[1] He had a peculiar crouching style, huddled over the ball with his body arched forward at a seemingly impossible angle as he was a hunchback.
[1] However, despite this at 5 ft 6 he was a pacey winger whose major strength was his crossing and his ability to track back and help out the defence which was unheard of in the 1940s.
[1] Whilst in Northern Ireland he played with Linfield where he won a number of honours.
[1] However the team started to split up and with new players being brought in Ormston left at the age of 32 for Hereford United and later played for Stafford Rangers and Runcorn.
[1] Ormston spent time recuperating at Loggerheads sanatorium in Shropshire before becoming landlord at the Fountain Head in Hanley and later worked in the offices of a colliery.