Moving onto 24th March and a day that will provide many Hendon supporters with some happy memories for a large variety of reasons.
There won’t be anyone reading this able to recall as far back as 1913 but as goals from Harry Hyde and George Garlick beat Wood Green Town 2-1 in the Middlesex League to all but sew up the league title, the Netherlands won their first ever international by the same scoreline courtesy of a couple of goals from Huug de Groot.

Moving ahead a decade to 1923 a thrilling Middlesex Charity Cup tie went the way of Botwell Mission who won the tie by the odd goal in 9. Cecil Wise grabbed a hat-trick and Travers Day was also on the scoresheet but the five scored by the opponents proved to be crucial.

1945 saw plenty of action over the skies of Europe as the Allies launched the largest airborne operation to land troops across the Rhine as part of Operation Varsity and in the Herts & Middlesex County League Golders Green overwhelmed Slough United’s defence to win 5-2. Roy Stroud netted twice with Bob Gallacher, Melvyn Griffiths and G Cox also on target. Half a dozen years later Stroud was on target once again in an Amateur Cup semi-final replay against Pegasus at Crystal Palace along with Bob Avis, unfortunately though the former Oxbridge students did enough to win the tie 3-2 and deny the Greens a first Amateur Cup final appearance.

In 1956 the Greens went one better than Devon Loch in that year’s Grand National to beat Cambridge City 2-0 at Claremont Road with Jack Rawlings and Dexter Adams on target and then Peter Sells grabbed the only goal of an Athenian League match with Walton & Hersham in 1962 to secure a 1-0 win.

The club’s unbeaten start to 24th March matches ended in 1969 as a visits to Hitchin Town ended in a 2-0 reverse and exactly a year later the Canaries visited Claremont Road and returned to Hertfordshire with a 1-1 draw, Paul Collett grabbing the Hendon goal.

The Isthmian League title was clinched in 1973 with a Rod Haider goal settling a visit to Leatherhead 1-0. The Greens were so far ahead of their rivals that they still had seven league matches to play but such had been their form and consistency – they were still unbeaten in the league at this stage – that they now had an unassailable advantage at the top of the table.

Two goals from George Brooks in 1977 settled an Isthmian League Cup clash with Slough Town, the score ending 2-1 to the Greens and taking them into the last-16 of the competition and then an Isthmian League match with Bromley in 1984 saw goals galore as Dermot Drummy, Gary Allen and Peter Stapleton grabbed two goals each, Adrian Smith and Stewart Mitchell just the one apiece as the Lilywhites were hammered 8-1.

Mick Kiely grabbed a brace for himself three years later in 1987 as Farnborough Town were beaten 3-0, Iain Dowie was also on target and 1998 saw the club move into their second Full Members Cup final by virtue of a 2-1 win over Maidenhead United at Claremont Road. Junior Lewis netted as did Freddie Hyatt with a trademark free-kick to set up a final against Basingstoke Town at Chesham United.

In 2007 Dean Green was on target but his goal was not enough to prevent the Greens from falling to a 2-1 defeat at home to Boreham Wood and a year later Hampton & Richmond Borough dished out a 3-0 beating in the Middlesex Senior Cup final at Uxbridge’s Honeycroft ground, this on the day that Bhutan held their first democratic elections.

Another year on in 2009 Hastings United felt the wrath of a rampant Greens side as Jamie Busby, Glenn Garner, Sam Collins and substitute Brian Haule each netted in a 4-0 win at Vale Farm and Busby was again on target in 2012 against Carshalton Athletic in a 1-1 draw, this after Kevin Maclaren had been harshly dismissed for a second bookable offence.

We end in 2018, three years ago, and what was at that point the finest 45-minutes of football seen at Silver Jubilee Park as Glenn Tamplin’s expensively assembled side were outplayed, out-thought and out-fought by a collection of players on a fraction of those beaten. Two goals apiece from Niko Muir and Josh Walker saw the Greens race into a 4-0 lead, Jamie O’Hara’s free kick late on the only blot on the Hendon copybook. The game is as well remembered for Tamplin leaving the ground with his side 3-0 down as it is for the ruthlessness of the Greens’ outstanding performance.

18 matches on 24th March has seen 11 wins, two draws and five defeats with 43 goals scored and 24 conceded.