardly warranted his dismissal.

The game had started quite promisingly when Barry Conlon sent a firmly struck free-kick into Ashley Bayes' midriff in the first five minutes.

But the crowd probably realised that they weren't in store for a thriller on 21 minutes when Billy Beall wasted a golden opportunity to break the deadlock.

Christie had used his pace to break away down the left and visiting keeper Alan Fettis couldn't hold his powerful low cross.

The ball fell at the feet of Beall who had space and time in front of goal but he couldn't dig it out from underneath his size nines and the chance was gone.

Conlon escaped the attention of Dean Smith to get a shot in from a tight angle on the half hour mark but Bayes collected it comfortably and that was the sum total of the first half entertainment.

Things didn't improve after the break either with only Christie's red card waking Orient from their end of season slumbers.

York had already dozed off completely by this point and Griffiths almost caught them napping just two minutes later when he sent a fierce shot just past Fettis' post.

Despite having the extra man the visitors failed to realise that they had to get into the opposition half to score and decided instead to camp out on the half-way line.

Orient were at least showing some ambition, even without the desired quality, and it would have been justice if Kwame Ampadu's shot had won the game in the 74th minute.

The midfielder slid in to meet Wim Walschaerts' cross but his effort went straight at the York keeper.

Thankfully Orient's season ended minutes later, leaving Tommy Taylor with a lot to think about over the summer months.

Orient first team coach Paul Clark summed up the spectacle, saying: 'It was a typical end of season game. There was very little quality on display with two sides who have struggled all season.'