As we move on to look at matches that have taken place on 21st March across the history of Hendon Football Club today’s review is a piece in three movements. An appalling start, a slightly improved middle section and a triumphant ending.

In 1923 as the US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses to recognise the USSR a visit to Southall in the Middlesex Senior Cup ended in despair as the West Londoners knocked Hampstead Town out of the competition, winning 3-0. Just two years later on the day that Murrayfield stadium opened in Edinburgh, Enfield were held to a 1-1 Athenian League draw with Cecil Wise on target.

It was back to Southall in 1931, this time in a Middlesex Charity Cup semi-final and a tie in which neither side was able to find the net and then five years later in 1936 a visit to Finchley at the quarter-final stage of the competition saw George Bucci grab the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win to set up a semi-final against Hayes.

In 1953 Arsenal sent a side to Claremont Road to contest the Will Mather Cup and returned with both silverware and a 2-0 win, a scoreline that was emulated by Leyton half a dozen years later in the Athenian League also at Claremont Road.

The Greens’ Isthmian title hopes took a dent in 1964 as Enfield won 1-0 at Southbury Road meaning that only two goals had been scored in the club’s first seven fixtures on 21st March. That finally changed in 1967 as two goals from Danny Lakey and another from Micky Salter saw the Greens to a 3-2 win over Dulwich Hamlet.

Three years later in 1970 Maidstone United were beaten 2-0 in the Isthmian League thanks to goals from John Baker and Peter Anderson and Baker was on target again just two years later as Tooting & Mitcham United went down 3-0, John Connell and Roy Butler were also on the scoresheet for the Greens.

Another visit to Enfield ended in defeat in 1978 in the Isthmian League with the E’s winning 2-0 and three years later on the day that 9-time World Grand Prix motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood is killed in a motor accident along with his 9-year old daughter, Alan Cosby’s goal secures a point against Carshalton Athletic at Claremont Road.

Four years on in 1985 Barking dished out a 2-0 beating in the Isthmian League and then in 1987 Neil Wolstenholme and substitute Danny Worley grabbed the goals in a 2-0 success over Hayes at Claremont Road laying the foundations for the successful finale to this piece.

In 1992 Kingstonian were well beaten 4-1 at Claremont Road thanks to strikes from Colin Sowerby, Marc Das, Uche Egbe and Adam King before Frank Murphy’s side went one better in 1998 against Yeading with Paul Kelly, Tony Lynch, Freddie Hyatt and Paul Whitmarsh (2) netting in a 5-0 success.

The next fixture on 21st March occurred in 2009 in which goals from Peter Dean and Craig Carby (then known as Craig Vargas) secured a 2-1 win over Horsham before the Hendon juggernaut continued rolling in 2015 at Billericay Town, a notoriously difficult place to get a result, where goals from Kezie Ibe and another Andre Da Costa wonder strike secured a 2-0 win.

Of the 18 matches to have been played on 21st March to date, nine have been won with three draws and six defeats. 26 goals have been scored and 18 conceded – a paltry 2.44 goals per game.