Our look back at on-field action from matches on 20th March begins in the club’s first season and a Finchley & District League Division 3 fixture at home to Johnsons Athletic in which Christ Church Hampstead recorded a 3-0 win to further increase their chances of a title at the first attempt.

11-years later in 1920 Watford sent a side to The Avenue Ground for a friendly and returned with the spoils, winning 3-2 and then in 1926 an Athenian League match against Cheshunt ended in a 3-1 defeat.

Moving ahead to 1943 and two goals from Roy Stroud helped Golders Green to a 3-0 Middlesex Red Cross Cup win over Wealdstone, the third goal was added by Cyril Goodchild, this on the day that Nazi troops massacred the inhabitants of the Greek town of Kalavryta. Five years later in 1948 Stroud was on target once again, this time along with A Price and Bob Avis as the Greens defeated Finchley 3-2 in the semi-final of the Middlesex Charity Cup and set up a final against Hayes.

John Bartholomew and Micky Stewart were on target in a 1954 Athenian League win against Walton & Hersham at Stompond Lane and 11-years later the Isthmian League title charge remained on course as Woking were beaten 3-2 on the road. Bobby Cantwell scored twice for the Greens with Peter Slade adding the other to keep the Greens ahead of Enfield at the top of the table. Elsewhere on this day Martin Luther King Jr began his civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Peter Deadman scored the only goal of a 1971 Middlesex Senior Cup semi-final tie against Wembley at Vale Farm on the day that Sunil Gavaskar scored his maiden test-match century in Georgetown, Guyana and five years later in the same competition the Greens and Enfield couldn’t be separated at Claremont Road in a goalless stalemate.

A third consecutive Middlesex Senior Cup tie on 20th March in 1982 saw Hayes win 1-0 at Church Road and the cup theme remained in 1986 with a visit to Staines Town in the London Senior Cup. Goals from Steve Newing and Danny Worley saw the Greens through 2-1.

Steve Bracken grabbed the only Hendon goal in a 3-1 defeat against Slough Town in 1990 on the day that Namibia declared its independence from South Africa and three years later in 1993 Leo Fortune-West was on target in a 1-1 draw with Wokingham Town at Claremont Road.

The Berkshire-based opponents were coming thick and fast in the 1990s and the decade ended with another visit to Wexham Park to take on Slough Town, this one saw Paul Whitmarsh on target to secure a 1-1 draw and just a year later youth-team product Nathan Edwards came off the bench at Claremont Road to secure a 1-0 win against Hampton & Richmond Borough in a game that saw Dominic Gentle fail from the penalty spot twice inside a minute, his first effort being saved and his second fly over the crossbar.

2004 saw Ricci Crace come off the bench to score against Bognor Regis Town in a 2-1 win that also saw Eugene Ofori on target. Half a dozen years later Waltham Abbey completed the double over Gary McCann’s side at a sodden Vale Farm winning 2-0, Crace this time playing against the Greens.

Finally, in 2018 a visit to Wheatsheaf Lane ended in a 4-0 reverse as Johnson Hippolyte’s Staines Town side produced an outstanding performance to beat the play-off chasing Greens. This coming on the day that Ant from Ant & Dec was arrested for drink driving.

Off the 17 matches to have been played on 20th March there have been to date nine wins, three draws and five defeats with 24 goals being scored and 22 conceded.