As we edge closer to the end of February today’s look back on this day in history takes us to 25th February and a day that has produced a miserly 2.15 goals per game across 20 matches. If you want goals, today is not the day for it.

The tone was set in a 1922 Athenian League match at Kingstonian in which Stan Briscoe scored the only goal of the game to secure a 1-0 win and then 6-years later in 1928 another visit to leafy Surrey in the Athenian League to visit Redhill ended 1-1, Billy Neill grabbing the Hampstead goal.

A 1933 Amateur FA Senior Cup replay against Cambridge Town at Claremont Road hinted at better things to come as P Rees. Ronnie Rowe, Bert Broadis and Jimmy Spalton netted a goal apiece in a 4-1 win. The goals also flowed in 1939 as Sutton United triumphed in the FA Amateur Cup at Gander Green Lane with a 4-2 win, Ron Graves and Bob Thomas scoring for Golders Green and this occurring as the first Anderson air-raid shelter went up in a back garden in Islington. Another portent of things that lay ahead.

11-years later in 1950 the Greens made another visit to Gander Green Lane, this time in the Athenian League and returned with a chastening 4-0 defeat to their name and a further 6-years on in 1956, as Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th Communist Party Congress of the USSR in Moscow, the two sides met yet again, this time at Claremont Road and goals from Miles Spector and Jeff Darey secured a 2-1 win.

In 1961 on the day current chairman Simon Lawrence was born, it was back to Surrey and another Athenian League match with Redhill that saw a goal from Peter Mathews secure a 1-1 draw before goals from Tony Harding (2) and Dave Swain in 1967 saw the Greens to a 3-0 win over Leatherhead in an Amateur Cup quarter final as they looked to make it three final appearances at Wembley Stadium in a row.

A couple of years later as the Beatles began sessions to record their final studio album, Abbey Road, a visit to Southbury Road to play Enfield in the Isthmian league ended goalless. A 1978 FA Trophy tie against Bedford Town ended 1-1, Alan Campbell’s goal ensuring a replay on the same day that Ian Botham scored his first test century with 103 against New Zealand at Christchurch.

It was another 1-1 draw in a 1982 Middlesex Charity Cup tie against Finchley in which Dermot Drummy netted for the Greens before a 1984 visit to Hitchin Town ended in a 1-0 defeat in the Isthmian League.

Things got no better in 1987 as the day after a 3-0 defeat to Harrow Borough a weakened Hendon side went down 1-0 to Hounslow in the Middlesex Charity Cup – only Andy Smith, Danny Worley and Bob Dowie had much first team experience – and in 1989 on the day that Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 5 rounds by technical knock-out, Hendon at least managed to steady the ship following their 9-1 shoeing at Leyton Wingate with a 0-0 draw against Harrow Borough at Claremont Road.

Robbie Garvey continued his impressive goalscoring form in 1992 as a visit to Clarence Park to play St Albans City ended 1-1, this on the day that Muddy Waters was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys and a year later as Pakistan were bowled out for 43 by the West Indian attack in a One Day International, the Greens bowed out of the Isthmian League Cup at Southbury Road as Enfield strolled to a 2-0 win.

Fans had to wait for a decade until the next action on 25th February and it was a home match against St Albans City in 2003 which saw Freddie Hyatt return to Claremont Road for the first time since three years earlier, the Saints edging a tight game with that extra little bit of quality to win 2-0.

The Greens drew another blank in 2006 as Folkestone Invicta held Gary McCann’s strugglers at arm’s length in a tedious 0-0 draw before Isaiah Rankin came off the bench at Vale Farm in 2012 to grab a late winner to beat high-flyers Lowestoft Town and move into fourth place themselves, also giving the Greens a first win on this day since 1967.

Finally, a 2017 visit to Billericay Town ended with Glenn Tamplin’s newly minted men handing out a significant 4-1 beating to the struggling Greens, Marcel Barrington’s goal nothing more than a consolation.

20 matches, then, have produced a paltry 5 wins, 8 draws and 7 defeats with only 19 goals scored (only five of which have come since that 1967 Amateur Cup win at Leatherhead, a period in which 12 matches have been played) and 25 conceded.