We have just learned that former player Allan Wyatt died recently. There won't be many fans who remember him playing, as he made his debut on 20 March 1958. For three seasons, Allan, who was either a centre-forward or right wing, barely played - though he did score for the Greens in the Middlesex Charity Cup final defeat to Finchley in September 1958, a match held over from the previous season. In those three seasons, he played just seven first-team matches, but did score three goals.

In the 1960-61, he was a semi-regular in almost half of the matches, 14 Athenian League and six cup ties, and he managed nine goals in that time, including a double away to Hayes and a hat-trick at Claremont Road against Finchley. After leaving Hendon, he spent some seasons at Harrow Borough, where he played and later managed the club. In his Hendon career, he played 27 times and bagged 12 goals, a very good scoring rate.

Wyatt was also a good club cricketer and played for many years at Southgate CC. In the 1980s he moved to New Milton on the south coast, where he captained the local cricket club and opened a couple of florists shops.

Another former player has been in touch with the club, in happier circumstances. Tony Hall, a left-half or left-back, was just 17 years old when he played three times for the Greens in the 1959–60 season, coincidentally with Wyatt in a 2-0 Athenian League defeat against Hitchin (it was Hall's second appearance, his first being a 6-0 Middlesex Charity Cup defeat at Enfield and the last a 1-1 League draw away against Hayes). He now lives in Australia, as he has done for more than 50 years, and he sends his best wishes to the club, following us thanks to friends still in England.

(David Ballheimer)