We move on to the shortest look back at events (not) on this day as we take in the leap year day of 29th February and just five matches to have taken place.

We begin in 1936 and on the day that Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the 2nd Neutrality Act in the US, there was no neutrality shown in NW2 as a home game in the London Senior Cup against Finchley which saw Golders Green cruise to a 5-1 win over their North London neighbours. Tommy Evans netted a hat-trick which was added to by goals from Mike Fallon and Bert Broadis.

Twenty-eight years later in 1964 the Greens moved above Wimbledon at the top of the Isthmian League table with a 2-0 win at struggling Bromley, moving a point clear of their South-West London counter-dons. Jimmy Quail and Peter Slade grabbed the goals.

In 1992 it was a Mark Xavier goal that proved the difference at Dagenham to stretch the gap to the bottom three to ten points and in 2016 rock-bottom Lewes came to Earlsmead in what was a crucial match for both sides in the battle against the drop and goals from Casey Maclaren and Finbarr Robins saw the Greens pick up those vital three points. Keagan Cole, aged just 16, made his debut from the bench and before the season was over had secured his place in the side as a regular face in midfield.

We finish last season and what proved to be our final home match of the 2019/20 campaign. Title favourites Truro City made the long journey to NW9 and returned with a 4-1 win, having taken advantage of some individual errors in the Hendon back-four. Shaun Lucien had levelled the scores late in the first-half with a neatly taken finish.

That final result dented what had been up to that point a perfect record on 29th February. Of five matches there have been four wins and just that single defeat with 11 goals scored and 6 conceded.