On this weekend...

31 Jan 2014

Continuing our look back through the OHAFC archives at games played on this weekend last season, three seasons ago and five seasons ago...

Last Season: February 2nd 2013

No OHAFC Fixtures played

Three Seasons Ago: February 4th 2012

1st XI: Lost 5-4 after extra time away to Tonbridge in the quarter-finals of the Arthur Dunn Cup on a day when it appeared as though everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for Quentin Baker's men.

Harrow led early through Olly Hadden-Paton's header but the goalscorer and Fred Milln were both forced off with injury before half-time.

Harrow led 3-0 and 4-1 midway through the second half, but having made their final substitution, were forced to try to hang on to their lead with ten men when Harry Hoffen then limped off.

Tonbridge came back strongly, equalising with just three minutes of the ninety left.

To Harrow's credit, the ten men played strongly in extra-time and looked the better side but conceded the vital goal seven minutes from the end to extinguish hopes of a second Dunn Cup final appearance.

2nd XI: Drew 2-2 at home to KCS Wimbledon 2's, Alex Breeden and Nick Bartlett the scorers.

3rd XI: No fixture

Five Seasons Ago: January 30th 2010

1st XI: Drew 1-1 at Lancing in a creditable display with a number of regular starters unavailable. Ed Poulter scored an excellent goal to give the visitors the lead, curling in a shot from the edge of the box.

But Lancing equalised in the second half when stand-in 'keeper Alasdair Pritchard spilt a shot and saw the rebound fired past him.

2nd XI: Beat Haberdashers 6-4 away in a remarkable contest played on a dreadful surface at the Riverside Lands in Chiswick.

Bemini Soyinka scored twice in the opening quarter of an hour to give the visitors the lead and an Ed Arghebant penalty eight minutes before the break looked to have settled the contest beyond dispute.

But the appalling conditions led to a series of defensive errors and goals were soon being scored at both ends. Harrow added another three, Habs four, with the pick of the ten a long-range lob from Amir Shah on the right wing with three minutes to go, to confirm the win.

3rd XI: No fixture

Other notable world events - February 1st:

  • 32nd day of the Gregorian calendar
  • 78 days until Tour!
  • 1884 the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary is published
  • 1915 Stanley Matthews, legendary England winger, is born
  • 1969 Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta is born
  • 1981 South African cricket captain Graeme Smith is born
  • 1982 Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player and future husband of Charlotte Church, is born
  • 1994 Harry Styles of One Direction is born
  • 2003 space shuttle Columbia disintegrates on re-entry to Earth, killing all seven astronauts aboard
  • 2004 Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show at the Superbowl XXXVIII
  • 2013 the Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened to the public in central London

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Items to diarise immediately and action appropriately - February 1st:

  • Air Force Day in Nicaragua

  • The start of National Bird Feeding Month in the US

  • The start of LGBT History Month in the UK