Our look back at matches on this day moves swiftly on to 7th March, the day when last season we played what turned out to be our final match of the 2019/20 campaign.

Before that we head back 95 years to 1925 and our first ever match on 7th March in which Oscar Reinke netted in a 1-1 Athenian League game away at West Norwood. Half a dozen years later and Harry Walsh and Frank Dean grabbed the goals in a Middlesex Senior Cup semi-final against Barnet at Finchley, the game ending 2-2 in front of 4,000 supporters.

11-years later on the day that Adolf Hitler repudiated the Treaty of Versailles by marching troops in the demilitarised Rhineland another Middlesex Senior Cup tie took place, this time against Finchley at The Avenue Ground and the visitors came away with a 3-1 win, Fred Boston grabbing the Golders Green goal. Moving ahead into 1942 at as 15 Spitfires reached the island of Malta, an RAF team knocked Golders Green out of the Middlesex Red Cross Cup, also by a 3-1 scoreline as Roy Stroud netted the only goal for the hosts.

Stroud netted 11-years later as Barnet once again provided the opposition in a 1953 Athenian League match away from home. Again the two sides couldn’t be separated, 1-1 the score on this occasion. Victory was finally tasted in 1959 as a London Senior Cup tie took the Greens to Carshalton Athletic where two goals from Miles Spector and another from Jimmy Quail secured a 3-1 win.

1964 saw David Hyde lead the way with two goals in a 4-0 win over Wycombe Wanderers in the Isthmian League, extending their lead to 4 points over Wimbledon at the top of the table, the South London Dons having two games in hand. Peter Anderson was on target in a 1970 Middlesex Senior Cup tie against Staines Town, however the Swans netted twice to conclude a 2-1 victory.

Rod Haider grabbed the only goal of a 1978 Isthmian League Cup tie against Harrow Borough on the day that the Belgian baron Charles Bracht was kidnapped and three years later in 1981 Alan Cosby grabbed the Hendon goal in a 1-1 draw with Slough Town at Claremont Road.

Each of the four years from 1987 up until 1990 saw matches on 7th March, the run beginning at Worthing where Andy Smith and Neil Wolstenholme netted in a 2-0 win, this on the day that Sunil Gavaskar became the first man to break the 10,000 run barrier in test match cricket and a year later in 1988 Smith grabbed two goals along side another from Dermot Drummy in a 3-1 success over Croydon.

A year later in 1989 Farnborough Town came to Claremont Road and returned to Hampshire with a 1-0 win on the day that Iran severed diplomatic relations with the UK over the Salman Rushdie novel, The Satanic Verses. Then, in 1990, Brentford came to Claremont Road in the Middlesex Charity Cup and overcame their Non-League hosts 1-0.

In 1998 a visit to Chesham United ended in a thorough 4-1 hammering, Tony Kelly grabbing the Hendon goal and 11-years later as Neymar was making his debut for Santos at the age of just 17, Gary Noel continued is one-man vendetta against the Greens during the 2008/9 season with all four Harrow Borough goals in a 4-2 win for the home side at Earlsmead. James Parker and Jamie Busby netted for the Greens but to no avail.

Another regular thorn in Hendon’s side, Charlie Moone, grabbed both goals for Hampton & Richmond Borough in a 2-2 draw at the Beveree in 2015, Aaron Morgan and Kezie Ibe scoring for the Greens before a superb strike from the returning Khale Da Costa late on provided a much needed 3 points for Gary McCann’s side in a rearranged league match against Billericay Town at Silver Jubilee Park, the original match having been abandoned due to fog a couple of weeks previously with the Greens also ahead.

We end a year ago today and a 1-1 draw at Walton Casuals which, as it turned out, brought the season to a premature halt. Joe White gave the Greens the first half lead that was cancelled out after the break by Jerson dos Santos.

19 matches on March 7th have seen just the six wins, six draws and seven defeats with 28 goals scored and the same number conceded.