On this weekend...

7 Feb 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 9th 2013

1st XI: Lost 5-2 at home to Lancing in a game that was as good as over after the opening quarter of an hour. The visitors scored three unanswered goals as they overpowered an under-strength Harrow team.

The Blues fought their way back into the game and scored either side of the break through Piers Bourke and Nick Bartlett, who turned in the rebound after Defty's penalty had initially been saved.

But Lancing confirmed the points with two breakaway goals in the final fifteen minutes to end any remote chances Ed Poulter's men had of challenging for the League title.

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2nd XI: Beat Forest 3's 5-1 in the opening round of the Junior League Cup. In a one-sided affair, all six goals were scored before the break: Bemini Soyinka and Max Curry both scored twice, with skipper Arjun Chopra adding a rare goal himself.

The second half again saw Harrow push forwards but unable to convert any of their numerous chances, including from the penalty spot - Soyinka's hat-trick effort was saved after Curry had been brought down inside the box.

3rd XI: No fixture

Three Seasons Ago: February 11th 2012

No OHAFC fixtures

Five Seasons Ago: January 6th 2010

1st XI: Won 1-0 at Old Brentwoods thanks to a scruffy last-minute winner from Olly Hadden-Paton. The game was played in dreadful conditions, heavy rain and on a boggy surface and looked for long periods as if it would end goalless.

But in the final few seconds the young striker latched onto a loose ball inside the box to turn and screw the ball into the far corner past a stationary 'keeper.

Little did the team know it at the time, but the result was to prove pivotal in helping to secure the League title three months later.

2nd XI: Lost 2-1 at Forest 4's in the Junior League Cup in a see-saw encounter that could have gone either way.

Centre-half Jack Orr-Ewing scored midway through the first half to give the visitors the lead but Forest hit back minutes after the break.

Arjun Chopra had a goal disallowed for offside with twenty minutes remaining and Woolley hit the bar with a thumping shot but it was the home side who snatched the win and a passage into the quarter-finals when they scored right at the death.

3rd XI: No fixture

Other notable world events - February 8th:

  • 39th day of the Gregorian calendar
  • 70 days until Tour!
  • 1587 Mary Queen of Scots is executed
  • 1855 The Devils Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon
  • 1931 Actor James Dean was born
  • 1950 The Stasi, the East German Secret Police, is formed
  • 1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom
  • 1962 Spurs Chairman Daniel Levy was born
  • 1966 Bulgarian footballer Hristo Stoitchkov was born
  • 1976 Abi Titmuss, former girlfriend of Blue Peter's John Leslie, was born
  • 2007 Former Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith died

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Items to diarise immediately and action appropriately - February 8th:

  • It's the earliest day on which the Feast of Orthodoxy can fall

  • It's Nirvana Day in Mahayana Buddhism

  • The Lego Movie opens for advanced screenings in cinemas across the UK